Blade Runner. Poster of the 1982 movie and cover of the 1968 book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick, 1968
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Ridley Scott, 1982

In 2019 Los Angeles, former policeman Rick Deckard is detained by Officer Gaff, and brought to his former supervisor, Bryant. Bryant has Deckard meet with the CEO of the company that creates the replicants, Eldon Tyrell, so he can administer the test on a Nexus-6 to see if it works.


The Iron Giant. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1968 book, The Iron Man
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The Iron Man
Ted Hughes, 1968
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Brad Bird, 1999

During the Cold War, shortly after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in October 1957, an object from space crashes in the ocean just off the coast of Maine and then enters the forest near the town of Rockwell. Hogarth evades Mansley and leads the Giant to a junkyard owned by beatnik artist Dean McCoppin, who reluctantly agrees to keep him.


Ordinary People. Poster of the 1980 movie and cover of the 1976 book
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Ordinary People
Judith Guest, 1976
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Robert Redford, 1980

The Jarretts are an upper-middle-class family in suburban Chicago trying to return to normal life after the accidental death of their older teenage son, Buck, and the attempted suicide of their younger and surviving son, Conrad. Conrad, however, still struggles to communicate and re-establish a normal relationship with his parents and schoolmates, including Stillman, with whom he gets into a fistfight.


Reds. Poster of the 1981 movie and cover of the 1919 book, Ten Days that Shook the World
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Ten Days that Shook the World
John Reed, 1919
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Warren Beatty, 1981

In 1915, married socialite Louise Bryant encounters the radical journalist John Reed for the first time at a lecture in Portland, Oregon, and is intrigued with his idealism. After meeting him for an interview on international politics that lasts an entire night, she realizes that writing has been her only escape from her frustrated high-society existence.


Fletch. Poster of the 1985 movie and cover of the 1974 book
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Fletch
Gregory McDonald, 1974
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Michael Ritchie, 1985

Los Angeles Times undercover reporter Irwin M. Fletch Fletcher is writing an article exposing drug trafficking on the beaches of Los Angeles. While posing as an addict, he is approached by Boyd Aviation executive vice president Alan Stanwyk, who assumes Fletch is a real junkie.


Cannery Row. Poster of the 1982 movie and cover of the 1954 book, Sweet Thursday
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Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck, 1954
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David S. Ward, 1982

The story is about the skid row denizens of Monterey, California, during World War II. Doc, a self-employed marine biologist, lives in a dockside warehouse and researches octopi. Suzy DeSoto, a girl from the local bordello, is working there only out of necessity. A collection of linked vignettes describes life on Cannery Row. Doc and Suzy don’t quite fit in, but are accepted.


Cannery Row. Poster of the 1982 movie and cover of the 1945 book
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Cannery Row
John Steinbeck, 1945
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David S. Ward, 1982

The story is about the skid row denizens of Monterey, California, during World War II. Doc, a self-employed marine biologist, lives in a dockside warehouse and researches octopi. Suzy DeSoto, a girl from the local bordello, is working there only out of necessity. A collection of linked vignettes describes life on Cannery Row. Doc and Suzy don’t quite fit in, but are accepted.


Shriver. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2013 book
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Shriver
Chris Belden, 2013
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Michael Maren, 2023

Shriver, a handyman living in New York City, is mistaken for a famous reclusive author with whom he shares a name. Shriver accepts an invitation to attend a university writer’s festival to deliver a keynote address where he meets Hudson’s Simone Cleary, an English professor. Shriver plays a dicey game as feelings bubble between the two as he continues to pretend to be the author she believes him to be.


Christmas with the Kranks. Poster of the 2004 movie and cover of the 2001 book, Skipping Christmas
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Skipping Christmas
John Grisham, 2001
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Joe Roth, 2004

After Riverside, Illinois couple Luther and Nora Krank see their daughter, Blair, depart for a Peace Corps assignment in Peru on the Sunday following Thanksgiving, empty nest syndrome sets in. Luther insists that they completely boycott the holidays, and eventually Nora agrees.


Wild Wild West. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Wild Wild West
Bruce Bethke, 1999
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Barry Sonnenfeld, 1999

In 1869, four years after the end of the American Civil War, U.S. Army Captain James T. Jim West and U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon hunt for ex-Confederate General Bloodbath McGrath, who was responsible for killing West’s parents. Announcing his intention to capture President Grant at the golden spike ceremony, he leaves the duo in a deadly trap which they evade.