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

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain took home a plethora of literary accolades when it originally ran in the New Yorker in 1997. While the National Magazine Award for Fiction was well-deserved, Ang Lee’s adaptation won him an Oscar for Best Director. If the Academy Award-winning score doesn’t bring you to tears, Jake Gyllenhaal and Heather Ledger’s heartbreaking performances certainly will.

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