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Read the Book Before You See the Movie. Which is better? You decide. Start browsing our year-by-year lists of movie adaptations of classic novels. See the menu on the right. |
 | DEVIL'S KNOT (2013)  PLOT: This true story documents the murder of three children - Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Steven Branch in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. The witch hunt that followed led to the conviction of three local teenagers - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley without any physical evidence or credible witnesses. In 2011, the West Memphis Three were released after new DNA evidence was entered. The movie incorporates Steven's mother, Pam Hobbs (Reese Witherspoon), as well as investigator Ron Lax (Colin Firth) to delve further into the inconsistences of the case. AUTHOR: Mara Leveritt |
 | SERENA (2013) PLOT: During the Great Depression, George Pemberton (Bradley Cooper) and his wife Serena (Jennifer Lawrence) move to North Carolina to establish a lucrative timber business. When they find that Serena is unable to bear children it seems that the future of their empire is in jeopardy or is it? It seems that an heir already exists and complicates the lives of everyone involved. AUTHOR: Ron Rash |
 | SYRUP (2013) PLOT: Scat (Shiloh Fernandez) is a young college graduate with a profitable idea for a new soft drink called Fukk. After his so-called friend, Sneaky Pete (Kellan Lutz), steals his idea and takes a chunk of the profits it is time for Scat to figure out how to get to the top of the corporate ladder. With the help of a sexy associate named 6 (Amber Heard) he learns the ropes of the marketing world and it may just be enough to help him beat Pete at his own game. AUTHOR: Maxx Barry |
 | GREAT GATSBY, THE (2013) PLOT: Love, lust and liquor kept Jay Gatsby's (Leonardo DiCaprio) legendary parties alive and the place to be seen. His lavish attempts at catching the eye of former love Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan) unintentionally garnered him the attention of an intrigued neighbor, Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire). It isn't long before Nick and Gatsby's friendship grows and the light of luxury soon begins to fade. Nothing is as grand as it seems and the price to pay for a series of love triangles will be a high one. AUTHOR: F. Scott Fitzgerald |
 | MONUMENTS MEN, THE (2013) PLOT: This true story shares another side of World War II by documenting the accomplishments of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Program. The Allied group was dedicated to protecting art and culturally significant pieces from falling under Nazi control where it could be systematically deemed unsuitable and destroyed by Hitler. Their preservation efforts are now being made into a film starring Matt Damon, George Clooney, John Goodman, Bill Murray and Cate Blanchett. AUTHOR: Robert M. Edsel |
 | PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS (2013) PLOT: In the second book of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, Percy (Logan Lerman) and other young demi-gods training at Half Blood Hill go on a quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece to strengthen the camp's barriers and avoid a possible attack. They find help in Grover, who is able to communicate telepathically with Percy to find the object but also to signal for help as he is being held captive by a Cyclops in the Sea of Monsters. Can they rescue their friend and complete their mission or will they have to sacrifice one for the other? AUTHOR: Rick Riordan |
 | ENDER'S GAME (2013) PLOT: After twice being attacked by an alien race known as the Formics, humans have created an elite school in space to train future fleet commanders in preparation for a third attack. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) is one of the Battle School's newest students and with a few tricks up his sleeve, he might be exactly what the world needs to survive. AUTHOR: Orson Scott Card |
 | MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES, THE (2013) PLOT: Clary Fray (Lily Collins) is an average New York City teen, that is until she witnesses a murder and all those involved disappear before her eyes. It is learned that the victim is a demon and she was a witness to the work of the Shadowhunters. But why? What makes her able to see things others can't? After her mother (Lena Headey) is attacked and taken away, Clary uncovers parts of her past and family history that put her on the path to an unsettling answer. AUTHOR: Cassandra Clare |
 | COMPANY YOU KEEP, THE (2013) PLOT: Jim Grant (Robert Redford) thought he had escaped his past radical political affiliations with Weather Underground and the legal turmoil that accompanied it by recreating himself. But the past always has a way of catching up to you especially when a young journalist like Ben Shepard (Shia LeBeouf) is determined to hear your story whether you want to share it or not. AUTHOR: Neil Gordon |
 | THE SEVENTH SON (2013) PLOT: Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges) has been battling local witches, ghosts and magical beings for most of his life as the local Spook. Ready to pass on the torch, he takes on Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) as his apprentice with the hope that he will fair better than prior students. The newcomer is soon tested and must quickly prove himself after he inadvertently releases a sinister witch known as Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore). AUTHOR: Joseph Delaney |
 | PARANOIA (2013) PLOT: Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth) is a standard employee at a large technology company until he catches the eye of CEO Nick Wyatt (Gary Oldman) with an impressive yet illegal prank. Mr. Wyatt sees potential in the young man and sends him on a mission to infiltrate the company's biggest competitor. Adam quickly finds himself rolling in benefits provided by his new boss, Jock Goddard (Harrison Ford) but it takes a lot of skill to keep Adam's life intact. Will he be able to keep it together or is he just being played more than he is playing others? AUTHOR: Joseph Finder |
 | BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (2013) PLOT: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) believes that nothing ever happens in his small hometown of Gatlin but all that changes when Lena (Alice Englert) arrives one day to live with her strange uncle. With her sixteenth birthday approaching, we find that as a Caster, or magical being, she will become either dark or light at that time. Although most do not take to her, Ethan is drawn in by unseen forces and eventually they begin piece together how they are connected. What is their link and how far back does it go? AUTHOR: Kami Garcia |
