The Box. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 1970 book, Button, Button: Uncanny Stories
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Button, Button: Uncanny Stories
Richard Matheson, 1970
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Richard Kelly, 2009

In December 1976, financially desperate NASA engineer Arthur Lewis and his wife Norma find a package on their doorstep, containing a wooden box with a large red button. The mysterious and disfigured Mr. Steward arrives to deliver the key to unlock the button, and tells Norma that if the button is pushed, she will receive $1 million in cash, but someone she does not know will die.


A Carol Christmas. Poster of the 2003 movie and cover of the 1843 book, A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, 1843
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Matthew Irmas, 2003

Talk show host Carol Cartman is egotistical and sensationalistic. She generally handles her employees with icy contempt and is jaded and self-centered. Her late Aunt Marla trained her to act in this manner. Four ghosts teach a her a lesson, and just in time for Christmas, she changes her ways.