Although there were definite differences and many parts excluded, we still thought the producers did a good job staying true to the original story and including vital portions of the story. They even switched points of view throughout the movie like R.J. Palacio did in the book!
We did not like how they left out how Auggie starts wearing his hearing aids.
Some warnings: bullies, physical fights, kissing b/t Via and her boyfriend Justin, Jack says he would kill himself if he looked like Auggie and it is revisited again in the movie (I skipped this in the book because I did not want my boys hearing about killing oneself.), Miranda's mom drinks excessively and viewers see her passed out on the couch from drinking too much, Miranda then downs the rest of the wine in the glass (underage drinking), Auggie's parents are alone without the kids and whip out the wine and proclaim to each other, "let's get drunk" and the father gives the mother a gift which one infers is lingerie, 7th graders at the camp call Auggie Jack's boyfriend (another part I skipped when reading the book aloud to my boys).
-Borrowed from the library.
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