All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Elias Koteas, ranked

On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy’s lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin’s diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards.

In 1942, United States Army Private Witt goes AWOL from his unit to live among the carefree Melanesian natives in the South Pacific. Elsewhere on the ship, Lieutenant Colonel Tall, the aging battalion commander, mulls over the importance of the invasion, which he sees as his last chance for glory in combat.

Set mainly in 1913, the film is about Francis Ouimet, the first amateur to win the U.S. Open. Amateur golf in that era was a sport only for the wealthy, and Ouimet came from an immigrant family that was part of the working class. In the 1913 US Open, 20-year-old Francis Ouimet played golf against his idol, 1900 US Open champion, Englishman Harry Vardon.

USMC Force Recon Gunnery Sergeant Scout/Sniper Bob Lee Swagger is participating in a mission in Eritrea with his spotter and close friend Corporal Donnie Fenn. On the day of the Philadelphia speech, Swagger is working with Johnson’s men and Timmons, a Philadelphia police officer, to find the assassin.

In March 1983, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a disfigured man is taken to the hospital. While the detective answers a call outside the room, the disfigured man jumps out of the window, leaving behind a note that reads: ‘I’m sory Abby’. Two weeks earlier, Owen, an unhappy and lonely 12-year-old boy who is neglected by his divorcing parents, sees a barefoot young girl, Abby, and an older man moving in next door.

As a crime wave rises in New York City, reporter April O’Neil correctly theorizes that the mysterious ninja Foot Clan is behind the rising chaos. Four teenage mutant ninja turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from the gang of criminal ninjas.

As a crime wave rises in New York City, reporter April O’Neil correctly theorizes that the mysterious ninja Foot Clan is behind the rising chaos. Four teenage mutant ninja turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from the gang of criminal ninjas.

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.

Film producer James Ballard and his detached wife Catherine are in an open marriage. Their arousal is heightened by discussing the intimate details of their extramarital sex. When James replies he did not achieve satisfaction during his sexual encounter with one of his coworkers, Catherine replies, ‘maybe the next one’.

In 1952, Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of his small west Texas community; secretly, he is a sociopath with violent sexual tastes. As a teenager, Lou was caught raping a five-year-old girl by his adopted brother Mike, who pleaded guilty to the crime to protect Lou. Released from prison, Mike was hired by Chester Conway, and died in a construction accident Lou believes was staged by Conway.

Sonny lives with his intellectually disabled older brother Leroy and works as a bellhop in a hotel, struggling to pay back a loan to Jack Cougar, the head of hotel security. Everything changes when Monique a beautiful, suicidal nut-case checks in. Sonny is offered a part in a heist that goes wrong.

In 1603, in feudal Japan, a young man is being chased by four samurai on horseback. In the present, when their closest friend April O’Neil discovers an ancient scepter with magical powers, the turtles must cow-a-bunga their way back to 17th century Japan to rescue her from the evil clutches of Lord Norinaga.