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Title: Loved the Book, Hated the movie
Review: Read and loved the book, decided to give the movie a shot despite the pop teen cast. Horrible. The movie is a hatchet job. The director tried to modernize a book that was written for a time when fast sex, drugs and unmerited self-righteousness what the norm (the early 80's, pre-aids scare). The movie is extremely loosely based on the book, and lost much of its essence. Suggestion: read the book, forget the movie.
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