All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Austin Pendleton, ranked

Nemo is a young clownfish who lives with his father Marlin in an anemone in the Great Barrier Reef. On Nemo’s first day of school, Marlin unintentionally embarrasses him, and while Marlin is distracted with the teacher, Mr. Ray, Nemo defiantly sneaks away from the reef toward a speedboat, where he is captured by a pair of scuba divers.

Josh Waitzkin and his family discover that he possesses a gift for chess and they seek to nurture it. They hire a strict instructor, Bruce Pandolfini, who aims to teach the boy to be as aggressive as chess legend Bobby Fischer.

In a small Georgian community, Miss Amelia, a solitary bootlegger, reigns supreme. However, her disposition and benevolence shift upon the arrival of two men, Marvin Macy (her former spouse) and Cousin Lymon (a small, humpbacked individual asserting to be Miss Amelia’s relative).

After Riverside, Illinois couple Luther and Nora Krank see their daughter, Blair, depart for a Peace Corps assignment in Peru on the Sunday following Thanksgiving, empty nest syndrome sets in. Luther insists that they completely boycott the holidays, and eventually Nora agrees.