modern-day teen film adaptations of classic literature: a thread.
valley girl (1983)
— based on romeo & juliet.
romeo + juliet (1996)
— based on romeo & juliet.
clueless (1995)
— loosely based on jane austen’s emma.
she’s all that (1999)
— based on george bernard shaw’s pygmalion.
cruel intentions (1999)
— based on pierre choderlos de laclos’s les liaisons dangereuses.
10 things i hate about you (1999)
— based on william shakespeare’s the taming of the shrew.
whatever it takes (2000)
— loosely based on edmond rostand’s cyrano de bergerac.
get over it (2001)
— loosely based on william shakespeare’s a midsummer night’s dream.
o (2001)
— based on william shakespeare’s othello.
she’s the man (2006)
— based on william shakespeare’s twelfth night.
john tucker must die (2006)
— based on william shakespeare’s the merry wives of windsor.
material girls (2006)
— based on jane austen’s sense & sensibility.
easy a (2010)
— based on nathaniel hawthorne’s the scarlet letter.
warm bodies (2013)
— based on william shakespeare’s romeo & juliet.
the duff (2015)
— based on george bernard shaw’s pygmalion.
sierra burgess is a loser (2018)
— based on edmond rostand’s cyrano de bergerac.
the half of it (2020)
— based on edmond rostand’s cyrano de bergerac.
edward scissorhands (1990)
— based on victor hugo’s the hunchback of notre dame, gaston leroux’s le fantôme de l’opéra, and mary shelley’s frankenstein.
wuthering heights (2003)
— based on emily brontë’s wuthering heights.
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