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
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Fight Club
4.2
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+5
Forrest Gump
4.2
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+8
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4.2
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+6
The Vampire Diaries
3.6
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+4
The Shawshank Redemption
4.5
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The Notebook
3.8
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The Handmaid's Tale
4.3
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+3
The Silence of the Lambs
4.5
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+5
Howl's Moving Castle
4
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+3
Practical Magic
3
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+5
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
3.4
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Jaws
4.1
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+6
Jurassic Park
4.2
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+5
Crazy Rich Asians
3.4
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+5
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
3.5
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+5
Divergent
3.3
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+6
The Princess Diaries
3
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+8
Big Little Lies
4.3
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+4
The Lovely Bones
3.3
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+5
Little Fires Everywhere
3.8
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+3
Normal People
4.5
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+2
Bridget Jones's Diary
3.5
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+5
Brokeback Mountain
3.6
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+6
The Summer I Turned Pretty
3.6
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+1