Bitter Moon (Lunes de fiel) (1981), Pascal Bruckner (book), Bitter Moon (1992) (film)

Bitter Moon is a 1992 Franco-British-American erotic romantic thriller film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Peter Coyote. The film is known in France as Lunes de fiel (a pun on the French phrase "lune de miel", meaning 'honeymoon'). The script is inspired by the novel Lunes de fiel, written by the French author Pascal Bruckner. The score was composed by Vangelis.

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Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), Dorothy Allison (book), Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) (film)

Bastard out of Carolina is a 1996 film made by Showtime Networks, directed by Anjelica Huston. It is based on a novel by Dorothy Allison and adapted for the screen by Anne Meredith. Jena Malone stars as a poor, physically abused and sexually molested girl.

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All the Pretty Horses (1992), Cormac McCarthy (book), All the Pretty Horses (2000) (film)

All the Pretty Horses is a 2000 American romance western film, directed by Billy Bob Thornton and based on the novel of the same name by author Cormac McCarthy. It stars Matt Damon as John Grady Cole, the main male character, and Penélope Cruz as Alejandra Villarreal, the main female character. The film received mostly negative reviews and grossed only $18 million worldwide, against a $57 million budget.

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