| 100% | WILLARD | 7 | 1971 hit movie based on the novel "Ratman's Notebooks" |
| 53% | BABE | 4 | 1995 movie based on the novel "The Sheep-Pig" |
| 47% | BABE | 4 | Movie based on the children's book "The Sheep-Pig" |
| 46% | ARGO | 4 | 2012 movie based on the CIA's "Canadian Caper" |
| 44% | FISH | 4 | "Rumble ___," 1983 drama film by Francis Ford Coppola based on the eponymous novel by S.E. Hinton |
| 43% | PERSUASION | 10 | 2022 Netflix movie based on 18-Across's last completed novel |
| 43% | RED | 3 | "The Thin ___ Line," 1998 movie based on James Jones' novel about the WWII battle of Guadalcanal |
| 42% | FIELDOFDREAMS | 13 | Film based on the novel "Shoeless Joe" (#32) |
| 42% | RODERICKTHORP | 13 | Author who wrote "Nothing Lasts Forever," the novel on which movie in 17a was based: 2 wds. |
| 42% | ALADDIN | 7 | 2019 Disney movie based on the Arabian Nights |
| 42% | SERENITY | 8 | 2005 movie based on the TV series "Firefly" |
| 42% | BLADERUNNER | 11 | Movie based on the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" |
| 41% | GROOM | 5 | Winston ___, author of the 1986 novel on which the movie "Forrest Gump" is based |
| 41% | NOESCAPE | 8 | Ray Liotta thiller based on the novel The Penal Colony |
| 41% | KISSMEKATE | 10 | 1953 Kathryn Grayson movie based on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew": 3 wds. |
| 41% | OCTOBERSKY | 10 | Movie based on the memoir "Rocket Boys" (and an anagram of "Rocket Boys") |
| 40% | CANNERYROW | 10 | Nolte movie based on two Steinbeck novels |
| 40% | APASSAGETOINDIA | 15 | 1984 film based on the 1924 novel |
| 40% | PAINTEDHOUSE | 12 | "A ___," a 2003 movie based on a John Grisham novel of the same name about a 7 year old boy named Luke Chandler: 2 wds. |
| 40% | ADAPTATION | 10 | 2002 Meryl Streep movie based on the nonfiction book "The Orchid Thief" |
| 40% | ARGO | 4 | 2012 movie based on the Tony Mendez book "The Master of Disguise" |
| 40% | OLLIE | 5 | "Stan & ___," 2018 comedy movie based on the lives of Laurel and Hardy |
| 40% | SULLY | 5 | 2016 Tom Hanks movie based on the true story of a pilot |
| 40% | EYRE | 4 | "Jane ___" (2011 movie based on a classic novel) |
| 40% | WARHORSE | 8 | 2011 movie based on a Michael Morpurgo novel |
| 40% | FORRESTGUMP | 11 | 1994 movie based on a Winston Groom novel |
| 40% | GREATGATSBY | 11 | "The ___," Tobey Maguire's (birthday today) 2013 movie based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel: 2 wds. |
| 40% | HALF | 4 | & 2D 1965 Broadway musical based on the novel Kipps by H G Wells |
| 40% | STARS | 5 | "The Fault in Our ___" (2014 movie based on a young-adult novel) |
| 40% | SUM | 3 | "The ___ of All Fears" (2002 movie based on a Tom Clancy novel) |