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By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith Jul 2, 2008

Mena Suvari assures that fans of Ernest Hemingway will not be disappointed with her upcoming big-screen adaptation of the Nobel Prize-winning author's "Garden of Eden." "There's a lot of preparation in bringing a book into a movie, and I feel like we did a really good job of it," says the actress, who costars in the film with British actor Jack Huston and Matthew Modine.

Mena Suvari Assures 'Garden Of Eden' a Close Adaptation (Image: Wenn)

"It's a wonderful Hemingway novel all about transformations and relationships, published posthumously and very close to Hemingway's own life. It was pretty much a personal account, which not a lot of people know. What we shot was really close to it."

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Suvari also admits that "Garden of Eden" was a "very emotional piece to tackle. It's a very sexual film about a woman who starts to question herself and her marriage."

The "American Beauty" actress, who is currently on the big screen playing a young woman who waits for her accident victim to die in "Stuck," continues to prove she's not one to shy away from those intense roles. Up next for her is the Lifetime original movie called "'Sex and Lies in Sin City.' It's based on the book 'Murder in Sin City: The Death of a Las Vegas Casino Boss,' about the Ted Binion murder," she says. "I play Sandy Murphy, his girlfriend." That would be the notorious girlfriend who in 1998, conspired with her new lover, Rick Tabish, to murder Binion,

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