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Adaptation by Thomas Leitch , Kyle Meikle LAST REVIEWED: 29 September 2014 LAST MODIFIED: 29 September 2014 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199791286-0116

Studies of cinematic adaptations—films based, as the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences puts it, on material originally presented in another medium—are scarcely a century old. Even so, particular studies of adaptation, the process by which texts in a wide range of media are transformed into films (and more recently into other texts that are not necessarily films), cannot be properly understood without reference to the specific period they were produced in. Each generation of adaptation studies has produced its own principles and orthodoxies, typically by attacking the orthodoxies and principles of the preceding generation. Adaptation studies have regularly alternated between polemics that attacked earlier assumptions in the field and readings of individual adaptations that have explored the implications of these attacks and so implicitly established new orthodoxies. The earliest work on adaptation, from Vachel Lindsay’s The Art of the Moving Picture , first published in 1915, to André Bazin’s “Adaptation, or the Cinema as Digest,” first published in 1948, grapples with the general relationship between literature and cinema as presentational modes. The second phase, focusing mostly on adaptations of individual novels to films, follows George Bluestone’s highly influential 2003 study Novels into Film , originally published in 1957, in assuming a series of categorical distinctions between verbal and visual representational modes. Most studies of individual adaptations and their sources, and most textbooks on adaptation, have been produced under the influence of these assumptions. In this third phase, Robert Stam’s 2000 article “Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogics of Adaptation” rejects the binary distinctions between source texts and adaptations; Kamilla Elliott’s 2003 book Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate deconstructs the binary distinctions between verbal and visual texts; and Linda Hutcheon and Siobhan O’Flynn’s 2012 book A Theory of Adaptation emphasizes the continuities between texts that have been explicitly identified as adaptations and all other texts as intertextual palimpsests marked by traces of innumerable earlier texts. This third phase has generated most of the leading work on adaptation theory. An emerging fourth phase is heralded by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin’s 1999 study Remediation: Understanding New Media and Lev Manovich’s 2001 book The Language of New Media . Both are inspired by the rise of the digital media that establishes every reader as a potential writer. These analysts use a Wiki-based model of writing as community participation rather than individual creation to break down the distinction between reading and writing and recast adaptation as a quintessential instance of the incessant process of textual production. A leading tendency of this fourth phase has been to use methodologies developed for literature-to-film adaptation to analyze adaptations that range far outside literature and cinema.

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Earlier than any other area of cinema studies, adaptation began to generate a substantial body of resources specifically designed for teachers, students, and academic researchers. The dominance of the case study in the second phase of adaptation studies produced an especially comprehensive and wide-ranging series of literature-to-cinema filmographies, some aiming for exhaustiveness, others for greater selectivity and more extended analysis of particular novel-to-film or theater-to-film pairs. The prominence of college courses in film adaptation generated a number of textbooks focusing on cinematic adaptation, and later a series of essays considering the larger theoretical and pedagogical issues that were raised, or that could be raised, by focusing on adaptations.

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A pre-existing work that has been made into a film. Adaptations are often of literary or theatrical works, but musical theatre, best-selling fiction and non-fiction, comic books, computer games , children’s toys, and so on have also been regularly adapted for the cinema. Adaptations of well-known literary and theatrical texts were common in the silent era ( see silent cinema ; costume drama ; epic film ; history film ) and have been a staple of virtually all national cinemas through the 20th and 21st centuries. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories (1887–1927) have been adapted in a range of national contexts but probably the most adapted author is Shakespeare, whose plays have appeared in film form as a large-budget Hollywood musical ( West Side Story (Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, US, 1961)), a historical epic set in feudal Japan ( Kumonosu-jo / Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1957)), a Bollywood musical ( Angoor (Gulzar, India, 1982)), and a children’s animation ( The Lion King (Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, US, 1994)), to name but a few. Adaptations often sit within cycles associated with a particular time and place, as with the British heritage film in the 1980s ( see cycle ). It is claimed that adaptations account for up to 50 per cent of all Hollywood films and are consistently rated amongst the highest grossing at the box office , as aptly demonstrated by the commercial success of recent adaptations of the novels of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Other varied US adaptations include: computer games ( Resident Evil (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2002)), graphic novels ( Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)), comic books ( The Avengers (Joss Whedon, 2012)); see also cinematic universe ; superhero film ), and children’s toys ( Transformers: The Last Knight (Michael Bay, 2017)). A number of films also display a certain level of self-reflexivity regarding the process of adaptation, as can be seen in Adaptation (Spike Jonze, US, 2002) and The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2012). A property ripe for adaptation is referred to as pre-sold ; older works in particular are attractive to film producers because they are often out of copyright ( see deal, the ).

