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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Dustin Hoffman, 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.
After earning his bachelor’s degree from an East Coast college, Benjamin Braddock returns to his parents’ Pasadena, California home. However, Benjamin’s parents, unaware of the affair, are eager for their son to date Elaine and relentlessly pester him to ask her out, as does Mr. Robinson.
Henri Charrière, a safecracker nicknamed Papillon because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest, is wrongly convicted of murdering a pimp. One day, Papillon defends Dega from a sadistic guard and escapes into the jungle, but is captured and sentenced to two years in solitary confinement.
On June 17, 1972, security guard Frank Wills at the Watergate complex finds a door’s bolt taped over so that it will not lock. Woodward learns that the five men, four Cuban-Americans from Miami and James W. McCord, Jr., had electronic bugging equipment and are represented by a high-priced country club attorney.
Ted Kramer is a workaholic advertising executive who has just been assigned a new and very important account. Ted arrives home and shares the good news with his wife Joanna only to find that she is leaving him. After months of unrest, Ted and Billy learn to cope and gradually bond as father and son.
Joe Buck, a young Texan working as a dishwasher, quits his job and heads to New York City to become a male prostitute hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women. In New York Joe finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
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 boy is born in Paris, France in the year 1738. He is named Jean-Baptiste Grenouille and is fostered but is a difficult, solitary child and is eventually apprenticed to a local tanner. As a result he can perform apparently magical feats such as identifying bad vegetables by the worms they contain, or visitors as they approach the house, and can navigate in total darkness by the smell of objects around him.
After securing a grant to study stellar structures, American applied mathematician David Sumner moves with his glamorous young English wife Amy to her home village of Wakely in the Cornish countryside. Amy’s ex-boyfriend Charlie Venner, along with his cronies Norman Scutt, Chris Cawsey, and Phil Riddaway, immediately resent that the meek outsider has married one of their own.
In the Valley of Peace, a land in Ancient China inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, Po is a fan of kung fu, and idolizes the Furious Five-Tigress, Monkey, Crane, Viper, and Mantis-a group of kung fu masters trained by Master Shifu. However, Po is unable to pursue his dream of learning kung fu while he helps his adoptive father, Mr. Ping the goose, in his noodle restaurant.
Thomas’Babe’ Levy is a history Ph.D. student and an avid runner researching the same field as his father, H.V. Levy, who committed suicide after being investigated during the Joseph McCarthy era. After Dr. Szell’s brother is killed in a fit of road rage, Szell feels that he can’t trust anybody anymore and proceeds to try to have all of the diamond handlers and couriers murdered, including Doc himself.
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.