The movie and the book are similar in ways and different in ways too. Because i wasn't here for part of the class, i only saw the first 20 minutes of the movie. But the parts of the movie i saw, i can compare and contrast the two.

The two are similar in ways because Mitch is a reporter and he's busy with work and barely has any free time. Morrie, of course, is dying of ALS, and he loves to dance. Also, Mitch hears about Morrie on the T.V when he was flipping through the channels which is exactly how he found out about Morrie in the book. When he goes and visits Morrie, he does what he does in the book and his doing 5 things at once and pretends like he's finding his keys, when he's really finishing his conversation on the phone.

The book and the movie are different too, however. The movie is different because Mitch's wife is mad at him because he seems like he's making up ways on why he can't go see an old friend of his. She's also mad at him because he doesn't want to marry her yet because he's too busy with his job. They never mentioned that in the book, and they also don't add that she's a singer in the book either.