What's your favorite book + film adaptation where it's just 1 film based on a stand-alone book?
What I mean is no series, prequels/sequels, or multi-parters on either the book side or the film side. Just one book turned into one film.
I appreciate seeing a good film adaptation of a book that I've previously enjoyed in a different manner than I appreciate seeing a good original film, and I'm looking for some of that particular type of amusement at the moment.
So, what's the best book/film pair (or two) you have come across?
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Usually, movie adaptations of King stories are a hot mess, but the handful that were done right (as in: followed the book very, very closely) are great. Just like the source material.
ETA: Technically, these two stories were “novellas,” not full-on books, but I stand by my answer. 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_in_a_Golden_Eye_(film)
is a 1967 American drama film directed by John Huston and based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers. It deals with elements of repressed sexuality, both homosexual and heterosexual, as well as voyeurism and murder. The film stars Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. The film was unsuccessful at the box office.[2] ....
The opening line of the novel and the film is restated: "There is a fort in the South where a few years ago a murder was committed." ....
After filming Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor became a very powerful name in Hollywood and Warner Bros. wanted her in Reflections in a Golden Eye. She then agreed and accepted the part on the condition that Montgomery Clift would be cast as well.[3] Clift died on July 23, 1966, of a heart attack before production began.[4] The role subsequently went to Brando, after both Richard Burton and Lee Marvin turned it down.[5] ... ....
The film received mixed reviews at the time of its release. Variety called it a "pretentious melodrama" but praised Keith's "superb" performance as the "rationalizing and insensitive middle-class hypocrite."[9] Time described it as a "gallery of grotesques", with the poetry of the novel missing from the film. The critic wrote: "All that remains praiseworthy is the film's extraordinary photographic technique."[10]
Roger Ebert observed that the film was released without the usual publicity, despite its stellar cast and director. "Was the movie so wretchedly bad that Warner Bros. decided to keep it a secret? Or could it be, perhaps, that it was too good?" Ebert concluded the latter, praising all aspects of the production, but noted that the audience he saw it with greeted the film's emotional moments with guffaws and nervous laughter.[11]
The film received a score of 55% on Rotten Tomatoes from 22 reviews.[12] ....
Still photographs of Brando in character as Major Penderton were used later by the producers of Apocalypse Now. These photos of a younger Brando were displayed in the service record of the character Colonel Walter E. Kurtz.[14]
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You bought the wrong paper, Annie. I can't write on this paper, Annie.
