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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Both Julie and Stuart are subject to this.
** In the book, Julie is a teenager, with healthy and married parents, who is going through relationship troubles and is implied to be a good-to-average student. In the film, Julie is a straight A student, with a grandfather and a single mom, with her mother experiencing a life threatening illness, which greatly effects Julie's life.
** In the book, Stuart is a teenager who works at Target, and has a present middle-class family who love Christmas despite being Jewish. In the film, Stuart is a young adult music star, who is alone on Christmas and comes from a working class background.
** In the book, Julie is a teenager, with healthy and married parents, who is going through relationship troubles and is implied to be a good-to-average student. In the film, Julie is a straight A student, with a grandfather and a single mom, with her mother experiencing a life threatening illness, which greatly effects Julie's life.
** In the book, Stuart is a teenager who works at Target, and has a present middle-class family who love Christmas despite being Jewish. In the film, Stuart is a young adult music star, who is alone on Christmas and comes from a working class background.
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* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: The friendship between the Duke, Tobin, and JP is very different here. In the book, they are three best friends. In the film, the Duke and Tobin are best friends, and JP is a cool older college student who is not part of their group.
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* LonelyAtTheTop: Stuart expresses this, as despite being a popular music stary, he finds himself mostly interacting with fans and his handlers in his everyday life. One of the reasons he's attracted to Julie is that she is both normal and doesn't care about his fame.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: Jubilee "Julie" Dougal is changed to Julie Reyes, and Stuart Weintraub is changed to Stuart Bale.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: JP is noticeably "cooler" in the film than in the book, which partly drives Tobin's jealousy of him here.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: JP is noticeably "cooler" in the film than in the book, which partly drives Tobin's jealousy of him here.
* FictionalCounterpart: The Waffle Town doesn't even try to hide that it's supposed to be a Waffle House, and explicitly was one in the book.
* GenderSwapped: The Tin-Foil woman is the Tin-Foil Man in the book.
* GenderSwapped: The Tin-Foil woman is the Tin-Foil Man in the book.
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* RaceLift: Several:
** Julie is implied to be white in the book, but here is Hispanic.
** Stuart is white and Jewish in the book, but black and presumably ''not'' Jewish in the movie.
** JP is Korean American in the book, but white here.
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* BenevolentBoss: Billy, the supervisor at the Waffle Town. He's only a year or two older than the teen employees, but is quite friendly and even consents to let Keon throw a raging party in the restaurant. He's also a bit of a GranolaGuy.
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* BenevolentBoss: Billy, the supervisor at the Waffle Town. He's only a year or two older than the teen employees, but is quite friendly and even consents to let Keon throw a raging party in the restaurant.restaurant (provided Keon cleans up the day after, play good music, and give him a ride). He's also a bit of a GranolaGuy.
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* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: Tobin thinks Angie/The Duke, whom Tobin has a crush on, has a crush on JP. Ultimately, Angie assures Tobin that isn't the case with JP hooking up with Addie in the end.
