Of Paolo Genovese’s 2016 Italian phenom “Perfect Strangers,” the original Variety review warned “remakes will be rampant,” and sure enough, Guinness made it official last fall: The hooky dramedy — about a dinner party where a group of friends agree to read their private text messages aloud — has since become the “most remade” film in the world, with no fewer than two dozen versions popping up everywhere from South Korea to Azerbaijan (although, for complicated rights reasons, we’ve so far been spared an English-language version).
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