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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Stephen Chbosky, ranked
In 1992, Charlie, who suffers from clinical depression setbacks since childhood, has been discharged from a mental health care institution. Charlie unknowingly eats a weed brownie, gets high and discloses to Sam that the year before, his best friend committed suicide.
August Pullman is a 10-year-old boy living in a brownstone in Brooklyn with his mother Isabel, father Nate, older sister Via, and dog Daisy. Auggie has been home-schooled, but as he approaches fifth grade, his parents decide to enroll him in Beecher Prep, a private school. When school starts, Auggie is ostracized, but soon forms a close friendship with Jack.
Evan Hansen, a high school student with Social Anxiety Disorder, has a therapeutic self-intended letter stolen by a classmate named Connor Murphy, who later dies by suicide. Connor’s family mistakes the letter as a letter sent to Evan by Connor. Evan inserts himself into the boy’s past, throwing him into a series of lies and confrontational events.