Tag Archives: based on novel

The Deep End of the Ocean

IMDB Rating: 5.80
3979 votes

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Storyline
The Deep End of The Ocean is a film about a family's reaction when Ben, the youngest son is kidnapped and then found ten years later, living in the same town.
Actors
Beth CappadoraMichelle Pfeiffer
Pat CappadoraTreat Williams
Candy BlissWhoopi Goldberg

The Talented Mr. Ripley

IMDB Rating: 7.10
37955 votes

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The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own.
Actors
Tom RipleyMatt Damon
Marge SherwoodGwyneth Paltrow
Dickie GreenleafJude Law

The Omega Code

IMDB Rating: 3.10
2892 votes

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Ancient codes hidden within the Torah reveals the secrets of global events, past (i.e. Hitler, the Kennedy assasination, the Gulf War), present, and future. One man (York) is after the Code, seeking the power to change the world as we know it...for the worse. Another (Van Dien) seeks the truth, risking his life and everything he stands for in order to stop him.
Actors
Gillen LaneCasper Van Dien
Stone AlexanderMichael York
Cassandra BarasheCatherine Oxenberg

Message in a Bottle

IMDB Rating: 5.40
8165 votes

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A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move on and find happiness.
Actors
Garret BlakeKevin Costner
Theresa OsborneRobin Wright Penn
Dodge BlakePaul Newman

The Iron Giant

IMDB Rating: 7.80
22088 votes

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Storyline
"Iron Giant" is based upon the 1968 story,'Iron Man,' by the British poet laureate Ted Hughes. The film is about a giant metal machine that drops from the sky and frightens a small town in Maine in 1958, only to find a friend named, Hogarth, that ultimately finds its humanity and saving the towns people of their fears and prejudices.
Actors
Annie HughesJennifer Aniston
Dean McCoppinHarry Connick Jr.
The Iron GiantVin Diesel

Cruel Intentions

IMDB Rating: 6.60
39996 votes

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Kathryn makes a bet that her step-brother, Sebastian, won't be able to bed Annette (a virgin, who wants to wait until marriage) before the start of the school year. If he loses, Kathryn gets his Roadster, if he wins, he gets Kathryn
Actors
Drew Snyder
Kathryn MerteuilSarah Michelle Gellar
Sebastian ValmontRyan Phillippe

Stuart Little

IMDB Rating: 5.90
12413 votes

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Storyline
The adventures of a heroic and debonair stalwart mouse named Stuart Little with human qualities, who faces some comic misadventures while searching for his lost bird friend and living with a human family as their child.
Actors
Stuart LittleMichael J. Fox
Mrs. Eleanor LittleGeena Davis
Mr. Fredrick LittleHugh Laurie

Eye of the Beholder

IMDB Rating: 4.40
7448 votes

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A nameless private eye (Ewan McGregor) shadows the same woman (who happens to be a serial killer of men) all over the U.S. for 10 + years, without her ever knowing and he strangely enough occasionally acts as her guardian angel.
Actors
Stephen WilsonEwan McGregor
Joanna ErisAshley Judd
Alexander LeonardPatrick Bergin

Eyes Wide Shut

IMDB Rating: 7.00
43765 votes

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Storyline
Sexual jolts disrupt Manhattan physician Bill Harford's equilibrium. At an elegant Christmas party, two "models" hit on him, he watches a Lothario try to pick up his tipsy wife, he aids a woman sprawled naked in a bathroom after an overdose. The next night, his wife reveals sexual fantasies with a stranger; a dead patient's daughter throws herself at him; as he walks, brooding, six teen boys hurl homophobic insults at him; a streetwalker takes him to her flat; he interrupts men having a sex party with a girl barely in her teens. His odyssey, which next takes him into a world of wealthy sex play at a masked ball of hedonism, threatens his life, his self-respect, and his marriage.
Actors
Alan Cumming
Vinessa Shaw
Rade Serbedzija