All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Jeffrey Jones, ranked

In the winter of 1823, Antonio Salieri is committed to a psychiatric hospital after surviving a suicide attempt, during which he loudly confesses to murdering Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salieri, a devout Catholic, cannot fathom why God would endow such a great gift to Mozart instead of him, and concludes that God is using Mozart’s talent to mock Salieri’s mediocrity.

In suburban Chicago, near the end of the school year, high school senior Ferris Bueller fakes illness to stay at home. Ferris convinces his best friend Cameron Frye, who is legitimately absent due to illness (though a hypochondriac, which Ferris sees through), to help lure Ferris’s girlfriend, Sloane Peterson, from school on the pretext of her grandmother’s supposed death.

In 1952, Ed Wood is struggling to enter the film industry. Upon hearing of an announcement in Variety magazine that producer George Weiss is trying to purchase Christine Jorgensen’s life story, Ed meets with Weiss to direct a now fictionalized film titled I Changed My Sex! Ed then meets his longtime idol, horror film actor Bela Lugosi, with whom he becomes friends. Ed takes to film production with an unusual approach.

Kevin Lomax, a defense attorney from Gainesville, Florida, has never lost a case. After the jury delivers a not guilty verdict, the head of the firm, John Milton, offers Kevin a large salary and an upscale apartment if he joins the firm.

In 1799, New York City police constable Ichabod Crane is dispatched to the upstate Dutch hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, which has been plagued by a series of brutal decapitations: a wealthy father and son, and a widow. He, Young Masbath and Katrina, venture into the Western Woods, where a crone living in a cave reveals the location of the Horseman’s grave at the Tree of the Dead.

In 1799, New York City police constable Ichabod Crane is dispatched to the upstate Dutch hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, which has been plagued by a series of brutal decapitations: a wealthy father and son, and a widow. He, Young Masbath and Katrina, venture into the Western Woods, where a crone living in a cave reveals the location of the Horseman’s grave at the Tree of the Dead.

In 18th century France, the Marquise de Merteuil, a beautiful wealthy widow, learns from her cousin Madame de Volanges that Volanges’ 15-year-old daughter Cécile has been betrothed to a middle-age man named Gercourt, Merteuil’s own secret lover. Angered over the hypocrisy of Gercourt’s insistence on a virgin bride while keeping a lover of his own, his concealment of his upcoming marriage, and his slight of her character, Merteuil plans revenge.

Early one morning in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, a group of young village girls meet in the woods with a Barbadian slave named Tituba. One of the girls, Abigail Williams, kills a chicken and drinks the blood, wishing for John Proctor’s wife to die. They are discovered by Abigail’s uncle, Reverend Samuel Parris.

Eleanor and Frederick Little are intending to adopt a new family member. However, Stuart is greeted coldly by their younger son George, who refuses to acknowledge the mouse as his brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, who is disgusted at having a mouse for a master.

The Pest is a deranged con artist from Miami who is ready to become the prey of a hunter. As The Pest demonstrates in this hilarious high-speed hunt that careens from a neo-private Nazi’s island to the party-all-the-time streets of Miami’s South Beach, if you’re going to be a target, it’s best to be a moving target. The Pest, a coarse, crass, and infinitely creative character, eludes his predator while maintaining his attitude by assuming a wide range of ethnic identities.

27-year-old Howard the Duck lives on Duckworld, a planet similar to Earth, but inhabited by anthropomorphic ducks and orbited by twin moons. The woman introduces herself as Beverly Switzler, and decides to take Howard to her apartment and let him spend the night.

27-year-old Howard the Duck lives on Duckworld, a planet similar to Earth, but inhabited by anthropomorphic ducks and orbited by twin moons. The woman introduces herself as Beverly Switzler, and decides to take Howard to her apartment and let him spend the night.