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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks is known for adapting Terms of Endearment, the book by Larry McMurtry published in 2014, for cinema.
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.
Terms of Endearment
Larry McMurtry, 1975
movie vs book
James L. Brooks, 1983
Widowed Aurora Greenway keeps several suitors at arm’s length in Houston, focusing instead on her close, but controlling, relationship with daughter Emma. Anxious to escape her mother, Emma marries callow young college professor Flap Horton over her mother’s objections, moves away, and has three children.