Worst Book to Movie Adaptations
12 Book-to-Movie Adaptations So Bad the Authors Deserve Letters of Apology
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If you go looking for an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel about puritanical hypocrisy and repression . . . look elsewhere. This Demi Moore-Gary Oldman stinker (13 percent) "takes more liberties with the text than Elizabeth Berkley did with that pole in Showgirls," according to USA Today's Susan Wloszczyna.