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

Forrest Gump (1994)

The film adaptation of Winston Groom’s 1986 novel Forrest Gump carves out a gorgeous narrative from the trenches of absurdity. In Groom’s novel, Forrest Gump becomes an astronaut and goes to space, where he meets an ape named Sue, crash-lands his ship in the middle of the jungle, and narrowly avoids getting devoured by rabid cannibals. A tad different from the movie, no?

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