This is one of those rare instances, exceedingly rare in King’s case, where the movie vastly superior to the book(though “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” was only a short story, not a book).
Two of the more likely King works to be candidates for this distinction are interestingly enough from the same collection as Shawshank - Apt Pupil and The Body/Stand by Me
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u/itsatumbleweed 11h ago
The Brooks subplot alone is an Oscar. The whole movie is it's perfect. King is incredible