| 100% | OUR | 3 | "The Fault in ___ Stars" (2014 film based on a John Green novel) |
| 82% | OUR | 3 | "The Fault in ___ Stars" (teen drama based on a John Green novel) |
| 77% | OUR | 3 | "The Fault in ___ Stars" (2014 tear-jerker based on a John Green novel) |
| 64% | HIGHFIDELITY | 12 | Film based on a Nick Hornby novel set in a record shop starring John Cusack and Joan Cusack (2 wds.) |
| 59% | OUR | 3 | "The Fault In ___ Stars," the novel by John Green |
| 57% | MAY | 3 | "What Dreams ___ Come," fantasy drama film based on a novel of the same name starring Robin Williams |
| 57% | THEFIRM | 7 | American legal thriller film based on a John Grisham novel by the same name: 2 wds. |
| 56% | STARS | 5 | "The Fault in Our ___" (2014 movie based on a young-adult novel) |
| 55% | OUR | 3 | "The Fault in ___ Stars" (YA novel by John Green) |
| 55% | OUR | 3 | "The Fault in ___ Stars," 2012 novel authored by John Green |
| 53% | OUR | 3 | "The Fault in ___ Stars," John Green novel |
| 52% | OUR | 3 | "The Fault in ___ Stars" (John Green novel) |
| 52% | GONEGIRL | 8 | 2014 film starring 36-Across based on a 2012 Gillian Flynn novel (2 wds.) |
| 52% | OURSTARS | 8 | The Fault in __, young adult novel by John Green |
| 51% | BAMBI | 5 | Classic 1942 film based on a book subtitled "A Life in the Woods" |
| 51% | OUR | 3 | "The Fault in __ Stars": 2014 film |
| 51% | OUTSIDERS | 9 | "The ___," 1983 film starring Diane Lane based on a novel of the same name |
| 51% | DOUBTFIRE | 9 | "Mrs. ___," comedy-drama film based on a novel by Anne Fine starring Robin Williams |
| 50% | MILE | 4 | "The Green ___" (Tom Hanks film based on a Stephen King serial novel) |
| 49% | INTOTHEWILD | 11 | 2007 film starring Emile Hirsch based on a book of the same name by Jon Krakauer set in the Alaskan wilderness: 3 wds. |
| 49% | ART | 3 | "The ___ of Racing in the Rain" (2019 film based on a Garth Stein novel) |
| 49% | GOOD | 4 | "A ___ Marriage," 2014 film based on Stephen King's novel of the same name |
| 49% | FORRESTGUMP | 11 | Tom Hanks' 1994 drama film based on a Winston Groom novel of the same name in which 20a plays his love interest: 2 wds. |
| 48% | STRIKEONE | 9 | Ump's call, often based on a sequence found in the answers to starred clues |
| 48% | MUCHADOABOUT | 12 | "___ Nothing," a 1993 film based on a Shakespeare play, in which Keanu Reeves starred with the likes of Denzel Washington: 3 wds. |
| 48% | THELOSTCITYOFZ | 14 | Charlie Hunnam film based on a 52-Across book subtitled "A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" (5 wds.) |
| 48% | OUR | 3 | "The Fault in ___ Stars," book by John Green |
| 48% | NORTHANDSOUTH | 13 | 1985 miniseries based on a John Jakes novel, starring Patrick Swayze and James Read: 3 wds. |