All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Ben Shenkman, ranked

The story of a young man’s circuitous journey from drug dependency and petty crime to a life redeemed by his startling discovery of compassion. Set in the drug subculture of the 1970’s, a young man in his twenties careens through his days getting stoned, stealing, or scamming a quick buck. He is driven by an overwhelming desire to help those around him, to save them from their often sorry fates, but he repeatedly fails. Almost by a miracle, redemption does come to the young man.

Elizabeth Masterson, a young emergency medicine physician in San Francisco whose work is her whole life, is in a serious car accident while on her way to a blind date. Three months later, David Abbott, a landscape architect recovering from the sudden death of his wife, moves into the apartment that had been Elizabeth’s, after’discovering’ it in what seems to be a fateful happenstance.

Eager to start a family, schoolteacher April Epner is thrust into uncertainty when her husband unexpectedly leaves her. Her world is further shaken when she encounters her unconventional birth mother, a self-centered talk show host far from the ideal mom. Initially resistant to both her birth mother and the advances of a divorced father, April eventually discovers her life unfolding in unexpected ways.