All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Rip Torn, ranked

After a government agency makes first contact with aliens in 1961, alien refugees live in secret on Earth by disguising themselves as humans. After an operation to arrest an alien criminal named Mikey near the Mexican border by Agents K and D, the latter decides that he is too old for his job, prompting the former to neuralyze him so he can retire.

After a government agency makes first contact with aliens in 1961, alien refugees live in secret on Earth by disguising themselves as humans. After an operation to arrest an alien criminal named Mikey near the Mexican border by Agents K and D, the latter decides that he is too old for his job, prompting the former to neuralyze him so he can retire.

Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who’s plotting to take over Mount Olympus.

Professor Grady Tripp is a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university. Grady’s third wife, Emily, has just left him, and he has failed to repeat the grand success of his first novel, published years earlier. He spends his free time smoking marijuana.

A non-NATO nuclear missile is launched from Turkey towards the USSR, resulting in detonation on Soviet soil. The automatic Soviet response interprets it as a NATO missile, raising the stakes. The narrative unfolds as we track the actions of the U.S. president and a bomber crew, exploring whether continued escalation can be averted.

Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her straitlaced relatives are up in arms. But Clare Lester, Helen’s grandmother, says the girl is free to join the man she loves.

Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet, which is experiencing a catastrophic drought. Newton uses the advanced technology of his home planet to patent many inventions on Earth, and acquires tremendous wealth as the head of a technology-based conglomerate.

Fourteen-year-old Maria Antonia is the beautiful, charming, and naïve Archduchess of Austria, youngest of Empress Maria-Theresa’s daughters. In 1770, the only one left unmarried among her sisters, she is sent by her mother to marry the Dauphin of France, the future Louis XVI, to seal an alliance between the two rival countries.

In July 2002, Men in Black Agent J is called to investigate the murder of an alien, Ben, at his pizzeria. As he investigates the crime, every lead points to his former partner and mentor, Agent K, who was neuralyzed upon retirement five years previous and remembers nothing of his MiB service.

The same assailant kidnaps the 11-year-old daughter and girlfriend of a father whose wife had been raped and killed in front of his daughter three years previously. While the authorities work to find the kidnapper, the two, who are being held captive in a bunker beneath Grand Central Station, plan their escape.