All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Lasse Hallstrom

In the small town of Endora, Iowa, Gilbert Grape is busy caring for Arnie, his mentally impaired brother who is turning 18, as they wait for the many tourists’ trailers to pass through town during an annual Airstreamers’ Club gathering at a nearby recreational area. With Bonnie’s morbid obesity leaving her unable to care for her children on her own, Gilbert has taken responsibility for repairing the old house and being protective to Arnie, who has a habit of climbing the town water tower, while his sisters Amy and Ellen do the rest.

Homer Wells, an orphan, grows up in a Maine orphanage directed by kindly, avuncular Dr. Wilbur Larch. Homer, the oldest among the orphans, is very bright, helpful and even-tempered, so Larch trains him in obstetrics and abortions as an apprentice, despite Homer’s never having attended high school.

A Konkani Muslim Kadam family ran a restaurant in Mumbai. He shops with her for sea-food and is a connoisseur of sea-food from childhood who can same smell fish to find out the best quality one. Abbu Kadam and his family evacuate the guests, but ammi dies in the fire.

Vianne Rocher, an expert chocolatier and her six-year-old daughter Anouk, drift across Europe following the north wind. In 1959, they travel to a quiet French village that closely adheres to tradition, as dominated by the village mayor, the Comte de Reynaud. The Comte will not admit that his wife has left him.

In the 1950s, a feral beagle/German Shepherd/terrier mix puppy wonders what life’s true purpose is. Weeks later, while playing with his siblings, he is caught by dog catchers, is whisked away to the dog pound and is quickly euthanized, wondering if fun truly is life’s purpose.

Einar Gilkyson quietly lives in the rugged Wyoming ranchlands alongside his only trusted friend, Mitch Bradley. One day, the woman he blames for the death of his only son arrives at his door broke, desperate and with a granddaughter he’s never known. But even as buried anger and accusations resurface, the way is opened for unexpected connection, adventure and forgiveness.

Fisheries expert Alfred Jones receives an email from financial adviser Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, seeking advice on a project to bring salmon fishing to the Yemen—a project being bankrolled by a wealthy Yemeni sheikh and supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Alfred dismisses the project as ‘fundamentally unfeasible’ because Yemen cannot provide the necessary environment for salmon.

A terrified woman, Erin, flees her house in Boston, having been in the possession of a bloody knife. At the general store, she introduces herself as Katie. After getting a job as a waitress, and renting a small house on the edge of town, Katie befriends her neighbor, Jo. She over-reacts negatively to the kind gesture, not wishing to ‘owe anything to anyone’.

When Quoyle was a young boy, his father tossed him into a lake, expecting him to swim naturally. Images of flailing in water and nearly drowning often resurface in Quoyle’s memory when he is under stress. Quoyle, now an ink setter at a small newspaper in Poughkeepsie, New York, lives a lonely life. He becomes infatuated with and marries a vivacious local woman named Petal.

Early in 1971, the publishing company McGraw-Hill passes on Clifford Irving’s new novel. He’s desperate for money, so, against the backdrop of Nixon’s reelection calculations, Irving claims he has Howard Hughes’s cooperation to write Hughes’s autobiography. With the help of friend Richard Suskind, Irving does research, lucks into a manuscript written by a long-time Hughes associate, and plays on corporate greed.

In 2003, while serving in the United States Army Special Forces, Staff Sergeant John Tyree is shot in Afghanistan. Two years earlier in Spring 2001, John is on leave in Charleston, South Carolina. Savannah invites John to a bonfire party where he meets her neighbor, Tim, and his autistic son, Alan.

On Christmas Eve in Victorian London, Benjamin Stahlbaum gives his children Louise, Clara, and Fritz the presents his wife Marie had set aside for them before she died. Clara receives an egg-shaped box which she is unable to unlock, together with a note saying Everything you need is inside.