In 2018, the novel was adapted into a motion picture titled Measure of a Man, starring Blake Cooper, Donald Sutherland, Luke Wilson, and Judy Greer and was distributed by Great Point Media.

In 1952, Lipsyte took a summer job as a lawn boy and lost forty pounds, ridding himself of the youthful stigma of excess weight.

In June 2015, director Jim Loach started pre-production for the film with screenwriter David Scearce, who wrote the screenplay, based on Robert Lipsyte's novel.

The film went into production several months later when Donald Sutherland and The Maze Runner star Blake Cooper joined the cast on September 23, 2015.

[2] On October 5, 2015, Judy Greer and Luke Wilson joined the film alongside Sutherland and Cooper,[3] to play Bobby's parents.