Short Cuts. Poster of the 1993 movie and cover of the 1993 book, Short Cuts: Selected Stories
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Short Cuts: Selected Stories
Raymond Carver, 1993
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Robert Altman, 1993

Grand in scope yet intricately detailed, the film intertwines the narratives of twenty-two characters as they grapple with the search for comfort and purpose in modern-day Los Angeles.


Runaway Jury. Poster of the 2003 movie and cover of the 1996 book, The Runaway Jury
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The Runaway Jury
John Grisham, 1996
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Gary Fleder, 2003

In New Orleans, a shooting takes place at a stock brokerage firm. Two years later, with attorney Wendell Rohr, Jacob’s widow Celeste takes Vicksburg Firearms to court on the grounds that the company’s gross negligence led to her husband’s death.


The Crucible. Poster of the 1996 movie and cover of the 1953 book
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The Crucible
Arthur Miller, 1953
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Nicholas Hytner, 1996

Early one morning in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, a group of young village girls meet in the woods with a Barbadian slave named Tituba. One of the girls, Abigail Williams, kills a chicken and drinks the blood, wishing for John Proctor’s wife to die. They are discovered by Abigail’s uncle, Reverend Samuel Parris.


Apt Pupil. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the 1982 book
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Apt Pupil
Stephen King, 1982
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Bryan Singer, 1998

In Southern California in 1984, 16-year-old high school student Todd Bowden discovers that his elderly neighbor, Arthur Denker, is in reality Kurt Dussander — a former Sturmbannführer in the SS who is now a fugitive war criminal hiding from justice. Talking about the war crimes affects both the old man and the young boy, and an intoxicated Dussander attempts to kill a cat in his gas oven but fails when it attacks him and escapes.


Spies Like Us. Poster of the 1985 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Spies Like Us
Gordon McGill, 1985
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John Landis, 1985

Austin Millbarge is a basement-dwelling codebreaker at the Pentagon who aspires to escape his under-respected job to become a secret agent. Following orders in real-time from the intelligence agency (operating from a military bunker located deep under an abandoned drive-in theater), they begin to operate the launcher.


High Crimes. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the 1998 book
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High Crimes
Joseph Finder, 1998
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Carl Franklin, 2002

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he’s being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.


Love Locks. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Love Locks
Cory Martin, 2021
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Martin Wood, 2017

Twenty years after she was last in Paris, Lindsey Wilson returns to the City of Light, where she reconnects with Jack Burrow, her college boyfriend and first love.


At First Sight. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1995 book, To See and Not See
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To See and Not See
Oliver Sacks, 1995
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Irwin Winkler, 1999

The journey of a young woman architect who falls in love with a blind man. Encouraging him to undergo a transformative operation to regain his sight, she soon realizes that his most profound vision stems from the love he discovers within his heart.


Last Rampage: The Escape of Gary Tison. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 1988 book
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Last Rampage: The Escape of Gary Tison
James W. Clarke, 1988
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Dwight H. Little, 2017

The film tells the true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenawalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, AZ in the summer of 1978.


Suitable Flesh. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 1937 book, The Thing on the Doorstep
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The Thing on the Doorstep
H.P. Lovecraft, 1937
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Joe Lynch, 2023

Psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby becomes fixated on assisting a young patient grappling with a severe personality disorder, inadvertently plunging herself into occult peril as she attempts to evade a terrifying destiny.