History Main / BasedOnAnAdviceBook

* The video game series ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFOrtune'' is based on the magazine of the same

* ''Film/{{It|1927}}'', a 1927 romantic comedy starring Clara Bow which spawned the term "It Girl", was based on Elinor Glyn's advice guide about how to have great sex appeal.

* ''HowToSucceedInBusinessWithoutReallyTrying'' is a parody of such books.

* ''Film/{{It}}'', a 1927 romantic comedy starring Clara Bow which spawned the term "It Girl", was based on Elinor Glyn's advice guide about how to have great sex appeal.

* ''HowToSucceedInBusinessWithoutReallyTrying''

* ''Sex And The Single Girl'' was named after the book by Helen Gurley Brown and starred NatalieWood as a heavily fictionalized version of Brown.

* The 1960 comedy ''School For Scoundrels'' (and by extension the 2006 remake) was based on Stephen Potter's satirical advice book ''The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship: The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating'' and its sequels ''Lifemanship'' and ''One-Upmanship''.

* For a video game example, the ''BrainAge'' games are {{Minigame Game}}s based on ''Train Your Brain: 60 Days to a Better Brain'', by Dr. Ryuta Kawashima.

-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert''' reviews ''Film/ThinkLikeAMan''

* Anime example: ''HealthAndPhysicalEducationFor30YearOlds'', a sex and dating guide targeted at lonely {{Otaku}} in their 30s.

* Brazilian movie ''Até que a Sorte nos Separe'' ("Til Luck Do Us Part") is based upon financial advice book ''Casais Inteligentes Enriquecem Juntos'' ("smart couples get rich together" - the plot of the movie [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted goes the other way]], with a couple who won the lottery [[RichesToRags loses the prize after 15 years of]] ConspicuousConsumption).

* Inverted by the movie ''The Darwin Awards'', a comedy is about a profiler-turned-insurance-investigator obsessed with the cockamamie deaths chronicled on the Website/DarwinAwards website. The inversion is that the Darwin Awards are sort of an ''un''advice litany of things no one with a brain ought to do.

* The 2007 [[GermanMedia German movie]] ''Warum Männer nicht zuhören und Frauen schlecht einparken'' is based upon an advice book of the same name, a bestseller in Germany at that time. (It was written by Australians, so it has an original English title: ''[[MarsAndVenusGenderContrast Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps]]'')

* ''It'', a 1927 romantic comedy starring Clara Bow which spawned the term "It Girl", was based on Elinor Glyn's advice guide about how to have great sex appeal.

* Both ''TheFastAndTheFurious'' and ''[[Film/DieHard Live Free or Die Hard]]'' were based on magazine articles, as was ''SaturdayNightFever.''

* The film ''Think Like a Man'' is based on Steve Harvey's relationship advice book ''Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man''.
* ''What To Expect When You're Expecting'' is based on the perennial favourite pregnancy advice book and features an AllStarCast.

* On the day he died, John Belushi signed on to be in the film adaptation of ''The Joy Of Sex''. He was high on cocaine at the time.

->''Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.''
-->--RogerEbert reviews ''Think Like a Man''

* ''Film/MeanGirls'' is based on "Queen Bees & Wannabees" by Rosalind Wiseman, a guide for parents of adolescent girls.

* Inverted by the movie ''The Darwin Awards'', a comedy is about a profiler-turned-insurance-investigator obsessed with the cockamamie deaths chronicled on the DarwinAwards website. The inversion is that the DarwinAwards are sort of an ''un''advice litany of things no one with a brain ought to do.

Hollywood knows how to make commercially successful movies out of unpromising source material: AdaptationDecay. Sometimes their source material is not only non-fiction but isn't even a narrative. That doesn't seem to deter Hollywood from making romantic comedies out of advice books. Normally the plot will center on a character following, overtly or otherwise, the advice in the book, but there are InNameOnly exceptions, such as ''Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex [[note]][[FootnoteFever But Were Afraid To Ask]][[/note]]''.

Hollywood knows how to make commercially successful movies out of unpromising source material: AdaptationDecay. Sometimes their source material is not only non-fiction but isn't even a narrative. That doesn't seem to deter Hollywood from making romantic comedies out of advice books. Normally the plot will center on a character following, overtly or otherwise, the advice in the book, but there are InNameOnly exceptions, such as ''Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex [[hottip:*:[[FootnoteFever But Were Afraid To Ask]]''.

* What To Expect When You're Expecting is based on the perennial favourite pregnancy advice book and features an AllStarCast.

* WoodyAllen's movie of ''Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)'' is an unusual example in that it's a series of seven disconnected sketches. Even so, they have almost nothing to do with the book.

* The movie ''The Darwin Awards'' is a comedy is about a profiler-turned-insurance-investigator obsessed with the cockamamie deaths chronicled on the DarwinAwards website. Several incidents in the film are based on real or urban-legendary mishaps from the site's archive. Could qualify as an inversion, as the DarwinAwards are more of an ''un''advice book of things no one with a brain ought to do.

* The movie ''The Darwin Awards'' is a comedy is about a profiler-turned-insurance-investigator obsessed with the cockamamie deaths chronicled on the DarwinAwards website. Several incidents in the film are based on real or urban-legendary mishaps from the site's archive.