If so, I suggest you look at what is basically an 'up-date' of the film.
It's ON LINE (2002) and it moves its characters from the telephone to the internet. In just seven short years.
CAUTION: ON LINE is absolutely "R" rated and comes at you like an "NC-17" flick. I'm only recommending it if you are interested in the issues of technology and isolation.
Excellent point Ellery Queen. If one cared, one could suggest several alternatives to explain your derision. Since I have so many books to read and very little time to concern myself with mere movies, I'll choose the option that comes most quickly to hand ,,,,, that you are a book snob.
Book snobs are a tribe who believe, among other self-satisfying things, that a film, being pitiful even before its conception, has nothing to benefit them. And even more important, that, since many films arise from books (and plays), they already understand all films. Effortlessly and immediately.
In fact, one of their bumper stickers has it more or less as follows, "The film was not nearly as good as the book -- which by the way I read when I was nine years old."
PS: I guess you didn't like the negative comment about JIM HUTTON.