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THE*ATLANTIC: Everything You Wanted To Know About Movies Based On Self-Help Books*.

Posted by: RotoHockeyYTD2014 on Apr 04, 12:53 in response to SirWinstonNewkirk's post In today's Movie Mogul section, Mean Girls is listed as a...

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Movies Based on Self-Help Books*

But when the self-help adaptation genre returned, it returned for its most financially successful installment to date: 2004's Mean Girls, which Tina Fey adapted from a book with the marquee-unfriendly title Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughters Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence. The wry, insightful Mean Girls is the gold standard for a successful self-help book adaptation, as Fey takes the lessons from the original tome and applies them to a well-written, well-acted movies that embeds its themes deeply into both character and story.







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