| year | starring | title | story year | author | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Jeff Goldblum | The Fly | 1957 | George Langelaan | 88%
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| 2005 | Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain | 1997 | Annie Proulx | 75%
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| 2004 | Hilary Swank | Million Dollar Baby | 2000 | F.X. Toole | 75%
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| 2000 | Guy Pearce | Memento | 2001 | Jonathan Nolan | 63%
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| 1999 | Christina Ricci | Sleepy Hollow | 1820 | Washington Irving | 63%
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| 2008 | Brad Pitt | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 1922 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 63%
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| 2013 | Ben Stiller | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | 1939 | James Thurber | 63%
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| 1968 | Keir Dullea | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1951, 1953 | Arthur C. Clarke | 50%
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| 1950 | Bette Davis | All About Eve | 1946 | Mary Orr | 50%
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| 1950 | Toshiro Mifune | Rashomon | 1922 | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa | 50%
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| 1954 | James Stewart | Rear Window | 1942 | Cornell Woolrich | 50%
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| 1938 | Katharine Hepburn | Bringing Up Baby | 1937 | Hagar Wilde | 25%
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| 1985 | Jeffrey Combs | Re-Animator | 1922 | H.P. Lovecraft | 25%
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| 2007 | Russell Crowe | 3:10 to Yuma | 1953 | Elmore Leonard | 13%
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| 1946 | Ava Gardner | The Killers | 1927 | Ernest Hemingway | 13%
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