All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Jim Beaver, ranked

The self-loathing Charlie Kaufman is hired to write the screenplay adaptation of Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief. Too shy and socially awkward to speak with her upon arriving at her office and after he received the surprising news that Donald’s spec script for a cliché psychological thriller, The 3, is selling for six or seven figures, Charlie resorts to attending McKee’s seminar in New York and asks him for advice.

David Gale is a professor on death row in Texas. With only a few days until his execution, his lawyer negotiates a half-million dollar fee to tell his story to Bitsey Bloom, a journalist from a major news magazine. He tells her how he ended up on death row, revealed through a series of lengthy flashbacks.

A former marine, seeking purpose in his life, encounters an unexpected obstacle when his jeep breaks down in a remote Wyoming town. While waiting for parts to repair his vehicle, he takes on a temporary job as a rest area attendant and becomes involved with a ranch operated by a one-legged widow and her mentally handicapped son.

In Buffalo, New York, 1887, American heiress Edith Cushing is the daughter of wealthy businessman Carter Cushing. In 1901, Edith, now a budding author, meets Sir Thomas Sharpe, an English baronet who has come to the United States with his sister, Lucille. Unimpressed with Sharpe’s previous failures to raise capital, Mr. Cushing rejects Thomas’s proposal.

He can only see two minutes ahead, with the exception of a vision he once had of a woman walking into a diner. Cris draws the attention of FBI agent Callie Ferris, who has figured out his ability and wants to stop Russian terrorists from detonating a nuclear weapon. Later that night, the casino’s security chief is approached by two of the terrorists, is interrogated about Johnson and is then killed.