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Books are often "adapted" (created for a different type of presentation) for "the big screen" (movies), and some of them are memoirs. One of the better-known ones is This Boy's Life, a 1989 memoir by Tobias Wolff. The memoir and the film "of the same name" (with the same title as the book) describe a boy's teenage years as he and his mother travel across the United States. The 1993 film "stars" (has as leading actors) Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, and Ella Barkin.

Susanna Kaysen published her memoir, Girl, Interrupted, in 1993. It describes her experience living in a "mental institution" (a facility or hospital that treats people with mental illnesses) for 18 months. The 1999 film adaptation stars Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie and Whoopi Goldberg, among others, and was very "well received" (liked and praised by critics and the public).

Angela's Ashes, a 1996 memoir by Irish-American author Frank McCourt explores his years as a child and young adult facing difficult circumstances in New York and Ireland. The book was "quite" (very) popular, but the film adaptation made in 1999 was a "box office bomb" (a movie that loses a lot of money).

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert. It describes how she traveled internationally after her divorce, looking for meaning in her life. The memoir was adapted for film in 2010, starring Julia Roberts.