12 Book-to-Movie Adaptations So Bad, the Authors Deserve Letters of Apology

Romance fans generally liked this adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's 1999 tearjerker starring Mandy Moore and Shane West, giving it a 78 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, which is the highest audience score of any movie on this list. But critics were . . . less than kind. They called it "overwrought," "melodramatic" and "a tooth-rottingly sentimental weepie." The reviews resulted in a 27 percent. Oof.