Adena Halpern's 29 Headed to the Big Screen

Posted on August 13, 2010

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Fox is going to turn 29: A Novel by Adena Halpern into a film. John Davis will produce the movie.

The novel follows Ellie Jerome, a young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old who feels she has more in common with her twenty-nine-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, than her fifty-five-year-old daughter, Barbara. On her 75th birthday, she wishes she was 29 again. Her wish comes true and she goes on an adventure with her granddaughter. Meanwhile, Ellie's daughter and close friend believe her to be kidnapped so they set out to find her.