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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Mackenzie Phillips

Mackenzie Phillips appears in The Jacket, the film adaptation of the book by Jack London The Star Rover, first published in 1914.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
American Graffiti. Poster of the 1973 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Complete American Graffiti
John Minahan, 1979
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American Graffiti
George Lucas, 1973

On their last evening of summer vacation in 1962, high school graduates and friends Curt Henderson and Steve Bolander meet two other friends, John Milner, the drag-racing king, and Terry The Toad Fields, in the parking lot of Mel’s Drive-In in Modesto, California. one of his friends tells him The Blonde is the wife of a local jeweler, but Curt does not believe it.

The Jacket. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 1914 book, The Star Rover
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The Star Rover
Jack London, 1914
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The Jacket
John Maybury, 2005

After miraculously recovering from an apparently fatal bullet wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks returns to Vermont in 1992, suffering from periods of amnesia. While walking, he sees a young girl, Jackie, and her alcoholic mother in despair beside their broken-down truck. Starks and Jackie quickly form a certain affinity; she asks him to give her his dogtags and he does so.