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My thesis examines the expressions of the limits and possibilities of female subjectivity in the four Hollywood film adaptations of Little Women , filmed in 1933, 1949, 1994, and 2019 respectively, by combining textual and audience analysis with adaptation theory, feminist film theory, and feminist adaptation theory. In exploring the disparate femininity of female characters, the different representations of plots, and the authorship and changes of structure, I argue that the 1933 and 1949 versions present evidently conservative and patriarchal characteristics in the text, but their female subjectivity can be obtained through the complexity of emotion of the female audience of their eras. And the 1994 and 2019 versions have distinct progressive and feminist representations in their texts, but the 1994 version does not escape a patriarchal ending, while the 2019 version has a great breakthrough at the end. This project considers chronologically how female subjectivity is repressed and displayed in the four adaptations. The presentation of female subjectivity and the predicaments faced by women vary according to the context of their times, the analysis of them is important for the development of female subjectivity in the future film industry as well as the promotion of female self-consciousness in their daily lives.

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Film Adaptation: The Case of Wuthering Heights

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To talk of “using” film adaptations of novels in order to teach literature will immediately raise the hackles of all film and television critics who quite justifiably choose to focus on these media for their own sake. One of the reasons that adaptation studies has enjoyed a fairly low status among film critics is, as John Ellis notes, its employment in literary departments to encourage “recalcitrant students … to read the original novel” (qtd. Cardwell, 2002, p. 37). Ira Konisberg’s entry on adaptation in The Complete Film Dictionary actually defines it as a “subliterary discourse” designed to show that “great novels” are resistant to filming (qtd. Griffith, 1997, p. 6). While recognizing the centrality of adaptation studies to “any history of culture” interested in “the transmission of texts and meanings in and across cultures,” Mirceia Aragay also deplores the way it is “often taught in literature departments as a way of sugaring the pill of (canonical) literature for an increasingly cinema-oriented student population” (2005, p. 30). Robert Ray is even more dismissive of the way in which the “same unproductive layman’s question (How does the film compare with the book?)” is transparently designed to elicit “the same unproductive answer (The book is better)” (2000, p. 44). That, of course, is not the model of such comparative study of novels with their adaptations which I want to advocate.

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Thomas Leitch is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. His most recent books are A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock, co-edited with Leland Poague (2011), and Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age (2014). He is currently working on The History of American Literature on Film.

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This collection of forty original essays reflects on the history of adaptation studies, surveys the current state of the field, and maps out possible futures that mobilize its unparalleled ability to bring together theorists and practitioners in different modes of discourse. Grounding contemporary adaptation studies in a series of formative debates about what adaptation is, whether its orientation should be scientific or aesthetic, and whether it is most usefully approached inductively, through close analyses of specific adaptations, or deductively, through general theories of adaptation, the volume, not so much a museum as a laboratory or a provocation, aims to foster, rather than resolve, these debates. Its seven parts focus on the historical and theoretical foundations of adaptation study, the problems raised by adapting canonical classics and the aesthetic commons, the ways different genres and presentational modes illuminate and transform the nature of adaptation, the relations between adaptation and intertextuality, the interdisciplinary status of adaptation, and the issues involved in professing adaptation, now and in the future. Embracing an expansive view of adaptation and adaptation studies, it emphasizes the area’s status as a crossroads or network that fosters interactive exchange across many disciplines and advocates continued debate on its leading questions as the best defense against the possibilities of dilution, miscommunication, and chaos that this expansive view threatens to introduce to a burgeoning field uniquely responsive to the contemporary textual landscape.

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From novel to film: the remains of the day and the art of adaptation.

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Both novelist and film-maker have stories to tell and both create a vision of their stories for their readers and viewers, one with words on a page, the other with pictures and spoken dialogue. A novel's descriptive passages may be very detailed or leave the reader with large visual gaps, whereas each frame of the film fills the viewer's vision with scrupulously attended images, from the props to the setting to the costumes to every gesture and expression of the actor. A novel allows the reader to pause, ponder, reread, and detect subtleties; a film takes the viewer by the hand at its own pace. But film, not being limited to the medium of language, also has the privilege of working with the media of vision, sound, lighting, set, and spatiality. The relationship between Kazuo Ishiguro's fine first-person narrative and the artistic Merchant Ivory film adaptation is especially fascinating to explore.

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Felix, José Carlos. "Film and television adaptation." Florianópolis, SC, 2004. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/87828.

Brownlee, Shannon. "Strange translations : experiments in film adaptation /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

Perdikaki, Katerina. "Adaptation as translation : examining film adaptation as a recontextualised act of communication." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2016. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/812918/.

Bremer, Rose Mary. "Screening gender and sexuality in contemporary Quebec film adaptation." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1085495358.

