The Old Man and the Sea is a 1990 American-British adventure drama television film directed by Jud Taylor and written by Roger O. Hirson, based on the 1952 novella of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film stars Anthony Quinn, Gary Cole, Patricia Clarkson, and Joe Santos. It received mixed reviews and was nominated for three Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
There is reason to think Tom Pruitt in the 1990 TV adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea is meant to represent a HemingwayâÂÂtype figure, maybe even something like Hemingway himself (or at least a standâÂÂin). Several sources and critiques suggest that, and the movie adds this character in as sort of a framing device.
The Old Man and the Sea premiered on NBC on March 25, 1990.