 | THE HOST (2013) PLOT: When an alien race decides that humans are no longer worthy of their world, they decide to invade but some people don't succumb willingly. The "Souls" take over host bodies including their intelligence and memories but ultimately the beings lose themselves to the Soul. Soul Wanderer encounters one of these troublesome takeovers as her host Melanie Stryder resists (Saoirse Ronan) and the two unexpectedly find that they are transformed into a whole new person. But can they live as one? AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer |
 | WARM BODIES (2013) PLOT: Blood thirsty zombies aren't suppose to have emotions but what happens when one does? It was just another day of eating brains for R (Nicholas Hoult) until he meets Julie (Teresa Palmer), the girlfriend of one of his meals. Instead of attacking, he feels the need to protect her and it changes both of their lives. What does that mean for other zombies and the remaining mankind? AUTHOR: Isaac Marion |
 | ADMISSION (2013) PLOT: Princeton admissions officer Portia Nathan (Tina Fey) takes her job very seriously, trying to keep an elite group within the school until she meets an out of the ordinary student. At the insistence of former college friend, John Pressman (Paul Rudd), she is forced not only to reevaluate the standards for Jeremiah but her past decisions as well. AUTHOR: Jean Hanff Korelitz |
 | CARRIE (2013) PLOT: Bullied at school by her peers and at home by her abusive religious mother, Carrie White (Chloe Grace Moretz) hits her breaking point. After believing she has finally been accepted by her classmates on prom night, she realizes after a cruel prank that she is still only a punch line to them. Soon no one is safe when she decides to unleash her evil telekinetic powers on everyone around her. AUTHOR: Stephen King |
 | HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN (2012) PLOT: The intense story of love between writer Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and his third wife, WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman). After their relationship blossomed covering the Spanish Civil War, it would seem that their daring lifestyle would bind these two forever but their similarities and competitive natures eventually drove them into the arms of others. AUTHOR: Jerome Tuccille |
 | WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING (2012) PLOT: No one knows exactly what to expect when they find out they have a baby on board. The book delves into what you need to know along the way to meeting your new child. The film takes it a step further comedically exploring the implementation of these tips during pregnancy as well as the surprises the new mothers (Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks, Brooklyn Decker, Anna Kendrick) and fathers experience. AUTHOR: Heidi Murkoff |
 | BEL AMI (2012) PLOT: After a stint in the military, Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson) takes a job as a newspaper reporter in Paris. He soon gains ground as his boss' wife, the lovely Madeleine Forestier (Uma Thurman), takes an interest in helping him further his career. Soon Georges finds himself trying to climb the social ladder through his romantic interactions with wealthy women scraping his way to top. AUTHOR: Guy de Maupassant |
 | RAVEN, THE (2012) PLOT: Little is known about the last days of dark poet Edgar Allan Poe's (John Cusack) life but according to this story it was anything but pleasant. He spends those days accompanying young Detective Fields around Baltimore in an effort to help him track down a killer who is basing his murders on Poe's literary works. With his only love at stake, his creative writing is truly put to the test. AUTHOR: Edgar Allan Poe |
 | LUCKY ONE, THE (2012) PLOT: U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) was destined to find the photograph of a mystery girl while serving overseas and it quickly becomes his lucky charm. His curiousity about lovely lady peaks and the first chance he gets he heads to North Carolina to find Beth Clayton. Rather than scare her off with his strange story, he keeps the secret to himself and gets a job close to home. Beth is cautious because she has a young child and a posessive ex-husand to consider but a relationship is inevitable. Can the couple survive after the secret shatters their reality? AUTHOR: Nicholas Sparks |
 | DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (2012) PLOT: Ted (Zac Efron) lives in an artificial world but strives to find a real tree for his love Audrey (Taylor Swift). In his venture to find this rare item, he stumbles upon the man who made it all happen, the Once-ler (Ed Helms). Through the environmental insight of The Lorax (Danny DeVito), Once-ler regrets the unnatural world he created and bestows the last tree seed upon Ted but is that gift in the right hands? AUTHOR: Dr. Seuss |
 | LIFE OF PI (2012) PLOT: A zookeeper decides to move his family from Pondicherry, India to Canada. They organize the animals, pack up and hop a boat to their future but not everything goes as planned. A shipwreck lands the zookeeper's son, Pi Patel, stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, a hyena, an orangutan and a zebra. The struggle to survive begins, finding Pi and the tiger alone before long. Pi reminisces about his life as he struggles emotionally and physically through the ordeal and loss of his family. What will become of him? AUTHOR: Yann Martel |
 | DOROTHY OF OZ (2012) PLOT: Dorothy Gale (Lea Michele) finds that her beloved Kansas is just a shadow of its former glory after the tornado hit. Soon she travels back to Oz where she is startled by the state of the land, the disappearance of her yellow brick road companions and the replacement of The Wizard. Since his departure The Jester (Martin Short) has taken over and no one is happy about it. Dorothy meets a new group of friends including a marshmallow man (Hugh Dancy), a tugboat (Patrick Stewart) and a china doll princess (Megan Hilty) who are determined to make things right again. AUTHOR: Roger S. Baum |
 | ONE FOR THE MONEY (2012) PLOT: After getting divorced due to her husband's infidelity, fired from her job as a buyer and struggling to pay her monthly expenses, Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl) decides that she needs to make some big changes. Turning to her bail bondsman cousin Vinnie and blackmailing him, she is able to land herself a job which sends her on the hunt for former romance gone awry Joe Morelli (Jason O'Mara). Will she get her man? AUTHOR: Janet Evanovich |
 | HUNGER GAMES, THE (2012) PLOT: Actress Jennifer Lawrence portrays heroine Katniss Everdeen, a teenage girl living in a post-apocalyptic America (now called Panem) who volunteers in place of her sister to fight to the death in the 74th Annual Hunger Games. The government holds the tournament each year in order to show its power in an effort to thwart future rebellions. The movie adaptation also stars Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks and Stanley Tucci. AUTHOR: Suzanne Collins |
