Adaptation Movies 2020 List

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Monster Hunter PG-13

Behind our world, there is another: a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When Lt. Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her elite unit are transported through a portal from our world to a new world, they are in for the shock of their lives. In her desperate attempt to get home, the brave lieutenant encounters a mysterious hunter (Tony Jaa), whose unique skills have allowed him to survive in this hostile land. Faced with relentless and terrifying attacks from the monsters, the warriors team up to fight back and find a way home.
Paul W.S. Anderson, Milla Jovovich, Diego González Boneta, Jeremy Bolt, Dennis Berardi, Robert Kulzer, Martin Moszkowicz, Tony Jaa

Modern Persuasion

A modern telling of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion.” Wren Cosgrove is a happy, single, and self-confessed workaholic who, after rising to the top of the corporate ladder, finds herself coming home every night to her cat. When her firm is hired by Owen Jasper, “the man who got away,” long-lost feelings are stirred, giving Wren a second chance at true love.
Jonathan Lisecki, Alicia Witt, Liza Lapira, Dominic Rains, Alex Appel, Barbara Radecki, Bebe Neuwirth, Daniella Pineda
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1 / 5
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News of the World PG-13

Five years after the end of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks), a veteran of three wars, now moves from town to town as a non-fiction storyteller, sharing the news of presidents and queens, glorious feuds, devastating catastrophes, and gripping adventures from the far reaches of the globe.
Paul Greengrass, Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Luke Davies, Michael Covino, Steve Boyles, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor

Let Him Go R

Following the loss of their son, retired sheriff George Blackledge (Costner) and his wife Margaret (Lane) leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas, headed by matriarch Blanche Weboy. When they discover the Weboys have no intention of letting the child go, George and Margaret are left with no choice but to fight for their family.
Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Paula Mazur, Thomas Bezucha, Mitchell Kaplan, Lesley Manville, Kayli Carter, Jeffrey Donovan
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Jiu Jitsu R

An ancient order of Jiu Jitsu fighters faces a vicious race of alien invaders in an epic battle for the survival of Earth.
Marie Avgeropoulos, Nicolas Cage, Alain Moussi, Frank Grillo, Rick Yune, Martin Barab, Juju Chan, Tony Jaa
Limited
VOD / Digital
3 / 5
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Hillbilly Elegy R

J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student, is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget. J.D. must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with his mother Bev (Amy Adams), who’s struggling with addiction. Fueled by memories of his grandmother Mamaw (Glenn Close), the resilient and whip-smart woman who raised him, J.D. comes to embrace his family’s indelible imprint on his own personal journey.
Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Amy Adams, Freida Pinto, Erica Huggins, Vanessa Taylor, Gabriel Basso, Karen Lunder

Black Beauty

In this modern day reimagining of Anna Sewell’s timeless classic, we follow Black Beauty, a wild horse born free in the American West. Rounded up and taken away from her family, Beauty is brought to Birtwick Stables where she meets a spirited teenage girl, Jo Green. Beauty and Jo forge an unbreakable bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges, and adventures of her life.
Claire Forlani, Ashley Avis, Mackenzie Foy, Kate Winslet, Iain Glen, Jeremy Bolt, Robert Kulzer, Fern Deacon

Spontaneous R

When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally…), seniors Mara (Katherine Langford) and Dylan (Charlie Plummer) struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last. As an unexpected romance blossoms between them, Mara and Dylan discover that when tomorrow is no longer promised, they can finally start living for today!
Charlie Plummer, Piper Perabo, Katherine Langford, Brian Duffield, Brian Robbins, Matt Kaplan, Nicki Cortese, Yvonne Orji

Spontaneous R

When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally…), seniors Mara (Katherine Langford) and Dylan (Charlie Plummer) struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last. As an unexpected romance blossoms between them, Mara and Dylan discover that when tomorrow is no longer promised, they can finally start living for today!
Charlie Plummer, Piper Perabo, Katherine Langford, Brian Duffield, Brian Robbins, Matt Kaplan, Nicki Cortese, Yvonne Orji
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1 / 5
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The War with Grandpa PG

