Complex sentence: The case has inspired numerous works of fiction, among them "True Confessions", a 1981 film starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall, adapted from a 1977 novel of the same name by John Gregory Dunne.
Split into simpler sentences: The case has inspired numerous works of fiction, among them "True Confessions", a 1981 film starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. It was adapted from a 1977 novel of the same name by John Gregory Dunne.