Movies Adapted from Novels That Ended up Being Better Than the Book

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Darren Aronofsky is known for his deeply haunting films that linger with you long after the credits have rolled. However, of all Aronofsky’s work, Requiem for a Dream is the most brutally unsettling. Based on the 1978 novel by Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream translates Selby Jr.’s work into a disturbing parable about happiness that has been found and lost.

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