The Blues Brothers. Poster of the 1980 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Blues Brothers
Miami Mitch, 1980
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John Landis, 1980

Blues vocalist and petty criminal Joliet Jake Blues is paroled on good behavior grounds from Joliet Correctional Center after serving three years of a five-year sentence, and is picked up by his blood brother Elwood in his Bluesmobile, a battered, decommissioned police car. The brothers visit the Roman Catholic orphanage where they were raised, and learn from Sister Mary the Penguin Stigmata and old friend Curtis that it will be closed unless $5,000 in property taxes is collected.


The Long Goodbye. Poster of the 1973 movie and cover of the 1953 book
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The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler, 1953
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Robert Altman, 1973

Late one night, private investigator Philip Marlowe is visited by his close friend Terry Lennox, who asks for a lift from Los Angeles to the California–Mexico border at Tijuana. Marlowe obliges. On returning home, Marlowe is met by two police detectives who accuse Lennox of having murdered his rich wife, Sylvia.


Charlotte's Web. Poster of the 1973 movie and cover of the 1952 book
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Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, 1952
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Charles A. Nichols, Iwao Takamoto, 1973

Early one morning, Fern Arable prevents her father John from slaughtering a piglet as the runt of the litter. The publicity eventually dies down, and, after a hornet lands in Charlotte’s web and ruins the SOME PIG message, Charlotte requests the barn animals to devise a new word to spin within her web.


The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Poster of the 1981 movie and cover of the 1956 book, The Shrinking Man
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The Shrinking Man
Richard Matheson, 1956
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Joel Schumacher, 1981

Pat Kramer of Tasty Meadows is an ordinary suburban housewife and mother of two children. Her husband Vance is an advertising executive. After exposure to an experimental perfume and other chemicals from her husband’s company, she begins to shrink, gradually at first, then rapidly.