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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Percy Adlon

Percy Adlon is known for adapting The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, the book by Carson McCullers 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.
Bagdad Cafe. Poster of the 1987 movie and cover of the 1951 book, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Carson McCullers, 1951
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Bagdad Cafe
Percy Adlon, 1987

In this surreal comedy, a varied ensemble of characters undergoes transformations as they encounter a German tourist named Jasmin at a secluded truck stop in the midst of the Mojave desert.