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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by John Crowley, ranked
Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the road one day, the young Englishman notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But, when a local newspaper unearths his past, Jack must cope with the anger of citizens who fear for the safety of their children.
In 1951, Eilis Lacey is a young woman from Enniscorthy, County Wexford, a small town in southeast Ireland, where she lives with her mother and sister, Rose. Father Flood gets her enrolled in Brooklyn College bookkeeping classes, as Eilis wants to become an accountant.
Ursula Todd dies shortly after being born in 1910, but is reborn and lives multiple lives over the course of the century. She experiences different circumstances and encounters major events, including both world wars and an encounter with Hitler.
John Crowley and his wife, Aileen, are a Portland couple with two of their three children suffering from Pompe disease, a genetic anomaly that typically kills most before a child’s tenth birthday. John, an advertising executive, contacts Robert Stonehill, a researcher in Nebraska who has done innovative research for an enzyme treatment for the rare disease.
Thirteen-year-old Theodore Decker’s mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In the aftermath of the explosion, a dying man urges him to take a painting and his engraved ring. Theo hides the painting at his apartment, and is placed with the Barbours, the family of his childhood friend Andy.