From Mean Girls to Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, some classic movies have used bestselling self-help books as their source material.
From Mean Girls to Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* , there are plenty of movies based on self-help books. Adaptations of books are very common because existing source material comes with an existing audience, which gives studios a head-start on marketing. But film producers tend to go after the rights to books with a narrative, so the screenwriter has something to work from.
9 Sex & The Single Girl Helen Gurley Brown’s bestselling 1962 book Sex and the Single Girl encouraged young women to become sexually active and financially independent before getting married, and possibly not get married at all. The 1964 movie of the same name stars Natalie Wood as a fictionalized version of Brown. Rather than adapting the book’s advice into a movie about single life, the movie follows Brown’s comical misadventures following the publication of the book.
7 Woman Thou Art Loosed Woman Thou Art Loosed is a self-help novel about the role that the Christian faith can play in recovery from poverty and addiction. The book, written by preacher T.D. Jakes, was published in 1997. Of all the self-help books turned into movies, Woman Thou Art Loosed makes sense as cinematic source material because it has a narrative.
4 He's Just Not That Into You Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo’s 2004 self-help book He's Just Not That Into You is a dating guide for single women that aims to advise readers on whether a potential romantic interest is “into” them. The 2009 movie adaptation is a sprawling ensemble piece tied together by the book’s theme of analyzing human behavior to determine romantic intentions.
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