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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Adele D'Man

Adele D'Man appears in The Secret Lives of Dentists, the film adaptation of the book by Jane Smiley The Age of Grief, first published in 1987.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
The Secret Lives of Dentists. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the 1987 book, The Age of Grief
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The Age of Grief
Jane Smiley, 1987
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The Secret Lives of Dentists
Alan Rudolph, 2002

Married dentists David and Dana Hurst, parents to three children, find their relationship strained when David suspects Dana of infidelity. Coping with the emotional turmoil, David starts engaging in imagined conversations with a discontented patient. The family’s stress escalates as they all fall ill with the flu.