Staff picked their favorite movie adaptations of books.

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Along Came a Spider
DRA/R

Sequel to Kiss The Girls. A congressman’s daughter is kidnapped from a private school by an insider who calls Det. Alex Cross, sucking him into the case even though he’s recovering from the loss of his partner.


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Being There
COM/PG

A secluded gardener whose entire knowledge of the world is from television goes out into the world when his employer dies, and enters the world of politics. Includes: Memories From Being There With Illeana Douglas and the theatrical trailer.


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The Bourne Identity
ACT/PG-13

A CIA agent is found with amnesia and not a clue to his past.


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Coraline
FAM/PG

A young girl walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. This parallel reality is eerily similar to her own life, only much better. When the adventure turns dangerous, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home and save her family.


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The Emperor's Club
DRA/PG-13

When a new student starts in Professor Hundert’s class, little does he know she will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake his controlled world. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.


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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
DRA/R

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.


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The Godfather
DRA/R

Revenge, envy, and parent-child conflict mix with the rituals of Italian mob life in America.


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Gone with the Wind
DRA/G

Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O’Hara. The story begins on the O’Haras’ Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.


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How to Train Your Dragon
FAM/PG

Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon.


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Jaws
HOR/PG

The classic ‘I’m Never Going in the Water Again’ story of a killer shark that has taken over the waters near a seaside community, and the three men who set out to kill it.


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The Kite Runner
DRA/PG-13

Like the bestselling book upon which it’s based, The Kite Runner will haunt the viewer long after the film is over. A tale of childhood betrayal, innocence and harsh reality, and dreamy memory, The Kite Runner faces good and evil—and the path between them, though often blurry and sorrowfully relative.


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Marie Antoinette
DRA/PG-13

The story of a 14-year-old girl who is taken from her parents to become the Queen of France, and how a young woman must grow up in front of an entire country.


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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
DRA/R

The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full spectrum of institutional repression.


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The Princess Bride
FAM/PG

A hilarious satire of fairy tales, this one’s about two people fighting to be together. Clearly, hands down, the best book-to-movie of all time is The Princess Bride. And while the book is fantastic in every way, the film is even better.


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The Road
DRA/R

A father and his son are two of the last remaining people on Earth after an unexplained tragedy has destroyed most life. As the two head south, they are faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. An intense bond between the father and son is formed as together they strive to not only survive, but to retain humanity as they help the people they encounter along the way.


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Sarah Plain and Tall
FAM/G

In this heartwarming, family film, a mail-order bride travels to Kansas in 1910 and teaches a lonely family to love again.


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The Shining
HOR/R

A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer’s dementia.


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Up in the Air
DRA/R

Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert who flies all over the world on business. Just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and meeting the frequent traveler woman of his dreams, his company grounds him. When Bingham goes on his last cross-country firing expedition, he will learn that life isn’t about the journey, but about the connections made along the way.


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