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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. |
 | 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 |
 | BREAKING DAWN: PART 2 (2012) PLOT: In the fourth installment of the Twilight book series, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) make it official and get married. Soon, they are unexpectedly expecting which threatens the life of Bella unless some quick thinking is done. When they are graced with their new baby girl Renesmee, it marks the start of a new beginning for Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer |
 | JOHN CARTER (2012) PLOT: John Carter, portrayed in the movie by Taylor Kitsch, is a Civil War veteran who while hiding in an Arizona cave from a band of Apaches is mysteriously transported to Mars, where he encounters 12-foot tall green barbarians who take him prisoner. Conditioned to the Earth's gravity, John is stronger than most of the martians, allowing him to escape and encounter Princess Dejah Thoris, who has been searching for a savior. The story first appears in author Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series. AUTHOR: Edgar Rice Burroughs |
 | SAVAGES (2012) PLOT: After refusing to go into business with the Mexican drug cartel, two marijuana growers, Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch), go to rescue their girlfriend, O (Blake Lively), who was kidnapped because of the disagreement. AUTHOR: Don Winslow |
 | PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, THE (2012) PLOT: High school freshman Charlie (Logan Lerman) feels alone in the world after the suicide of his only friend. He soon begins writing anonymously to get his thoughts out as he navigates through coming of age issues. Luckily for Charlie, he is guided by his lovely new friend Sam (Emma Watson) and a caring teacher. AUTHOR: Stephen Chbosky |
 | GREAT EXPECTATIONS (2012) PLOT: Pip (Jeremy Irvine) is an orphan who is struggling to cope with the loss of his family. During an unlikely encounter, he helps an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch (Ralph Fiennes), who later returns the favor as an anonymous benefactor. Pip's life becomes complicated when he discovers a connection between long time friend Mrs. Havisham's (Helena Bonham Carter) daughter and his fugitive friend. AUTHOR: Charles Dickens |
 | ANNA KARENINA (2012) PLOT: Caught in a loveless marriage, Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley) finds love in another man, Count Vronsky. After leaving her well to do husband, the two flee the country to be together. Soon she finds that her new life is not all she expected it to be and finds a way to end all the pain. AUTHOR: Leo Tolstoy |
 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (2012) PLOT: Before Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) even considered running for President, he had another goal in mind. Holding a grudge from the death of his mother, Lincoln wanted to kill all vampires. Soon, with the help of vampire Henry Sturges, he discovers that not all of them are bad and that he can make a difference in bigger ways by stopping their livelihood through abolishing the slave trade. After dedicating his life to eradicating the enemy, he may just give in to them. AUTHOR: Seth Grahame-Smith |
 | MIRROR MIRROR (2012) PLOT: It is Snow White (Lily Collins) like you have never seen her before. This comedic spin on a classic tale has the Evil Queen (Julia Roberts) not only banishing the fair girl to keep control of the throne but also trying to marry a young suitor named Prince Andrew Alcott (Armie Hammer). Who gets the man and the kingdom? AUTHOR: Brothers Grimm |
| SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN (2012) PLOT: Evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron) has discovered that the fair Snow White (Kristen Stewart) is destined to rule her kingdom. The only way to keep her throne is to kill the girl, but Snow White has other plans and flees. With the help of seven dwarves, a true love and a huntsman, she may make it out alive to claim the throne that is rightfully hers. AUTHOR: Brothers Grimm |
 | GREAT GATSBY, THE (2012) PLOT: Leonardo DiCaprio takes on the title role in director Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Luhrmann, who previously directed the musically infused Moulin Rouge! and Romeo + Juliet (also starring DiCaprio), promises to remain true to the novel, which tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a millionaire who pines for his lost love Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan). Tobey Maguire takes on the role of the book's narrator and Gatsby's neighbor, Nick Carraway. AUTHOR: F. Scott Fitzgerald |
 | RUM DIARY, THE (2011) PLOT: Loosely based on author Thompson's real life, The Rum Diary follows journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) as his life starts to drift away and he settles into writing for a Puerto Rican newspaper during the fifties. Although his ambition is not gone, it is clouded by alcohol and other destructive behavior that he battles while watching everything crumble around him. At times it seems that things can't get any worse but they do. AUTHOR: Hunter S. Thompson |
 | RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (2011) PLOT: Apes may not rule the world yet but it isn't inconceivable. As the film shows, nature can be unpredictable. The movie illustrates how the book's descriptions of apes living like humans with modern cities, technology and education aren't a stones throw away given the controversial experimentation currently used to find cures for diseases. The positive and negative possibilities are endless. AUTHOR: Pierre Boulle |
 | MONTE CARLO (2011) PLOT: A group of women take a trip to Monte Carlo where they disguise themselves as some of the wealthiest women of the world. The film version follows a group of young ladies, in particular Grace (Selena Gomez) who finds herself impersonating a celebrity with a strikingly similar appearance. With the rest of the girls acting as Grace's entourage, the group indulges in the benefits of fame until the fairytale inevitably comes to an end. AUTHOR: Jules Bass |
 | COOL HAND LUKE (1967) PLOT: Paul Newman delivers what is arguably his most memorable performance as Luke, a war hero turned convict who refuses to conform to the prison's idea of rehabilitation. His refusal to be broken by the system inspires his fellow convicts to follow his lead. Author Donn Pearce wrote the character to be 28-years-old in the book, but Newman, who was 42 at the time, gives the character a sensibility that can only come with age. AUTHOR: Donn Pearce |
 | HUGO (2011) PLOT: Directed by Martin Scorcese, Hugo stars Asa Butterfield as Hugo Cabret, an orphan who lives in the walls of a Paris train station at the turn of the 20th century. His recently deceased father (Jude Law), a clockmaker, had been employed at a museum. It was there that he showed Hugo a large robot full of intricate and complex inner workings. With the help of a studios girl, a stolen key, a beloved notebook, a puzzling drawing and an undiscovered message from his late father, will Hugo be able to unravel the mystery surrounding the broken machine? The Hugo movie adaptation also stars Chloe Moretz, Christopher Lee and Sacha Baron Cohen. AUTHOR: Brian Selznick |
 | DELIVERANCE (1972) PLOT: Four men from the city embark on a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee River in Georgia's back-country. Their peaceful outing turns into a nightmare as they become hunted by strange locals who know the woods much better than they do. Starring Burt Reynolds, John Voight, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox, the movie's fame can be in part contributed to several disturbing but memorable scenes. AUTHOR: James Dickey |
 | ONE DAY (2011) PLOT: Every year Emma (Anna Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess), friends who met at the end of college, get together. After twenty years of annual meetings they realize that perhaps there is more to their relationship, despite having established their own lives apart from each other. AUTHOR: David Nicholls |
 | JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (2011) PLOT: Third-grader Judy Moody (Jordana Beatty) is determined to have the summer of her life but her parents plans look like they are going to derail her fun. Aunt Opal (Heather Graham) steps up to the plate and a summer full of adventures begin to unfold in front of them. AUTHOR: Megan McDonald |
 | DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: RODRICK RULES (2011) PLOT: Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) is chronicling another year of his adventures as a junior high school student. This time he is battling it out with his older brother Rodrick after their parents try to force them to bond. AUTHOR: Jeff Kinney |
 | UNKNOWN (2011) PLOT: Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) has it all until a car accident in Paris leaves him in a coma. When he awakens, he remembers who he is and everything seems fine until he travels home. His wife and friends do not know him and another man going by Dr. Martin Harris (Aidan Harris) is living there with all his memories. How can this be? AUTHOR: Didier Van Cauwelaert |
