Adaptation Movies (Page #44)

Four men in their early thirties live near one another in the same Wisconsin town where they grew up. Some in the quartet have left their birth state while others have not, and they are just now coming into their own as husbands and fathers with each hoping to finally find real purchase in the world. One of the friends records the album "Shotgun Lovesongs" in a former chicken coop.

Deceit is involved in a marriage as two couples and a child head for vacation in the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea in Italy.

The events of this story unfold during Christmas in the year 1985. Bill Furlong, a dedicated father, stumbles upon surprising secrets held by the nearby convent. In the process, he also uncovers shocking truths about his own life.

Follows the story of a U.S. Ranger haunted by painful memories of a family tragedy, who becomes stranded with his platoon in a remote chalet in the woods. As they fight for survival and against their own inner demons, they are torn apart by a discovery they make — a box filled with $5 million in cash and a dark, disturbing secret.

A fierce musical contest has arisen in the wake of a great galactic war known as the Metagalactic Grand Prix. Part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past, species far and wide compete in feats of song, and dance.

Described as "a movie musical based on the Broadway musical, based on a movie that is based on the legend."

Middle schooler Ben Ripley dreams of becoming a CIA agent. Even though he is awkward and accident prone, he is brilliant and recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science that actually is a front for a junior CIA academy.

Experimental brain therapy Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) dramatically changes both the life and mind of New York Times bestselling author and advocate for the neurologically diverse Elder Robison.

Michaela De Prince grows up as an orphan in war-torn Sierra Leone before being adopted at the age of four and taken to the United States. She later becomes a world-famous ballerina.

The slowing of the rotation of the earth suddenly causes the days and nights to begin to perceptibly stretch longer and longer. Gravity isn’t what it used to be and the effects of this all on the environment are tremendous. Still, in spite of the grandiosity of these goings-on, daily life continues for a young girl who tries to deal with the precariousness of her parents’ relationship with one another, as well as her own budding relationships, forcing her to cope with what’s personal while facing the threat presented by the much bigger picture.

Never have there been five friends as infamous as The Bad Guys—dashing pickpocket Mr. Wolf, seen-it-all safecracker Mr. Snake, chill master-of-disguise Mr. Shark, short-fused “muscle” Mr. Piranha and sharp-tongued expert hacker Ms. Tarantula, aka “Webs.” But when, after years of countless heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, the gang is finally caught, Mr. Wolf brokers a deal (that he has no intention of keeping) to save them all from prison: The Bad Guys will go good. Under the tutelage of their mentor Professor Marmalade, an arrogant (but adorable!) guinea pig, The Bad Guys set out to fool the world that they’ve been transformed. Along the way, though, Mr. Wolf begins to suspect that doing good for real may give him what he’s always secretly longed for: acceptance. So when a new villain threatens the city, can Mr. Wolf persuade the rest of the gang to become … The Good Guys?

A former US attorney endures a 25-hour kidnapping ordeal in a Brooklyn apartment in 1998 the night before his 38th birthday.

A big-screen adaptation of football coach Barry Switzer's memoir about coaching at Oklahoma University and the NFL's Dallas Cowboys

After his mother is abruptly called away to America, a British boy begins to suspect that perhaps she did not leave but was murdered — by the housekeeper who cares for him in the family's isolated country estate.

Bruno is a young boy living in Berlin in 1942 with his well-to-do family. But soon the family is forced to move to Poland due to his Father's promotion at the Krakow concentration camp. There Bruno meets and befriends a young Jewish boy being held in the camp. Their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.

The Breadwinner tells the story of Parwana, a 12-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is arrested, Parwana dresses as a boy in order to work and provide for her family. Together with her best friend Shauzia, she risks discovery to try to find out if her father is still alive.

Centers on a vacationing family terrorized by four strangers who claim to be either attempting to bring about or trying to avert the apocalypse.