All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Dermot Mulroney, ranked

The title designates time and location: an unusually hot August in a rural area outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Violet’s middle daughter Ivy is single and the only one living locally; Barbara, her oldest, who has inherited her mother’s mean streak, arrives from Colorado with her husband Bill and 14-year-old daughter Jean.

Warren Schmidt is retiring from his position as an actuary with Woodmen of the World, a life insurance company in Omaha, Nebraska. He soon receives an information package with a photo of his foster child, a small Tanzanian boy named Ndugu Umbo, to whom he relates his life in a series of candid, rambling letters.

After realizing that new cars are being fitted with intermittent windshield wipers, a technology he invented, patented, and unsuccessfully attempted to sell, Robert Kearns initiates a groundbreaking lawsuit against the U.S. automotive industry.

John Ottway is a marksman for an oil company in Alaska, killing grey wolves that threaten the drillers. The next day, Ottway survives a plane crash with fellow oil workers, watching helplessly as Lewenden dies of his injuries. Ottway takes charge of the survivors and is attacked by a wolf and rescued by the group; they realize they are in the wolves’ territory and take turns keeping watch.

A father makes the heart-wrenching decision to separate his son from his twin sister at birth, concealing from both the mother and himself the fact that she was born with Down syndrome. This narrative is based on the novel by Kim Edwards.

A remarkable story inspired by the life of renowned Chickasaw cattleman Montford T. Johnson, a man who overcame great hardships to establish a ranching empire along the famous cattle highway of the American West, the Chisolm Trail.

Adam Carlson, a news reporter in Point Barrow, a small town in northern Alaska, can’t wait to land a job in a bigger market in the lower 48 states. Then, in October 1988, the story of a lifetime practically gets dropped into his lap: while befriending local Inupiat boy Nathan, a family of gray whales is discovered by them near the Arctic Circle, trapped by rapidly forming ice.

A cynical journalist decides to take a train from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles for Christmas to get inspiration for a story in honor of his late father. He gets to know the other passengers and runs into an old flame while aboard.

The movie is based on the book ‘Shooting Stars’ by LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger, and examines the early years of the basketball prodigy LeBron James.

After their flight is canceled due to stormy weather, neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Bass and photojournalist Alex Martin hire private pilot Walter to get them from Utah to Denver for connecting flights to Alex’s wedding in New York and Ben’s emergency surgery appointment in Baltimore. Stranded for days with dwindling supplies, Alex grows skeptical that they will be rescued, although Ben wants to wait for help with the plane’s wreckage.

Jolene is a young woman who embarks on a journey of self-discovery, navigating through a series of relationships and experiences. From her early years in foster care to her troubled adolescence, Jolene encounters various people, each leaving a lasting impact on her life.

Kat Ellis is a single New Yorker who returns to her parents’ house in London to be the maid of honor at her younger half sister Amy’s wedding. Kat intends to make her former flame, Jeffrey, jealous, but her plan backfires when Nick convinces everyone, including her, that they are madly in love.