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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Joan Cusack, ranked
Andy is 17 years old and preparing to leave for college. He has not played with his toys for years, and most have gone, except for Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Bullseye, Rex, Slinky, Hamm, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, the Aliens, and three toy soldiers. The toys narrowly escape and, believing Andy threw them away, get into a donation box in his mother’s car with Molly’s old Barbie doll, bound for Sunnyside Daycare.
Andy prepares to go to cowboy camp with Woody, but accidentally tears Woody’s arm during playtime. When Andy’s mother puts Wheezy in a yard sale, Woody rescues him from being sold, but is stolen in the process by a greedy toy collector named Al McWhiggin. Prospector explains the museum is only interested in the collection if it is complete, and without Woody, they will be returned to storage, which triggers Jessie’s claustrophobia.
Rob Gordon is a music-loving man with a poor understanding of women. After being dumped by his long-term girlfriend, Laura, he tries to understand how he failed in his relationships by seeking out his old partners. Two shoplifting, skateboarding teenagers, Vince and Justin, are an annoyance to them until Rob listens to a recording that they made as The Kinky Wizards.
Kate Fitzgerald has acute promyelocytic leukemia. As neither her parents, firefighter Brian and lawyer Sara, nor older brother Jesse are a genetic match, Dr. Chance, Kate’s oncologist, suggests designer in vitro fertilization. Anna is born as a savior sister.
Writer David Lipsky is dismayed to hear about the suicide of novelist David Foster Wallace in 2008. He had interviewed the author over a period of days twelve years earlier, following the publication of Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest, which received critical praise and became an international bestseller, a touchstone for numerous readers.
Gomez and Morticia Addams hire a nanny named Debbie Jellinsky to take care of their newborn son Pubert after his older siblings Wednesday and Pugsley’s failed attempts to murder him. Frustrated, Debbie forces him to cut ties with his family; when they try to visit Fester and Debbie at their home, they’re removed from the premises.
17-year-old and seven-months-pregnant Novalee Nation and her boyfriend Willy Jack Pickens are moving from Tennessee to California. Willy Jack abandons Novalee at the local Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. There, she meets Thelma Husband who presents her with a buckeye tree, and Moses Whitecotton, a local photographer who advises her to give her baby a strong name.
A cynical journalist decides to take a train from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles for Christmas to get inspiration for a story in honor of his late father. He gets to know the other passengers and runs into an old flame while aboard.
Rebecca Becky Bloomwood is a hardcore shopping addict who lives in New York City with her best friend Suze. However, the receptionist tells her there is an open position with the magazine Successful Saving, explaining that getting a job at Successful Saving could eventually lead to a position at Alette magazine.
On Christmas Eve in Laurel, Illinois, Julie Reyes runs into rising pop star, Stuart Bale, on a train. She reveals to Stuart she got accepted to Columbia University in New York and her mom is also deathly sick, but if she delays leaving, she will lose the scholarship. The pair goes sledding and meet Julie’s mom, Debbie.
In the small town of Oakey Oaks, which is populated by anthropomorphic animals, Chicken Little rings the school bell and warns everyone to run for their lives. His father, Buck Cluck, who was once a high school baseball star, assumes that this piece of sky was just an acorn that had fallen off the tree and had hit him on the head, making Chicken Little the laughingstock of the town.
A British art expert embarks on a journey across America with the intention of acquiring a rare Renoir painting in the South. However, the quest introduces him to a cast of eccentric characters along the way.