Worst Netflix Original Book Adaptations
10 Netflix Book Adaptations That Totally Missed the Mark
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Even without the disturbing allegations about costar Armie Hammer that broke around the same time as this movie's release, the newest adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's classic novel is a glamorous, gothic hot mess. Rather than leaning into the gothic horror of it, the movie takes a watered-down approach and adds a hastily constructed "happy" epilogue that results in a movie that seems to have missed the whole point of the book it's supposedly adapting.