Smith, Benjamin. "Spandex cinema : three approaches to comic book film adaptation /." Read thesis online, 2009. http://library.uco.edu/UCOthesis/SmithBP2009.pdf.

McFadden, Emmie. "The in-between : film adaptation, Irish cinema and diaspora." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2011. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20040/.

Loots, Lorraine. "A filmic adaptation of the Lorraine Loots's Ek is Suzie." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11013.

McFarlane, B. "Novel into film: Transfer and adaptation; the processes of transposition." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374692.

Taylor, James. "Hollywood superheroes : the aesthetics of comic book to film adaptation." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/93641/.

Eberts, Jane F. "Adaptation: Is the Book Really Better Than the...Television Series?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/105.

Hall, Alexander Charles Oliver. "Reel Hope: Literature and the Utopian Function of Adaptation." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1372450824.

Dovey, Lindiwe. "African film adaptation of literature : mimesis and the critique of violence." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423936.

Day, Catherine Mary. "Appropriating Juan Rulfo: The Film Score of Los confines as Adaptation." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3839.

McCluskey, Kevin. "Stage to screen and back again : film adaptation and Irish theatre." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678818.

Hudrlik, Mikhel L. "Prosthetic Adaptation: Disability in/of Richard III in Manga and Film." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/748.

Gkikas, P. A. "Adapting poetics : a fusion of ideas in literature to film adaptation." Thesis, University of Salford, 2016. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/39038/.

Doan, Joy M. "THE INNOCENT DIVERSION ON SCREEN: THE NARRATIVE FUNCTION OF FILM MUSIC IN ADAPTATIONS BASED ON THE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1270568560.

Westergård, Cecilia. "From Brokeback Mountain to Brokeback Mountain : A Critical Study of the Adaptation Process from Short Story to Film." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-3837.

The essay investigates the film adaptation process of the short story "Brokeback Mountain". The short story is compared to the film manuscript and the film. The process of adaptation is analyzed through a narratological perspective and uses Linda Hutcheon's "A Theory of Adaptation" as a starting point when analyzing matters such as focalization, narrators,voiceovers and framed narratives.

Bachmann, Anne. "Locating Inter-Scandinavian Silent Film Culture : Connections, Contentions, Configurations." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-96162.

Shi, Yeting. "L'adaptation des pièces comiques du théâtre français au cinéma." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BOR30013/document.

Istomina, Olga. "Vom buch zum film zur frage der adaptation bei Sternberg, Schlöndorff und Tykwer /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4989.

Foster, David. "The film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Comédie : a theoretical and practical interpretation." Thesis, University of Reading, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553053.

Parker, David. "Film adaptation and the novels of E.M. Forster : aspects of narrative structure." Thesis, University of Kent, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245626.

Barcsay, Katherine Eva. "Profit and production : Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice on film." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5152.

Briones-Manzano, Luisa. "La parodia quijotesca en el cine = Quixotic Parody in Film." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104030.

Bolton, Matthew E. "A Rhetorical Approach to Adaptation: Effects, Purposes, and the Fidelity Debate." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1315967449.

Konstantinidis, Kostas. "From film adaptation to post-celluloid adaptation : rethinking the transition of popular narratives and characters across old and new media." Thesis, University of Reading, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487291.

Hagström, Anna. "From The Golden Compass to The Golden Compass : a narratological study of novel and film adaptation." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-9483.

Falcon, R. W. "'Literaturverfilmung' : Perspectives on literature adaptation in the cinema of the Federal Republic of Germany." Thesis, University of Bath, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380958.

Steinbach, Katherine. "Documentary adaptation: non-fiction transformations via cinema and television." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5643.

Graour, Kristina. "Then it happened; The four degrees of narrative separation : exploring the process of adaptation through biolographical texts." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13252.

Heslinga, Margaretha Elizabeth. "The significance of editing techniques in the adaptation of play texts into film." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86533.

Korbon, Nastia. "L' adaptation du Nouveau Testament : cinéma, télévision, apostolat par le film 1897-2004." Paris 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA010583.

Skotnicki, Michal. "Popcorn Politics – Selected Philip K. Dick Stories in Contemporary Film Adaptations." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-112981.

Smyth, Pamela Lou. "The marriage of two minds: The divine deliverance of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus from stage to film." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/903.

Angerman, Elizabeth Ellen Julia. "“The Idea of Eternal Return”: Palimpsests and National Narratives in Czechoslovak New Wave Literary Adaptations." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275067749.

Bauman, Matthew R. "K. Stays in the Picture: Filming the Novels of Franz Kafka." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337288471.

Grobben, Karen Ann. "Retelling Grimm girlhood : representations of girlhood in the contemporary fairy tale film adaptation cycle." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/24306.

