All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Nicolas Cage, ranked

The self-loathing Charlie Kaufman is hired to write the screenplay adaptation of Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief. Too shy and socially awkward to speak with her upon arriving at her office and after he received the surprising news that Donald’s spec script for a cliché psychological thriller, The 3, is selling for six or seven figures, Charlie resorts to attending McKee’s seminar in New York and asks him for advice.

Ben Sanderson is a Hollywood screenwriter who has lost his job, family, and friends. One early morning, he drives drunkenly from his Los Angeles home down to the Las Vegas Strip; he nearly hits a woman, Sera, on the crosswalk. Polish mobsters are after Yuri, so he ends his relationship with Sera in fear that the Poles may hurt her. Sera asks Ben not to criticize her occupation, and he agrees.

In 2013, Edward Snowden arranges a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong with documentarian Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald. Poitras later released a documentary about this meeting titled Citizenfour, this in turn was used in a scene within the film Snowden. He eventually fractures his tibia, and is informed that he will be receiving an administrative discharge and that he may serve his country in other ways.

In 2013, Edward Snowden arranges a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong with documentarian Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald. Poitras later released a documentary about this meeting titled Citizenfour, this in turn was used in a scene within the film Snowden. He eventually fractures his tibia, and is informed that he will be receiving an administrative discharge and that he may serve his country in other ways.

Roy Waller is a con artist residing in Los Angeles with severe tourette’s syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Klein provides Roy with medication, and in therapy has Roy recall his past relationship with Heather, his ex-wife who was pregnant during the time of the divorce.

A cave family called the Croods survives a natural disaster, due to the overprotective nature of their stubborn patriarch Grug. One night, while her family is asleep, Eep sneaks out when she sees what she discovers to be a torch of fire, and she encounters an inventive modern human boy named Guy and his pet sloth Belt.

Brad Hamilton is a popular senior at Ridgemont High School and looks forward to his final year of school. He has a job at All-American Burger, almost has his 1960 Buick LeSabre paid off, and plans to break up with his girlfriend Lisa so he can be completely eligible during the year.

Lovers Lula and Sailor are separated after he is jailed for killing a man who attacked him with a knife; the assailant, Bobby Ray Lemon, was hired by Lula’s mother, Marietta Fortune. They go to a hotel where she reserved a room, make love and go to see the speed metal band Powermad.

Joe Ransom is foreman of a Texan tree-poisoning crew. A 15-year-old drifter named Gary asks Joe for a job, and impresses him with his industriousness. The next day, Gary brings his alcoholic father, Wade, to work, but Wade’s poor attitude and laziness gets them fired. Joe witnesses Wade beat Gary and take his money.

In Manhattan during the early 1990s, Frank Pierce is a burned-out hospital paramedic who works the graveyard shift in a two-man ambulance team with various partners. Frank discovers Mary was childhood friends with Noel, a brain-damaged drug addict and delinquent who is frequently sent to the hospital.

A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz. A dancer from Dixie’s neighborhood, Sandman Williams, is hired with his brother by The Cotton Club, a jazz club where most of the performers are black and the customers are white.

Toby Tenma is a teenager who lives in the futuristic city-state of Metro City, that floats above the polluted surface on Earth. His father, Dr. Tenma, meets President Stone to show the Peacekeeper, an advanced defensive robot that will activate using the Blue and Red cores, two energy cores that emit respective opposing positive and negative energy created by Dr. Elefun.