From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In  shawn  writes:   
      
   [snip]   
   >>Based on the short story by Stephen King of the same name, from his   
   collection   
   >>NIGHT SHIFT.   
   >>   
   >>Of course expanding a 15-page story into a full-length movie pretty much   
   meant   
   >>they were going to write their own tale that bears little resemblance to   
   >>King's and just use the wind-up monkey as pretty much the only story element   
   >>that survives the transition.   
      
   >Yeah I never expect a movie based on a Stephen King story to be an   
   >accurate retelling of the story.   
      
   One that worked with a bit of cheating was "Cats Eye".  This was   
   a compilation of three short movie-lets (is that a word?) based   
   on two short stories and a third made up just for this sequence.   
      
   I had read the first one, "Quitters, Inc.", in Fantasy   
   and Science Fiction and.. the big screen version was   
   a just about perfect adaptation.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Eye_(1985_film)   
      
   (I had forgotten Drew Barrymoore stole the scenes...)   
      
      
      
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