| year | starring | title | novella year | author | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Audrey Hepburn | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1958 | Truman Capote | 86%
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| 2009 | Jim Carrey | A Christmas Carol | 1843 | Charles Dickens | 64%
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| 1986 | River Phoenix | Stand by Me | 1982 | Stephen King | 64%
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| 1994 | Morgan Freeman | The Shawshank Redemption | 1982 | Stephen King | 64%
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| 2002 | Tom Cruise | Minority Report | 1956 | Philip K. Dick | 50%
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| 1992 | John Malkovich | Of Mice and Men | 1937 | John Steinbeck | 50%
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| 1958 | Leslie Caron | Gigi | 1944 | Colette | 43%
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| 1990 | Anthony Quinn | The Old Man and the Sea | 1952 | Ernest Hemingway | 43%
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| 2016 | Amy Adams | Arrival | 1998 | Ted Chiang | 36%
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| 1941 | Spencer Tracy | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1886 | Robert Louis Stevenson | 36%
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| 1999 | Nicole Kidman | Eyes Wide Shut | 1926 | Arthur Schnitzler | 29%
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| 1971 | Dirk Bogarde | Death in Venice | 1912 | Thomas Mann | 21%
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| 2016 | Kate Beckinsale | Love and Friendship | 1871 | Jane Austen | 14%
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| 1954 | Dorothy Dandridge | Carmen Jones | 1845 | Prosper Mérimée | 7%
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| 2016 | Florence Pugh | Lady Macbeth | 1865 | Nikolai Leskov | 7%
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