All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring John Cusack, ranked

In 1942, United States Army Private Witt goes AWOL from his unit to live among the carefree Melanesian natives in the South Pacific. Elsewhere on the ship, Lieutenant Colonel Tall, the aging battalion commander, mulls over the importance of the invasion, which he sees as his last chance for glory in combat.

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.

In 2009, an elderly Cecil Gaines recounts his life story while waiting at the White House to meet the newly inaugurated president. Cecil was a sharecropper’s son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family. Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history.

In 1919, the Chicago White Sox are considered among the greatest baseball teams ever assembled; however, the team’s stingy owner, Charles Comiskey, gives little inclination to reward his players for a spectacular season. A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.

In New Orleans, a shooting takes place at a stock brokerage firm. Two years later, with attorney Wendell Rohr, Jacob’s widow Celeste takes Vicksburg Firearms to court on the grounds that the company’s gross negligence led to her husband’s death.

Lilly Dillon is a veteran con artist. She works for Bobo Justus, a mob bookmaker, making large cash bets at race tracks to lower the odds of longshots. On her way to La Jolla for the horse races, she stops in Los Angeles to visit her son Roy, a small-time grifter whom she has not seen in eight years.

Mike Enslin is a writer of non-fiction works based on the theme of haunted places: Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards, and Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Castles. They prove to be best-sellers, but Enslin feels some guilt at their success, privately acknowledging that he does not believe in the paranormal and supernatural elements he investigates.

In a desperate quest to establish a sense of family, a writer makes the life-altering decision to adopt a 6-year-old boy. However, the boy, yearning deeply for a father figure, grapples with his own inner turmoil, as he harbors a belief that he might be an extraterrestrial being hailing from Mars.

The alleged murder of Billy Hanson occurred in Williams’ study – the bottom left room in this photograph. John Kelso, a magazine reporter with one book — Before the Fall — to his name, finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature for Town & Country on one of Williams’ famous Christmas parties.

In reality, Robert Oppenheimer held the scientific leadership of the Manhattan Project, a covert wartime initiative located in New Mexico, responsible for the creation and construction of the initial atomic bombs. Overseeing the project as a whole was General Leslie Groves. This movie depicts the project’s events, focusing particularly on the dynamic between Oppenheimer and Groves.

A contemporary tale exploring the demons of our celebrity-obsessed society. Stafford Weiss is a psychotherapist and life coach who made his fortune with self-help books. His wife is the overbearing mother-manager of their 13-year-old son, a TV star recently out of drug rehab. Their estranged daughter has just been released from a psychiatric hospital and befriended a limo driver who is also an aspiring actor.

Sarah Nolan, an attractive 40-year-old divorced preschool teacher, is urged by her family to date more. Although they show her photos of men with whom they want to set her up, Sarah does not seem interested in pursuing any relationships. Jake Anderson, another recent divorcé, finds himself in a similar position.