Sixth-grader Peter (Oakes Fegley) is pretty much your average kid-he likes gaming, hanging with his friends and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when his recently widowed grandfather Ed (Robert De Niro) moves in with Peter's family, the boy is forced to give up his most prized possession of all, his bedroom. Unwilling to let such an injustice stand, Peter devises a series of increasingly elaborate pranks to drive out the interloper, but Grandpa Ed won't go without a fight. Soon, the friendly combatants are engaged in an all-out war with side-splitting consequences.
Cheech Marin, Jane Seymour, Eugene Levy, Tom Astle, Christopher Walken, Laura Marano, Tim Hill, Phillip Glasser

The Trial of the Chicago 7 R

What was intended to be a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention turned into a violent clash with police and the National Guard. The organizers of the protest—including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale—were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history.
Michael Keaton, Seth Rogen, Laurie MacDonald, Eddie Redmayne, Frank Langella, Steven Spielberg, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Walter Parkes

The Witches PG

From the mind of Roald Dahl and as reimagined by acclaimed filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, The Witches is a wickedly fun adventure as a young boy stumbles onto a secret coven of child-hating witches as they plot to turn the world’s children into mice. A fresh Halloween classic for this generation, in a story that celebrates courage, teamwork, and unlikely heroes, offering a completely distinct kids proposition with a quirky, delightfully twisted tone in classic Dahl style.
Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Chris Rock, Jack Rapke, Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, Kenya Barris, Anne Hathaway

Enola Holmes

England, 1884 – a world on the brink of change. On the morning of her 16th birthday, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) wakes to find that her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) has disappeared, leaving behind an odd assortment of gifts but no apparent clue as to where she’s gone or why. After a free-spirited childhood, Enola suddenly finds herself under the care of her brothers Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin), both set on sending her away to a finishing school for “proper” young ladies. Refusing to follow their wishes, Enola escapes to search for her mother in London. But when her journey finds her entangled in a mystery surrounding a young runaway Lord (Louis Partridge), Enola becomes a super-sleuth in her own right, outwitting her famous brother as she unravels a conspiracy that threatens to set back the course of history.
Jack Thorne, Henry Cavill, Helena Bonham Carter, Harry Bradbeer, Millie Bobby Brown

Children of the Sea

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does. Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish.
Ayumu Watanabe, Mana Ashida, Hiiro Ishibashi, Seishû Uragami, Win Morisaki
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3 / 5
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things R

Despite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of everything she knew or understood about her boyfriend, herself, and the world.
Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Charlie Kaufman, Stefanie Azpiazu, Toni Collette, Anthony Bregman, Brie Larson, David Thewlis

The Devil All the Time

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters — an unholy preacher (Robert Pattinson), twisted couple (Jason Clarke and Riley Keough), and crooked sheriff (Sebastian Stan) — converge around young Arvin Russell (Tom Holland) as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
Sebastian Stan, Robert Pattinson, Jason Clarke, Bill Skarsgard, Tom Holland, Riley Keough, Mia Wasikowska, Eliza Scanlen

The Glorias R

The Glorias (Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Keira Armstrong) traces Steinem’s influential journey to prominence—from her time in India as a young woman, to the founding of Ms. magazine in New York, to her role in the rise of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s, to the historic 1977 National Women’s Conference and beyond.
Alicia Vikander, Kimberly Guerrero, Julie Taymor, Sarah Ruhl, Julianne Moore, Janelle Monae, Lulu Wilson, Bette Midler
Prime Video
2 / 5
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The Secret Garden PG

Tells the story of Mary Lennox (Dixie Egerickx, Genius, The Little Stranger and A Royal Winter), a prickly and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven (Academy Award® and BAFTA-winner Colin Firth – A Single Man, The King’s Speech, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Bridget Jones’s Baby) on his remote country estate deep in the Yorkshire moors. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin (Edan Hayhurst – Genius, There She Goes), who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden, lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor. A magical place of adventure that will change their lives forever.
Edan Hayhurst, Jack Thorne, Julie Walters, Dixie Egerickx, Marc Munden, David Heyman, Rosie Alison, Jane Robertson

