What's the Difference between How to Be Single the Book and How to Be Single the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Serena
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This Character does not appear.
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Ruby
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This Character does not appear.
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Alice
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This Character does not appear.
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Georgia
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This Character does not appear.
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Julie
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This Character does not appear.
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This Character does not appear.
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Alice
Portrayed by: Dakota Johnson
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This Character does not appear.
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Robin
Portrayed by: Rebel Wilson
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This Character does not appear.
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Meg
Portrayed by: Leslie Mann
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This Character does not appear.
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Lucy
Portrayed by: Alison Brie
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How to Be Single Book vs Movie
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In the Movie |
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The 5 female main characters are all 38. |
The 4 female main characters range in age from approx. 25 to 45. |
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Our main character (Julie) is a publicist. |
Our main character (Alice) is a paralegal.
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Alice is a lawyer and teacher, and quit her job to date full time. |
Lucy appears to date full time. |
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Georgia is an older, blonde woman with two kids and newly divorced. She dates new men throughout the book with Julie's help. |
Meg is an older, blonde woman (Alice's sister) with no kids, no husband and works as a doctor. She dates new men throughout the movie with Alice's help.
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Ruby is single and starts the process of insemination via sperm donation. |
Meg is single and goes through the process of insemination via sperm donation. |
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Our main character lives in New York and spends the book travelling to France, Italy, Brazil, Australia, Bali, China and Iceland to write about single women in other parts of the world. |
Our main character lives in New York. She goes nowhere.
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