25 Book Adaptations That Felt More Like a Betrayal

With Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, and Melanie Griffith, Bonfire of the Vanities had award-winning blockbuster written all over it. But the film stripped the satire from Tom Wolfe’s novel and turned it into a cartoon. Characters lost their edge, tone went flat, and what should have been biting commentary became a mess. Forgettable.