Camarillo, Emmanuel. "Analysis of Character Translations in Film Adaptations of Popular Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/872.

Kirlew, Akil. "The horror film genre as an interpretive device in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams 's Suddenly last summer." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19143.

Phillips, Nathan C. "Beyond Fidelity: Teaching Film Adaptations in Secondary Schools." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1910.pdf.

Langlois-Marcotte, Dominic. "Adaptation cinématographique de la nouvelle Femme de lumière de Claude Vallières : scénario, film, démarche de création et réflexion sur la lumière dans le film noir." Thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2011/28116/28116.pdf.

Smith, Grace B. "Austen Girls." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2020. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/925.

Heidt, Todd W. "Modernity in Word and Image: Narrative Literature and Film in Weimar Germany." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1265989144.

Lewis, Alicen M. "Fish Out of Water: A Transmedia Adaptation of The Little Mermaid." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/601.

Richards, Samantha. "Pacing Your Fears: Narrative Adaptation in the Age of Binge Culture." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1087.

Linter, Simon. "Mary Shelley’s Unrealised Vision : The Cinematic Evolution of Frankenstein’s Monster." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-104476.

Strong, Richard Jeremy. "Six English novels adapted for the cinema." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2605.

Cundick, Bryce Moore. "Translating Huck: Difficulties in Adapting "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" to Film." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2005. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/256.

Anticoli, Rahel. "Cultural Adaptation of Cancer Campaign Films : A comparison made between beauty commercials; United States ofAmerica and India." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Bildproduktion, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27472.

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Adaptation from Novels into Films: A Study of Six Examples, with an Accompanying Screenplay and Self-analysis.

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Deadline Extended: Pornographic Adaptations and Translations

In keeping with PAMLA's conference theme of "Translation in Action," this session invites papers that examine questions of translation and adaptation relevant to pornographic media, including but not limited to film and video, writing, and performance. I welcome papers covering any relevant period, topic, and method, from textual analysis to cultural histories to studies of pornographic production and consumption. Pornography provides an exemplary terrain on which to engage questions of adaptation as the eagerness of pornographers to adapt both low and high cultural works, from Twinklight (2010) to Spank Me, Mr. Darcy (2013), remains a reliable source of public fascination, humor, and outrage. While the move from straight text to porn comprises the most obvious vector of adaptation, other complex movements, such as demonstrated by the publication and adaptation history of E.L. James’s porno-fan-fic-cum-softcore-romance Fifty Shades of Grey (2011), require careful consideration. Adaptation transports themes, plot, and characters across not only genres but also varieties of media for different audiences, thereby providing opportunities to study social, cultural, and political relations among genres, media, and sex.

The question of translation also has relevance to pornography as the circulation of pornographic texts through different national, cultural, and linguistic contexts has been a significant feature of the genre’s history. For example, in Victorian England the refusal to translate ancient Greek effectively limited access to the erotic archives excavated from Pompeii for all but elite white men, but in the US of the mid-twentieth century controversies regarding translations of pornographic works by Sade and other writers contributed to the democratization of sexually explicit materials. Questions of translation hold continued relevance today, when networked media not only expose consumers to unfamiliar erotic traditions and cultures but also connect them to porn workers from around the world. While critics often dismiss pornography for its apparent transparency (“I know it when I see it”), pornographic translations and adaptations indicate the significant–even necessary–role that language and symbolism play for and within the genre. In fact, it may be that pornography is best characterized not by the clarity of its meaning but the stubborn resistance sex itself poses to intelligibility, thus driving endless translations and adaptations.

The above serve as only a few modest examples of the need to engage with pornographic adaptations and translations. I welcome papers that introduce other topics and problems relevant to the panel theme, and I am committed to a panel that provides a variety of methods and perspectives.

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Richardson, Shirley S., "From Novel to Film: The Remains of the Day and the Art of Adaptation" (1999). Honors Theses, 1963-2015. 710. Both novelist and film-maker have stories to tell and both create a vision of their stories for their readers and viewers, one with words on a page, the other with pictures and spoken dialogue. A novel's ...
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This thesis draws on Film Adaptation Studies and Irish Diaspora Studies, two interdisciplinary fields that are fundamentally concerned with the concept of 'origin'. It focuses specifically on the notion of the 'unacknowledged adaptation', namely films that do not declare formally their status as adaptations. In terms of Irish Diaspora Studies ...
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Turtles All the Way Down is a 2024 American romantic drama film based on the 2017 novel of the same name by John Green.The film is directed by Hannah Marks from a screenplay by Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker, and stars Isabela Merced.The story centers on a 16-year-old with obsessive-compulsive disorder who pursues the disappearance of a billionaire.

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