In honor of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize in Literature this week, we want your most beloved film adaptations of novels or short stories. List the fictional stories that translated to the screen most brilliantly, whether they remained completely faithful or were artfully reimagined. Never let us go: tell us in your notes what made the adaptation so successful.
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