All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Maria Bello, ranked

Nick Naylor is a handsome, smooth-talking tobacco spokesman who attempts to influence the act of people in daily life and the vice-president of a tobacco lobby called the Academy of Tobacco Studies, which has been researching whether smoking tobacco causes lung diseases or not.

Tom Stall is a diner owner who lives in the small (fictional) town of Millbrook, Indiana, with a loving wife Edie, teenage son Jack, and daughter Sarah. He is caught by Carl, who, with Jack as his hostage, goes with his men to the Stall house and demands that Joey return to Philadelphia with them.

Being a homicide detective in New York is already a challenging job, but for Jane Timoney, it’s even tougher due to the male-dominated police department that makes earning respect an uphill battle. Jane finds herself as an outsider, recently transferred to a new precinct where a group of male cops is reluctant to grant her the benefit of the doubt. They suspect she got the job through an alleged illicit affair with her boss, adding to the obstacles she faces in gaining their trust.

Face down on the kitchen table of an underground abortionist, barely conscious and with two large bullet wounds in his back, lies career thief and former Marine Porter. The unlicensed doctor uses the whiskey he is drinking as sterilizing agent and digs out the bullets. Porter begins tracking down his estranged wife Lynn and former partner-in-crime Val Resnick.

Set in 1990 amid the Kuwait War of 1990–1991, Towelhead tells the coming-of-age story of a 13-year-old Lebanese American girl named Jasira. Jasira experiences a sexual awakening at her neighbor’s home, which is sparked in part by adult magazines she finds when baby-sitting the next-door neighbor boy Zack Vuoso.

The book club is the brainchild of fiftysomething six-time divorcée Bernadette, who develops the idea when she meets Prudie, a prim, married high school French teacher in her mid-20s, at a Jane Austen film festival. Bernadette plans to have six members discuss all of Austen’s six novels, with each member hosting the group once a month.

After catching his wife Amy having an affair with their friend Ted, mystery writer Mort Rainey retreats to his cabin at Tashmore Lake in upstate New York, depressed and suffering from writer’s block. That night, Mort’s dog, Chico, is found dead outside the cabin, along with a note from Shooter giving Mort three days to provide proof.

Disc-jockey-turned-actor Bob Crane develops a secret personal life, focusing on his relationship with John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert involved with the nascent home video market. Encouraged by Carpenter and enabled by his expertise, Crane becomes a sex addict obsessed with women and with recording his encounters using video and photographic equipment.

16-year old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious spirit named A who wakes up in the body of a different person every morning. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and A work each day to find each other, not knowing what the next day will bring.

Following a move to a suburban retirement community, initiated by her significantly older husband, Pippa Lee embarks on a period of self-reflection that leads her towards a silent nervous breakdown.

Tess Thorne, a successful crime-mystery writer, is invited to a library in upstate Massachusetts for a meet-and-greet with fans, but is scared of flying so drives to engagements even long distances away. It happens by an abandoned gas station and, having no signal for her cell phone, Tess hopes that someone will stop to help.

Adele is tormented by apparitions of her vanished daughter, Sarah, seemingly imprisoned in a realm known as The Dark, a mystical realm of departed souls. Shortly thereafter, Adele and her father James become entangled with a young girl who claims to have returned from the afterlife to guide them in rescuing Sarah.