The One and Only Ivan PG

Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.
Danny DeVito, Angelina Jolie, Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren, Allison Shearmur, Brooklynn Prince, Mike White, Ariana Greenblatt

Chemical Hearts R

Seventeen-year-old Henry Page (Austin Abrams) has never been in love. He fancies himself a romantic, but the kind of once-in-a-lifetime love he’s been hoping for just hasn’t happened yet. Then, on the first day of senior year, he meets transfer student Grace Town (Lili Reinhart) and it seems all that is about to change. When Grace and Henry are chosen to co-edit the school paper, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious newcomer. As he learns the heartbreaking secret that has changed her life, he finds himself falling in love with her — or at least the person he thinks she is.
Coral Pena, Austin Abrams, Richard Tanne, Lili Reinhart, Alex Saks, Sarah Jones, Adhir Kalyan, Kara Young

All Together Now

Story of a teenage girl who, despite her difficult circumstances, is preternaturally optimistic about the world. She often helps those around her, resulting in strong bonds with a disparate group of outsiders in her community, until she faces a devastating loss and must confront her own challenges.
Lee Stollman, Taylor Richardson, Brett Haley, Michael Younesi, Matthew Quick, Rhenzy Feliz, Fred Armisen, Auli’i Cravalho

The Personal History of David Copperfield

From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.
Dev Patel, Gwendoline Christie, Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Aneurin Barnard, Ben Whishaw

Shirley R

Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naïve young couple at their door.
Josephine Decker, Jeffrey Soros, Christine Vachon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Logan Lerman, Simon Horsman, David Hinojosa

The Old Guard R

Led by a warrior named Andy (Charlize Theron), a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries. But when the team is recruited to take on an emergency mission and their extraordinary abilities are suddenly exposed, it’s up to Andy and Nile (Kiki Layne), the newest soldier to join their ranks, to help the group eliminate the threat of those who seek to replicate and monetize their power by any means necessary.
Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlize Theron, Veronica Ngo, Greg Rucka, Don Granger, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinell, Gina Prince-Bythewood

Radioactive NR

RADIOACTIVE is the incredible, true-story of Marie Skłodowska Curie and her ground-breaking scientific achievements that revolutionized medicine with her discovery of radium and polonium, ultimately changing the face of science forever. Marie was the first female to win the Nobel Prize and the first person in history to win the esteemed award twice.
Anya Taylor-Joy, Rosamund Pike, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jack Thorne, Marjane Satrapi, Paul Webster, Sam Riley
Prime Video
3 / 5
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The Secret: Dare to Dream PG

The Secret: Dare to Dream centers around Miranda Wells (Katie Holmes), a hard-working young widow struggling to raise three children on her own. A powerful storm brings a devastating challenge and a mysterious man, Bray Johnson (Josh Lucas), into her life. In just a few short days, Bray’s presence re-ignites the family’s spirit, but he also carries a secret—and it’s a secret that could change everything.
Josh Lucas, Rick Parks, Celia Weston, Andy Tennant, Bekah Brunstetter, Katie Holmes, Jerry O’Connell, Sarah Hoffmeister

Shirley R

Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naïve young couple at their door.
Josephine Decker, Jeffrey Soros, Christine Vachon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Logan Lerman, Simon Horsman, David Hinojosa
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3 / 5
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You Should Have Left

Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a perfect nightmare when Theo’s grasp on reality begins to unravel and he suspects that a sinister force within the house knows more than he or Susanna have revealed, even to each other.
Amanda Seyfried, Jason Blum, David Koepp, Kevin Bacon, Avery Essex
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2 / 5
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Wasp Network

Follows Cuban spies in American territory during the 1990s - revealing the tentacles of a Florida-based terrorist network.
Pedro Pascal, Olivier Assayas, Penelope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez, Adria Arjona

