The movies had to be suitable for the biggest audience posible. Having certain parts of the book included would have raised the movie rating to R, which means less people would pay to see it. That’s why a certain part of the book that involved a sex scene between all the main characters was cut out all together. Also they already had Beverley’s dad being creepy around her in a sexual way as well as the pharmacist that was kinda flirting with her in a scene. I don’t think they wanted to shoot a scene with a then underaged Nicholas being molested by another guy, specially if that scene didn’t add anything to the main story.How is that acceptable in the books but not in the movie? I am sure they can do it but do it in a tasteful way.