| There's a bit of a problem with the whole credited/uncredited thing. With works in the public domain (like Dickens and Shakespeare), you don't really have to give the author a writing credit or worry about being sued for copyright. So on Oliver and Company, Disney decided to put Dickens in the credits for whatever reason even though they didn't have to, whereas with Scrooged, the producers decided not to. In reality, neither film is an adaptation in the traditional sense, so whether or not they're included here comes down to knowing whether or not they're credited. Same with Shakespeare: both Ten Things I Hate About You and She's the Man are very loose adaptations that would make the list if Shakespeare were credited (and he would have to be if the works weren't in the public domain). Things like this shouldn't be dependent on knowing what's in the credits and what isn't (and for that matter, the only writing credits for Passion of the Christ are Mel Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald - no Bible, God, Matthew, Luke, Q, etc.). |
Michael Crichton Novels 
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Box Office Top 50: 2000's
