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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Rowan Athale

Rowan Athale is known for adapting Strange but True, the book by John Searles 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.
Strange But True. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 2004 book, Strange but True
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Strange but True
John Searles, 2004
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Strange But True
Rowan Athale, 2019

Ronnie Chase died on prom night. Five years later, Melissa Moody, Ronnie’s past girlfriend, arrives at his mother’s house and says she is pregnant with Ronnie’s baby. Melissa states that the only man she has ever had sex with was Ronnie and she plays a recording of a psychic reading she received to Charlene and Philip, Ronnie’s mother and younger brother. Charlene angrily asks her to leave.