Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 1978 book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett, 1978
movie vs book
Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, 2009

Flint Lockwood is an aspiring scientist who lives in Swallow Falls, a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that has sardines as the base of its economy, but the Baby Brent Sardines cannery has closed and gone bankrupt due to worldwide disgust of sardines as food, which was all the residents had to eat from then on. Flint lives with Tim, his widowed father, and his pet monkey, Steve. When Flint turns the machine back on, it ends up rocketing through town which accidentally destroys the town square of the Sardine Land before ultimately rocketing up into the sky.


Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Stacia Deutsch, 2009
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, 2009

Flint Lockwood is an aspiring scientist who lives in Swallow Falls, a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that has sardines as the base of its economy, but the Baby Brent Sardines cannery has closed and gone bankrupt due to worldwide disgust of sardines as food, which was all the residents had to eat from then on. Flint lives with Tim, his widowed father, and his pet monkey, Steve. When Flint turns the machine back on, it ends up rocketing through town which accidentally destroys the town square of the Sardine Land before ultimately rocketing up into the sky.


Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Stacia Deutsch, 2013
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn, 2013

Following the events of the first film, inventor Flint Lockwood and his friends celebrate their success in saving the world from the food storm created by the Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator. Chester shows Flint that the FLDSMDFR is still functioning and creating food-animal hybrids.


Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 1978 book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett, 1978
movie vs book
Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn, 2013

Following the events of the first film, inventor Flint Lockwood and his friends celebrate their success in saving the world from the food storm created by the Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator. Chester shows Flint that the FLDSMDFR is still functioning and creating food-animal hybrids.


The Dictator. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 2004 book, Zabiba and the King
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Zabiba and the King
Saddam Hussein, 2004
movie vs book
Larry Charles, 2012

General Aladeen has been the leader of the oil-rich North African nation of Wadiya since he was a child, after his father was accidentally killed in a hunting accident. After narrowly escaping an assassination attempt, Aladeen’s uncle and trusted advisor Tamir convinces him to travel to New York. However, Aladeen is met with hostility from exiled Wadiyans who want to overthrow his tyrannical regime.


What's Your Number?. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2006 book, 20 Times a Lady
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20 Times a Lady
Karyn Bosnak, 2006
movie vs book
Mark Mylod, 2011

In Boston, Ally Darling is a thirty-something woman who is struggling to make better decisions with her life. After making a list of all the men she slept with, she realizes that her number is nineteen, making her decide not to have sex with anyone else until she finds the one.