What's the best movie based on a book?
2006-07-22 02:39:54 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Gone With the Wind
2006-07-22 02:47:03 · answer #1 · answered by m15 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming that by best you mean faithful to the original book & not just the Best movie that was in some way based on a book, then Sense & Sensibility (1995) was an outstanding adaptation - the cartoon for Watership Down (1978) was also very faithful
2006-07-22 09:45:17 · answer #2 · answered by kwz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite-
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream / Hunter S. Thompson
Others I like, include-
About Schmidt (2002) About Schmidt / Louis Begley
Beautiful Mind, A (2001) Beautiful Mind, A / Sylvia Nasar
Big Fish (2003) Big Fish: A Novel of Mystic Proportions / Daniel Wallace
Billy Bathgate (1991) Billy Bathgate / E. L. Doctorow
Blow (2001) Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All / Bruce Porter
Born on the Fourth of July (1989) Born on the Fourth of July / Ron Kovic
Casino (1995) Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas / Nicholas Pileggi
Children of the Corn (1984) Children of the Corn (story) / Stephen King
Constant Gardener, The (2005) Constant Gardener, The / John Le Carré
Dancer Upstairs, The (2002) Dancer Upstairs, The / Nicholas Shakespeare
Dead Man Walking (1995) Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States / Helen Prejean
Devil's Advocate, The (1997) Devil's Advocate, The / Andrew Neiderman
Empire of the Sun (1987) Empire of the Sun / J. G. Ballard
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Traumnovelle / Arthur Schnitzler
Fight Club (1999) Fight Club / Chuck Palahniuk
Forrest Gump (1994) Forrest Gump / Winston Groom
Frida (2002) Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo / Hayden Herrera
Full Metal Jacket (1987) Short Timers, The / Gustav Hasford
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The (2005) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The / Douglas Adams
Iris (2001) Elegy for Iris / John Bayley
K-PAX (2001) K-PAX: A Novel / Gene Brewer
Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Last Temptation of Christ / Nikos Kazantzakis
Leaving Las Vegas (1995) Leaving Las Vegas / John O'Brien
Manchurian Candidate, The (2004) Manchurian Candidate, The / Richard Condon
Memento (2000) Memento Mori (story) / Jonathan Nolan
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil / John Berendt
Newton Boys, The (1998) Newton Boys, The / Claude Stanush
Rising Sun (1993) Rising Sun / Michael Crichton
Runaway Jury (2003) Runaway Jury / John Grisham
Schindler's List (1993) Schindler's List / Thomas Keneally
Shawshank Redemption (1994) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (story) / Stephen King
Shining, The (1980) Shining, The / Stephen King
Sin City (2005) Sin City / Frank Miller
Thin Red Line, The (1998) Thin Red Line, The / James Jones
Trainspotting (1996) Trainspotting / Irvine Welsh
U Turn (1997) Ici Commence l'Enfer / John Ridley
Untouchables, The (1987) Untouchables, The / Eliot Ness
V for Vendetta (2006) V for Vendetta / Alan Moore
Here's a huge list of movies based on books
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/
2006-07-22 10:51:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
#1 To Kill a Mockingbird - one of the best movies ever. Greg Peck was perfectlyy cast as Atticus Finch.
#2 Shawshank Redemption
#3 The Green Mile
#4 Stand by Me
#5 Carrie
2006-07-22 13:13:15 · answer #4 · answered by A Guy Named Joe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vertigo (1958), Alfred Hitchcock's profound, deeply personal, masterfully arranged and beautifully textured suspense masterpiece, which was based on the novel "Sueurs froides: d'entre les morts (Cold Sweat: From Among the Dead)" by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
2006-07-22 09:53:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Kill A Mocking Bird
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2006-07-22 09:42:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Defantely Lord of the Rings. I love that movie. Frolo just seems always worried, and I don't like that. Also, bringing the character Golam to life was very fasinating
2006-07-22 10:47:54 · answer #7 · answered by Ana Semphrey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jurassic Park
2006-07-22 09:48:34 · answer #8 · answered by rules27 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of Mice & Men - 1938 with Burgess Meredith & Lon Chaney, Jr.
2006-07-22 09:48:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well one wonderful movie based on a book....it's One flew over a cuckoo's nest, with Jack Nicholson...and i saw that it hasn't been mentioned...
2006-07-22 14:21:14 · answer #10 · answered by Icarus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