All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Michelle Williams, ranked

In 1905 Kansas, Oscar Diggs is a magician and con artist in a traveling circus. Oscar escapes in a hot air balloon but is sucked into a tornado that takes him to the Land of Oz. They encounter the flying monkey, Finley, who pledges a life debt to Oscar when he saves him from a lion. Oscar reveals his deception to Finley and forces him to maintain the idea that he is the wizard.

Elizabeth Lizzie Wurtzel is a 19-year-old accepted into Harvard with a scholarship in journalism. She begins a relationship with another student, Rafe, but after travelling to his home in Texas and discovering that his sister has an intellectual disability, Lizzie accuses Rafe of being’a creepy voyeur’ who gets off on witnessing the pain of others.

The film interlaces two stories set fifty years apart, switching frequently between them, with the older storyline filmed in black and white. Each tells the story of a child’s quest. In 1927, young deaf girl Rose runs away from her father’s New Jersey home to find her mother/idol, the actress Lillian Mayhew. In 1977, recently orphaned Ben, made deaf by a freak accident, runs away from his Minnesota home in search of his father.

In the aftermath of her husband and son’s disappearance, a young mother transforms her guilt into strength as she becomes the focal point of affection for two different men.

Following a humiliating incident in English class orchestrated by his teacher, Mr. Griffin, popular high school student Mark Kinney becomes determined to exact revenge. Teaming up with his friends, they devise a plan to kidnap Mr. Griffin, using Mark’s girlfriend Susan as bait, intending to expose Mr. Griffin’s true nature. However, the scheme takes a tragic turn when Mr. Griffin suffers a fatal heart attack during the ordeal.