Adaptation Movies (Page #38)

The film centers on Barney Thomson (Carlyle), an awkward, shy Glasgow barber, living a life of desperate mediocrity. His mother (Thompson) offers little encouragement, as she is far too self-absorbed, chain smoking between absurd social outings in her animal print wardrobe. Little does Barney know how his stale and life is about to change when he accidentally enters the dark, grotesque and comically absurd life of a serial killer.

Chloe Mills, an MBA student interning at a media conglomerate, begins a torrid love-hate relationship with her boss, Bennett Ryan, who has just returned from France to take a prominent role in the family company.

A biopic of Judith Ellen "Judy" Heumann, an American disability rights activist.

Blends Beyond Glory pay performances from stages around the world, most notably nuclear carriers in the Persian Gulf.

Kate Sanders is an ambitious and gifted, if tomboyish, aspiring ballerina from Virginia who, because of her low-income status, is given a scholarship to attend a prestigious ballet school in Paris, France. Upon arriving at the cutthroat, internationally-renowned institution, her confidence and emotional fortitude are tested by a beautiful, mysterious fellow dancer, Marine Durand, who recently lost her brother (and dance partner) to suicide. While confrontational at first, Kate and Marine’s relationship evolves into an emotionally-charged, competitive union beset by lies, sexual awakening and, ultimately, emotional breakthrough as they risk everything to win the school’s ultimate prize: a contract to join the Opéra national de Paris.

Set in a city where humans and Darklings are separated by a high wall, tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war. 16-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the emissary, meet and do the unthinkable -- they fall in love.

Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man, has been haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelganger, “Goblin,” a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can't escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere.

A FBI agent discovers an opportunity to infiltrate a cartel that has taken to launder its drug money through American quarter horse racing.

Three cousins from the Bone family, who are small, white and bald humanlike creatures with big noses, run out of their hometown and find themselves in a mysterious valley where they are separated and hunted by other creatures. They are taken in by a girl named Thorn and her grandmother, and find out that the valley is threatened by an evil force called the Lord of the Locusts.

An 11-year-old, whose strongest passion in life is being a bully, is hit by a bus one day and is reborn as a cockroach.

A couple undergoes an experimental fertility treatment that turns them into bloodthirsty savages, leading them on a desperate quest to find a cure.

Set in a civil war-torn future New York City, a clairvoyant man is handed a baby and sees two visions of the future: one where the child becomes a fascist dictator, and one where it brings peace on Earth.

After the war, a wealthy former WWI officer of the Loamshire Regiment spends his new-found leisure time as a private detective.

Mario is a young fisherman who dreams of being a poet, and by becoming Pablo Neruda's postman, is involved in a world of metaphors and verses to achieve not only his desire of being a writer, but also to conquer Beatriz, the woman of his dreams.

A team of gifted teens control biological nanobot robots warriors and they battle another group that is controlled by conjoined twins whose nanobots are brainwashing world leaders. The megalomaniacal twins are trying to take over the world.

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?

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.

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.