Arkansas R

In Clark Duke’s directorial debut, Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they’ve never met. Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog’s proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). Swin then settles into his day job by taking up a relationship with Johnna (Eden Brolin) against orders to blend in while Kyle continues to question his night job by trying to figure out who Frog really is. Their world is then upended after one too many inept decisions, and Kyle, Swin, and Johnna find themselves directly in Frog’s crosshairs, who mistakenly sees them as a threat to his empire.
Vince Vaughn, Vivica A. Fox, Liam Hemsworth, Eden Brolin, John Malkovich, Jeff Rice, Clark Duke, Patrick Hibler
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3 / 5
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The Willoughbys PG

The four Willoughby children -- Timothy; his twin brothers, Barnaby A and Barnaby B; and their little sister, Jane -- are abandoned by their oblivious parents and must learn how to adapt their old-fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.
Maya Rudolph, Alessia Cara, Terry Crews, Sean Cullen, Martin Short, Jane Krakowski, Cory Evans, Luke Carroll

Escape From Pretoria PG-13

Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.
Daniel Radcliffe, Francis Annan, David Barron, Mark Blaney, Jackie Sheppard, LH Adams, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart

First Cow

A cook joins a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory and befriends a Chinese immigrant.
Lily Gladstone, Neil Kopp, Kelly Reichardt, Vincent Savino, Toby Jones, Gary Farmer, Anish Savjani, Jonathan Raymond

The Postcard Killings NR

In The Postcard Killings, based on the James Patterson and Liza Marklund #1 New York Times bestselling novel, NY Detective Jacob Kanon’s (Jeffery Dean Morgan) world is destroyed when his daughter and son-in-law are brutally murdered in London. Unable to sit idly by and do nothing, Jacob travels to London get the answers he needs. As he learns of similar heinous murders happening across Europe - each preceded by a postcard sent to a local journalist - Jacob is in a race against time to stop the killings and find justice for his little girl.
Danis Tanovic, Connie Nielsen, Naomi Battrick, Liza Marklund, Andrew Stern, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Cush Jumbo, Denis O’Hare

The Informer

Reformed criminal and former special ops soldier Pete Koslow (Kinnaman), in order to free himself from jail and return to his wife (de Armas) and daughter, has been working undercover for crooked FBI handlers (Pike, Common and Owen) to infiltrate the Polish mob’s drug trade in New York. In a final step towards freedom, Koslow must return to the one place he’s fought so hard to leave, Bale Hill Prison, where his mission becomes a race against time when a drug deal goes wrong and threatens to identify him as a mole.
Common, Rosamund Pike, Clive Owen, Ana de Armas, Basil Iwanyk, Ollie Madden, Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh

Stargirl PG

A homeschooled teenage girl enrolls in an Arizona high school, altering the ecosystem of the student body with her nonconformity.
Julia Hart, Graham Verchere, Kristin Hahn, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jordan Horowitz, Grace VanderWaal, Karan Brar, Maximiliano Hernandez

Human Capital

As perspectives shift between parents and children, an impulsive business deal brings together two families from across the social divide, with tragic consequences. A real estate agent puts his livelihood at stake with a desperate gamble, a wealthy housewife is confronted with the profound void in her life, and a teenage girl falls deeply in love for the first time
Alex Wolff, Peter Sarsgaard, Fred Hechinger, Betty Gabriel, Marc Meyers, Oren Moverman, Liev Schreiber, Marisa Tomei

Emma PG

Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Bill Nighy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Josh O’Connor, Autumn de Wilde, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Johnny Flynn, Tanya Reynolds
VOD / Digital
3 / 5
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The Call of the Wild

The story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team--and later its leader--Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.
Erwin Stoff, Dan Stevens, Omar Sy, Colin Woodell, Chris Sanders, Michael Green, Harrison Ford, Karen Gillan

Emma PG

Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Bill Nighy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Josh O’Connor, Autumn de Wilde, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Johnny Flynn, Tanya Reynolds

Dolittle PG

A vivid reimagining of the classic tale of the man who could talk to animals.
Rami Malek, Kumail Nanjiani, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Craig Robinson, Jeff Kirschenbaum, Tom Holland, John Cena