All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Barry Levinson, ranked

Charlie Babbitt is in the middle of importing four grey market Lamborghinis to Los Angeles for resale. Through social engineering, he learns the money is being directed to a mental institution, where he meets his elder brother, Raymond Babbitt, of whom he was previously unaware.

Lorenzo Carcaterra, Tommy Marcano, Michael Sullivan, and John Reilly are childhood friends in Hell’s Kitchen in the mid-1960s. However, they start running small errands for a local gangster, King Benny. There, the boys are physically and sexually abused by guards Sean Nokes, Henry Addison, Ralph Ferguson, and Adam Styler.

A look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian. In 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian astonished the world as he took the end-of-life debate head-on with his ‘Mercitron’ and performed his first assisted suicide. “The movie follows Kevorkian as he builds his infamous Mercitron and starts a media frenzy with his epic legal battles defending a patient’s fight to die.

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. Hobbs lives the fame he should have had earlier when, as a rising pitcher, he is inexplicably shot by a young woman.

Post World War II, Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by memories and guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to find his first love again.

The president is caught making advances on an underage girl inside the Oval Office, less than two weeks before the election. Inspired by the idea that he was discarded like an old shoe, Brean and Motss ask the Pentagon to provide a special forces soldier with a matching name around whom a POW narrative can be constructed.

The story of Bernard Madoff, who founded his company on Wall Street in the early 1960s, which, over time, turned into one of the largest investment funds. Madoff himself had enjoyed a reputation as a successful and influential financier, broker, financial consultant, and generous philanthropist until 2008 when it became known that over the past 16 years his firm had turned into the largest financial pyramid in history.

Ali’s most significant battle unfolds outside the boxing ring as he confronts the might of the US government. This film delves into the intricate world of politics and arrogance during the Vietnam War, highlighting the repercussions faced by America’s most revered athlete of the 20th century when he boldly defied military service.

A spacecraft, presumed to be of alien origin, is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, estimated to have been there for nearly 300 years. The ship’s computer logs cryptically suggest a mission that originated either in the distant past or future, but the team manages to deduce that the long dead crew were tasked with collecting an item of scientific importance.

Tom Sanders is a manager at a computer company in Seattle. Happily married with children, Tom had big hopes for a promotion by his boss, but it goes to Meredith Johnson, Tom’s seductive ex-girlfriend, instead. Tom’s only choice; to sue for sexual harassment. Tom discovers not only is the system rigged against him, but Meredith’s going to destroy his career, and bolster her own by blaming him for a serious error of judgment on her part.

Simon Axler is an aging actor who suffers from bouts of dementia. He is institutionalized after an incident during a Broadway play, then returns home, where he contemplates suicide in Hemingway style. When he embarks upon an affair with an ex-girlfriend’s amoral bisexual daughter, his world starts to fall apart.

Filmmaker Ben is followed as he interacts with immature directors and actors, attends to the demands of numerous ex-wives, and closes multi-million dollar deals while driving. With Sean Penn and Bruce Willis as themselves, the movie combines imagination and reality as a fake director and producer argue over the editing of a new movie.