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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Karen Allen, ranked
In 1936, American archaeologist Indiana Jones overcomes an ancient booby-trapped temple in Peru to retrieve a golden idol. Jones travels to Nepal to recover the headpiece of the staff of Ra, an artifact used to locate the Ark, from his old mentor Abner Ravenwood. The sadistic Nazi commander, Arnold Toht, flanked by mercenaries, arrives at Marion’s bar to recover the headpiece.
Following the Civil War, Union veteran Cyrus Trask has two sons: Adam, a gentle, idealistic soul; and Charles, a hellraiser. Cyrus favors Adam and Charles is very aware of it, creating friction between the brothers. Cyrus, by now an influential diplomat who has amassed a fortune by embezzling from the government, pulls strings to get Adam into West Point. Adam rebels, however, and goes off to lead the life of a vagabond.
In the Mid-Coast town of Camden, Maine, Matt and Ruth Fowler enjoy a happy marriage and a good relationship with their son Frank, a recent college graduate who has come home for the summer. Frank has fallen in love with a divorced older woman with children, Natalie Strout.
In the Bronx, Richie, Joey, and Perry, seniors at Tully High School, are members of a gang known as the Wanderers. It is the autumn of 1963, and although the setting is specific, their trials and tribulations are relatable to people everywhere: navigating love, enduring the challenges of school life, and protecting their territory against rival groups such as the Fordham Baldies, the Del Bombers, and the Ducky Boys.
IBC Television president Frank Cross is pushing his company to broadcast an extravagant live production of A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve, making the staff work throughout the holiday. Frank’s boss Preston Rhinelander, seeing the stress Frank is under with the production, brings in Brice Cummings to provide assistance, though Brice secretly wants Frank’s job.
Launched in 1977, the Voyager 2 space probe carried a gold phonographic disk with a message of peace, inviting alien civilizations to visit Earth. Instead of greeting the alien craft, the U.S. government shoots it down. He then uses the second sphere to create a holographic map of the United States, coercing Jenny into taking him to the rendezvous point in Arizona.
In October 1991, the commercial fishing boat Andrea Gail returns to port in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a poor catch. Desperate to redeem himself, Captain Tyne convinces the Andrea Gail crew to join him for one more late-season fishing expedition. The crew heads out past their usual fishing grounds on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, leaving a developing tropical storm behind them.
In New York City’s Central Park, people begin dying by mass suicide. When Julian learns that his wife has left Boston for Princeton, he decides to go look for her, and entrusts Jess to the Moores.
In 1980, Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, when her husband George lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, she finds herself increasingly isolated and alone. She soon senses a sinister darkness lurking in the old house, and in her marriage to George.