I Know What You Did Last Summer

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*I Know What You Did Last Summer*
By: Lois Duncan

By reading the book and then watching the movie I have to wonder if the producers of the movie ever read the book because the two are nothing alike. Here are all the things that are alike and different from the book to the movie.

- The book started out at Julie’s house and the movie started out at Helen’s beauty pageant.
- Then they all went to the ocean to party a little and Julie wasn’t wearing her pink shirt like she was in the book.
- In the movie there was a character that wasn’t in the book and the book had two character’s that weren’t in the movie.
- The person that the four teens ran over wasn’t a little boy it was a groan man.
- This man wasn’t riding a bike but the kid in the book was.
- In the book the teens called 911 from the nearest phone booth and in the movie they didn’t call anyone they just dumped the body into the water.
- This Max guy wasn’t in the book but him and Barry got into a little fight at the fishing docks and Barry cut Maxi’s face with a big hook.
- Max gets murdered at the fishing docks where he works.
- In the book Barry got shot in the back on the field at the University. In the movie some guy, the same guy that murdered Max tried to run down Barry with a car and he ended up in the hospital.
- When Barry was in the hospital in the movie anyone could go to visit him but in the book there was this big thing about only allowing family to visit him.
- Over the summer after the accident Ray went to California but in the movie he worked at the fishing docks all summer long.
- In the book the kid that they hit, his name was David Gregg and in the movie his name was David Egan.
- Ray and Julie want to David Gregg’s house in the book and in the movie Helen and Julie went.
- In the movie the girls didn’t stay long at the house but in the book Ray and Julie stayed long enough to have some Ice Tea.
- Melissa wasn’t...