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

In 1969, Dr. Malcolm Sayer is a dedicated and caring physician at a local hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City. After working extensively with the catatonic patients who survived the 1917–1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica, Sayer discovers certain stimuli will reach beyond the patients’ respective catatonic states.

Thirteen-year-old Josh Baskin, who lives with his parents and infant sister Rachel in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, is told that he is too short for a carnival ride called the Super Loops, while attempting to impress Cynthia Benson, an older girl. He inserts a coin into an unusual antique arcade fortune teller machine called Zoltar, and makes a wish to be ‘big’. The next morning, Josh has suddenly grown into a full-fledged adult.

In 1941, Jackson Pollock is living with his brother in a tiny apartment in New York City, drinking too much, and exhibiting an occasional painting in group shows. That’s when he meets artist Lee Krasner, who puts her career on hold to be his companion, lover, champion, wife, and, in essence, caretaker. To get him away from booze, insecurity, and the stress of city life, they move to the Hamptons where nature and sobriety help Pollock achieve a breakthrough in style.

When CC Bloom, a brazen Jewish girl from the Bronx, and Hillary Whitney, a timid and reserved WASP from San Francisco, first met on the beach in Atlantic City at the age of eleven, they had nothing in common. However, they both deeply desired a close friend and began a correspondence that spanned the years.

The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Miami, and gathers at Peter and Kate’s Chicago home. At the airport, Kevin loses sight of his family and inadvertently boards a flight to New York City. Arriving in New York, Kevin decides to tour the city.

After two Supreme Court justices, Jensen and Rosenberg, are killed by an assassin named Khamel, Tulane University law student Darby Shaw writes a legal brief detailing her theory on why they were killed. An informant calling himself Garcia contacts Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham with information about the assassinations, but suddenly disappears.

The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback ‘Dandy’ Don Meredith, along with Keith Jackson, and the combative Howard Cosell as commentators for the broadcasts, which become funny, odd trio events to millions of viewers.

Following the shocking discovery of a tragic mid-air explosion aboard Flight 274—piloted by her husband—Kathryn Lyons’ picture-perfect life abruptly comes crashing down. When the black box is found and alarming allegations about her spouse possibly being to blame for the crash are revealed, the tension increases. Could her husband have been a terrorist in disguise? Was everything she had done with him a lie?