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14	->''"Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature."''
15	-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''' reviews ''Film/ThinkLikeAMan''
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17	Hollywood knows how to make commercially successful movies out of unpromising source material: PragmaticAdaptation. Sometimes their source material is not only non-fiction but isn't even a narrative. That doesn't seem to deter Hollywood from making movies and TV shows 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]]''.
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19	!!Examples
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23	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
24	* ''Anime/HealthAndPhysicalEducationFor30YearOlds'', a sex-and-dating guide targeted at lonely {{Otaku}} in their '30s.
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27	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
28	* Parodied in one ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' strip, where Opus sees an ad for a star-studded new drama series that was apparently adapted from the book "Thin Thighs in 30 Days".
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31	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
32	* 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 losing the prize after 15 years of]] ConspicuousConsumption).
33	* Creator/SofiaCoppola decided to make ''Film/TheBlingRing'' after reading a Vanity Fair article on the crimes on a flight.
34	* Inverted by the movie ''Film/TheDarwinAwards'', a comedy 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. Also inverted in that all the deaths featured in the movie are urban legends that the site features for comedic value only, not legitimate stories submitted to the site - probably to avoid problems from the victim's estates.
35	* Creator/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.
36	* The title and namesake ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' (at least in the first film, ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'') are based on Creator/JKRowling's book ''Literature/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', which is a fictional guide with nothing resembling a plot.
37	* Both ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious2001'' and ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' were based on magazine articles.
38	* ''Film/{{A Guide for the Married Man}}'' was developed simultaneously as an advice book and a movie, both written by Frank Tarloff. The movie is basically a FramingDevice linking a series of vignettes.
39	* ''Film/HesJustNotThatIntoYou'' was based on an advice book based on a stand-up comedy bit.
40	* ''Film/HowToLoseAGuyIn10Days'' is based on a short cartoon book of the same name by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long.
41	* Creator/SJPerelman and Creator/OgdenNash worked on an unproduced screenplay based on Dale Carnegie's ''Literature/HowToWinFriendsAndInfluencePeople''.
42	* ''Film/{{It\|1927}}'', a 1927 romantic comedy starring Creator/ClaraBow which spawned the term "It Girl", was based on Elinor Glyn's advice guide about how to have great sex appeal.
43	* On the day he died, Creator/JohnBelushi signed on to be in the film adaptation of ''The Joy Of Sex''. He was high on cocaine at the time.
44	* ''Film/MeanGirls'' is based on ''Queen Bees & Wannabees'' by Rosalind Wiseman, a guide for parents of adolescent girls. ''Mean Girls'' also deconstructed the story of the "elite" high school clique, [[UnbuiltTrope despite being the story that most of the later works would imitate]]. The catty members of the various Girl Posses are shown the damage that such soap-opera-like high school backstabbing does, the Girl Posse's infighting is portrayed as pointlessly self-destructive and shallow, and the AlphaBitch is [[JerkassWoobie a villain to be pitied and hated]] rather than [[LoveToHate loved and feared]].
45	* ''Film/SafetyNotGuaranteed'' is a very expanded adaptation of a cryptic classified ad from 1997 that went viral online.
46	* ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'' was based on Nik Cohn's article "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", which he later admitted was a complete fabrication.
47	* The comedy ''Film/SchoolForScoundrels1960'' (and by extension [[Film/SchoolForScoundrels2006 the 2006 remake]]) was based on Creator/StephenPotter'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''.
48	* ''Film/SexAndTheSingleGirl'' was named after the book by Helen Gurley Brown and starred Creator/NatalieWood as a heavily fictionalized version of Brown.
49	* The film ''Film/ThinkLikeAMan'' is based on Steve Harvey's relationship advice book ''Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man''.
50	* ''Film/WarMachine'' is based on a Magazine/RollingStone article, with [[RomanAClef names changed]].
51	* 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]]''.)
52	* ''Film/WhatToExpectWhenYoureExpecting'' is based on the perennial favourite pregnancy advice book and features an AllStarCast.
53	* ''Film/YesMan'', sort of: the book it was based on is a memoir, but a sort of self-help memoir.
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57	* ''[[Series/EightSimpleRules 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter]]''. Although that's not ''really'' an advice book; it's a comedy book, parts of which parody advice books.
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61	* Pat Boone published an advice book called '''Twixt Twelve and Twenty'' in 1958, whose title was recycled for a song of his a year later.
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65	* ''Cooking in a Bedsitter'' by Katherine Whitehorn (1961) was a combination of cookery and advice book about the practicalities of cooking in a one-room apartment ("There is one powerful smell closely associated with the making of coffee in bedsitters. It is the smell of burning plastic, and will go away if you move the handle of the pot away from the flame."). In 2016 it inspired Creator/TheBBC to make a radio sitcom of the same name, about a woman living in a 1960s bedsitter.
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68	[[folder:Theatre]]
69	* ''Theatre/HowToSucceedInBusinessWithoutReallyTrying'' is a parody of such books.
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72	[[folder:Video Games]]
73	* The ''VideoGame/BrainAge'' games are {{Minigame Game}}s based on ''Train Your Brain: 60 Days to a Better Brain'', by Dr. Ryuta Kawashima.
74	* Parodied in Telltale's ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' games, where almost every episode is claimed to be based on some sort of pamphlet that has nothing to do with the actual plot. This is a running gag from the original comics as well.
75	* The video game series ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune'' is based on the magazine of the same name.
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