Barney's Version has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classic. The film, based on Mordecai Richler's acclaimed comic novel and directed by Richard J. Lewis, just screened at the Venice Film Festival and will be featured at Toronto. Paul Giamatti leads a stellar cast (Minnie Driver, Dustin Hoffman, Rosamund Pike, etc) across three decades of his extraordinary life (though he is an ordinary man), which includes three wives, an absurd father and an indulgent best friend.