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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Jason Freeland

Jason Freeland is known for adapting Brown's Requiem, the book by James Ellroy 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.
Brown's Requiem. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the 1981 book
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Brown's Requiem
James Ellroy, 1981
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Brown's Requiem
Jason Freeland, 1998

Fritz Brown is a disgraced former LAPD officer now working as a private investigator, part-time repo man and struggling on-the-wagon ex-alcoholic. Fritz is hired by an obese caddy named Freddy ‘Fat Dog’ Baker, supposedly to keep tabs on Fat Dog’s sister, Jane. In the course of his investigation, Fritz learns that Jane is indeed living with an elderly millionaire.