I assume that your question refers to the most recent film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play: the 2002 film starring Colin Firth as Jack and Rupert Everett as Algernon. In this case, there are no real significant departures from the text in the film; it is a fairly accurate representation of Wilde's original events and characters. The three acts do overlap in the movie in ways in which they do not in the play. For example, in the movie, there are early cuts to Cecily at Jack's country house, though -- in the play -- we do not meet her until Act Two. So, events from different acts, mostly Acts 1 and 2, are blended together.
Further, the movie does lengthen certain scenes, most likely to make the movie a bit longer than it otherwise might have been. For example, in the play, Aunt Augusta simply conducts her interrogation of Jack as a marriage prospect for Gwendolyn at Algernon's house; however, in the film, it is turned into a much more formal and frightening (and hilarious) affair. Aunt Augusta asks Jack to come to her home the next day, and when he arrives, he passes someone we must assume to be another potential suitor of Gwendolyn's looking very harried as he quickly leaves the premises. Jack is presented, then, to Aunt Augusta and two other very august women who all take notes and look at him judgmentally. It is even more awkward for him than the original scene in the play.
In general, however, the film does a nice job of capturing the characters and themes and only alters details to make them more accessible to a modern audience or omits them if they would not be helpful to such an audience. (At one point, Dr. Chasuble makes an obscure reference to an early Christian writer who is unlikely to be understood by a 21st-century layperson audience: it is the comments like these that are sometimes omitted.)
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