Cape Fear. Poster of the 1991 movie and cover of the 1957 book, The Executioners
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The Executioners
John D. MacDonald, 1957
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Martin Scorsese, 1991

Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) is a lawyer living in North Carolina with his wife Leigh (Jessica Lange) and teenage daughter Danielle (Juliette Lewis). Unbeknownst to him, however, his former client is a naturally intelligent and single-minded psychopath; he learned how to read and studied law in prison, and even unsuccessfully appealed his own conviction several times.


Ghost World. Poster of the 2001 movie and cover of the 1998 comic book
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Ghost World
Daniel Clowes, 1998
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Terry Zwigoff, 2001

Best friends Enid and Rebecca face the summer after their high school graduation, with no plans for their future other than to find jobs and live together. Enid soon begins to feel sympathy for Seymour, and they follow him to his apartment building.


Alive. Poster of the 1993 movie and cover of the 1974 book
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Alive
Piers Paul Read, 1974
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Frank Marshall, 1993

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 flies over the Andes on October 13, 1972. The raucous rugby players and a few of their relatives and friends are eagerly looking forward to an upcoming match in Chile. Upon emerging from clouds, the plane encounters turbulence and collides with a mountain. Stranded in the snow swept Andes, the survivors are forced to use desperate measures to survive after a plane crash.


Stir of Echoes. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1958 book, A Stir of Echoes
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A Stir of Echoes
Richard Matheson, 1958
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David Koepp, 1999

Tom Witzky is a phone lineman living in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago with his pregnant wife Maggie and his son Jake, who possesses the ability to commune with the dead. At a party one evening, Tom challenges Maggie’s sister, Lisa, who is a believer in paranormal activity, to hypnotize him.


Bella Mafia. Poster of the 1997 movie and cover of the 1990 book
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Bella Mafia
Lynda La Plante, 1990
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David Greene, 1997

When a violent Mafia feud culminates in a shocking spree of murders, the women of the Luciano family decide to take matters into their own hands.


To Die For. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the 1992 book
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To Die For
Joyce Maynard, 1992
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Gus Van Sant, 1995

Suzanne Stone has always been obsessed with being on television, aspiring to become a world-famous broadcast journalist. She marries Larry Maretto, using his family restaurant business to keep herself financially stable, and takes a job as a part-time weather girl at a local cable station, WWEN, in the hopes of climbing the network ladder.


Message in a Bottle. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1988 book
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Message in a Bottle
Nicholas Sparks, 1988
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Luis Mandoki, 1999

Theresa Osborne, a former reporter, works as a researcher for the Chicago Tribune. She is fascinated by it and shows it to her colleagues. Later, they receive another letter of the same kind from one of the readers which was not addressed to Catherine, but typed on the same notepad. His name is Garrett Blake and he lives quietly on the Outer Banks of North Carolina near his father, Dodge.