All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Joan Plowright, ranked

The movie follows the challenges faced by a 12-year-old boy who escapes a Communist concentration camp through sheer determination. Armed only with a loaf of bread, a letter destined for someone in Denmark, and a compass to guide him, he embarks on a perilous journey to reach his destination.

In 1928, Arthur Spiderwick writes a Field guide about the many faeries he has encountered. After finishing the Book, he hides it away for fear of Mulgarath, a shapeshifting ogre who plans to use the Book’s secrets for evil. Eighty years later, recently divorced Helen Grace inherits and moves into the abandoned Spiderwick estate with her children, daughter Mallory and twin sons Jared and Simon.

American video game designer Roger Dearly lives with his pet Dalmatian Pongo in London. One winter evening, she has her henchmen, Jasper and Horace, break into their home and steal the puppies, while Roger and Anita are walking in the park with Pongo and Perdy.

Five-year-old Dennis Mitchell is a constant source of mischief, especially to his retired next door neighbor, Mr. George Wilson. Bringing the sleeping Mr. Wilson was an apology card, Dennis plays with Mr. Wilson’s dentures and loses the two front teeth, replacing them with Chiclets just before Mr. Wilson has picture taken for the local newspaper.

It is 1667 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and an uneasy truce exists between local Puritans and their neighbors, the Algonquian. Hester Prynne arrives overseas from England and while she waits for her husband she falls for a young minister. Sentenced to wear a scarlet A for adultery, Prynne is ostracized by the public, and a drummer boy is charged to follow her whenever she comes to town.

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel miserly businessman until one fateful Christmas Eve when he is visited by three spirits, sent show him how his unhappy childhood and maladaptive adult behavior over has let him a selfish, lonely, bitter old man.