All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Frances Mcdormand, ranked

Olive Kitteridge is a misanthropic and strict, but well-meaning, retired schoolteacher who lives in the fictional seaside town of Crosby, Maine. She is married to Henry Kitteridge, a kind, considerate man who runs a pharmacy downtown, and has a troubled son named Christopher, who grows up to be a podiatrist. For 25 years, Olive has experienced problems of depression, bereavement, jealousy, and friction with family members and friends.

Martin Vail is a Chicago defense attorney who loves the spotlight, and does everything that he can to get his high-profile clients acquitted on legal technicalities. Vail jumps at the chance to represent the young man, pro bono. During his meetings at the County jail with Stampler, Vail comes to believe that his client is innocent, much to the chagrin of Vail’s former lover, prosecutor Janet Venable.

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.

In 2011, Fern loses her job after the US Gypsum plant in Empire, Nevada shuts down; she worked there for years along with her husband who recently died. She takes a seasonal job at an Amazon fulfillment center through the winter. A friend and co-worker named Linda invites Fern to visit a desert winter gathering in Arizona organized by Bob Wells, which provides a support system and community for fellow nomads.

A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.

In 1989, Josey Aimes flees from her abusive husband back to her hometown in northern Minnesota with her children, Sammy and Karen, and moves in with her parents, Alice and Hank. Josey’s pursuit of and securing the job further strains her relationship with Hank, who also works at the mine and believes women shouldn’t be working there, so she and her children move in with Glory and her husband, Kyle.

Professor Grady Tripp is a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university. Grady’s third wife, Emily, has just left him, and he has failed to repeat the grand success of his first novel, published years earlier. He spends his free time smoking marijuana.

Eight Mennonite women gather one evening in a hay loft for a private meeting. Each of these women, along with more than a hundred other females in their colony, has endured nightly druggings and rapes at the hands of their colony’s men, whom they believe to be demonic beings sent to punish them for their crimes.

Following the events of the previous film, the penguins—Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private—and the chimpanzees Mason and Phil leave Africa for Monte Carlo in their modified airplane. When they do not return, Alex the lion convinces his friends Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe, and Gloria the hippopotamus that they should go find them and return to their home at the Central Park Zoo.

In an alternate history, the asteroid that would have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago passes safely over Earth. The caveboy then leads Arlo to a berry tree, where the caveboy fends off a large snake, amazing Arlo, and impressing Forrest Woodbush, a nearby eccentric Styracosaurus who wants to keep the boy.

In 1961, the Ark, a Cybertronian spacecraft carrying an invention capable of ending the war between the benevolent Autobots and the malevolent Decepticons, crash lands on the dark side of Earth’s Moon. The crash is detected on Earth by NASA, and President John F. Kennedy authorizes a mission to put a man on the Moon as a cover for investigating the spacecraft.

Georgie is perplexed by life. She fears losing her husband because she loves him so deeply, but her incessant demands are straining their marriage to the breaking point. Where can she go for assistance? Of course, there are the domestic women: Honora, Georgie’s mother; Clare, her sister; and, on her better days, even Grandma. But until a different kind of man enters her life, nothing in her chaotic life makes sense.