Browse Movies : TBA Month : Adaptation : C

A father tries to brave the cutthroat competition to get his son accepted into the perfect college. Obsessed with keeping his son from making that one wrong step that could dash the youth’s dreams, dad tries to get an audience with the most sought after and expensive private college consultant in the country, insinuates himself in helping his son past the SATs, and all the campus tours and stressful admissions interviews, all culminating in waiting for the fat envelope that will determine success or failure in getting into an elite school that will siphon off all dad’s savings.

Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple from Portsmouth, New Hampshire are captured by a UFO the night of September 19, 1961. A black postal clerk and a white social worker, the Hills claim that they had been studied by extraterrestrials, and then returned to their lives with missing memories that were later retrieved under hypnosis.

Story tracks a young boy and his father who must battle cardboard monsters that magically come to life.

Examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.

Writer Tom O’Neill disappears into the complex and shadowy cultural vortex on the 1960s.

Set in the Golden Age of piracy, with the story seeing the con-artist Captain Pugwash put on a ship to Botany Bay. But when he escapes, he finds himself at the helm of the Black Pig on a mission to rescue Cabin Boy Tom’s father, who has been marooned on a volcanic island with a hoard of treasure protected by an army of angry ghosts. Just to make things more complicated, Pugwash soon finds he has the infamous pirate Cut-Throat Jake on his tail.

15-year-old Caden Bosch who is afflicted with schizophrenia imagines himself on a pirate ship voyaging through the Pacific Ocean.

On the eve of her wedding, Rachel Chu has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won't be there to walk her down the aisle. But when a chance accident reveals his identity, Rachel is drawn into a dizzying world of Shanghai splendor, a world where people attend church in a penthouse, where exotic cars race down the boulevard, and where people aren't just crazy rich … they're China rich.

A modern retelling of the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Greek tragic dramas set in the world of contemporary crime.

Over the course of one night in a closed department store, a teddy bear goes on an adventure to find his lost button so that he can find the home and the friend that he has always wanted.

Set in the magical Orisha kingdom, a young woman named Zelie Adebola witnesses the death of her mother and other magicians, called "maji," under the order of a ruthless king.

Set in the world of Major League Baseball, the story is about fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption.

16-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. But when he falls for Hudson Aaronson-Lim, who's only into straight-acting guys, Randy reinvents himself over the summer as "Del," a buff, masculine and on-the-market camper. He comes to wonder, is it really love anyway, if Hudson doesn’t know who he truly is?

A boy, who appears much older than he actually is, impersonates his friend's father in order to ride in an experimental spaceship. He manages to get aboard, but the spaceship experiences a major malfunction and the boy must save the ship and the crew.

Willow Chance, a 12-year-old genius who is obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life her world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world.

A half-Korean daughter returns to small town Oregon to care for her Korean mother. They learn to see and accept one another through the formative power of music and the vibrant flavors of Korean cooking.

Story centers on 26-year-old Cassandra, whose life is turned upside down when she finds out her identical twin, Jude, is about to drop out of college and marry a man she's known only three months.

To avenge her sister's death and save her family's tea house, Aza Wu joins the culture of casters who battle with magic for money.