25 Shows and Movies Better Than the Books They're Based On

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The Princess Bride
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The Princess Bride
3.9
Fight Club
4.2
Forrest Gump
4.2
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4.2
The Vampire Diaries
3.6
The Shawshank Redemption
4.5
The Notebook
3.8
The Handmaid's Tale
4.3
The Silence of the Lambs
4.5
Howl's Moving Castle
4
Practical Magic
3.1
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
3.4
Jaws
4.1
Jurassic Park
4.2
Crazy Rich Asians
3.4
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
3.5
Divergent
3.3
The Princess Diaries
3
Big Little Lies
4.3
The Lovely Bones
3.3
Little Fires Everywhere
3.8
Normal People
4.5
Bridget Jones's Diary
3.5
Brokeback Mountain
3.6
The Summer I Turned Pretty
3.6

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