All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Stephen Root, ranked

In Texas, 1980, hitman Anton Chigurh strangles a deputy sheriff to escape custody and uses a captive bolt pistol to kill a driver and steal his car. Following an electronic tracking device hidden in the money, Chigurh goes to Moss’s motel room and kills a group of Mexicans who are waiting to ambush Moss with his shotgun.

Nemo is a young clownfish who lives with his father Marlin in an anemone in the Great Barrier Reef. On Nemo’s first day of school, Marlin unintentionally embarrasses him, and while Marlin is distracted with the teacher, Mr. Ray, Nemo defiantly sneaks away from the reef toward a speedboat, where he is captured by a pair of scuba divers.

Taking place between How to Train Your Dragon and How to Train Your Dragon 2, DreamWorks Dragons follows Hiccup as he tries to keep balance within the new cohabitation of Dragons and Vikings. Alongside keeping up with Berk’s newest installment—A Dragon Training Academy—Hiccup, Toothless, and the rest of the Viking Teens are put to the test.

With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. Along the way, the unlikely allies become friends but, when enemies attack, their quest takes on far nobler aims.

Lyndon B. Johnson’s amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK’s assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the ‘accidental President.’

In 2005, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a mentally ill, homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent, even through his half-broken instruments. Inspired by his story, Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles about Ayers and attempts to do more to help both him and the rest of the underclass of LA have a better life.

Adam Carlson, a news reporter in Point Barrow, a small town in northern Alaska, can’t wait to land a job in a bigger market in the lower 48 states. Then, in October 1988, the story of a lifetime practically gets dropped into his lap: while befriending local Inupiat boy Nathan, a family of gray whales is discovered by them near the Arctic Circle, trapped by rapidly forming ice.

In Arcadia, Arizona, salesman Nick Halsey is fired from his job of 16 years following an incident in Denver related to his alcoholism. After stabbing his supervisor Gary’s tires with his farewell gift – a Swiss Army Knife with his name on it – but leaving it behind, Nick has a confrontation with teenagers outside a convenience store.

In a short prelude, U.S. Army General Dean Hopgood is painfully thwarted in an attempt to pass paranormally through a solid wall by simply running into it. However, he stumbles onto the story of a lifetime when he meets a retired U.S. Army Special Forces operator, Lyn Cassady, who reveals that he was part of a U.S. Army unit training psychic spies to develop a range of parapsychological skills including invisibility, remote viewing, and phasing.

In the Ura Valley, Bhutan in 1995; four friends – Greg, Fiona, Ruthie, and Paul go hiking on a mountain. After blowing into a flute-like instrument, Paul hears something calling to him and falls in a crevice while investigating. Greg enters to rescue him and finds Paul in a catatonic state and staring at a strange skeleton.

Brothers Mike and Dave Stangle are liquor salesmen whose antics ruin their family’s gatherings. With their younger sister Jeanie’s wedding in Hawaii approaching, their parents tell them they must bring dates to the wedding to keep them out of trouble. Mike and Dave put out an ad for dates on Craigslist. The ad goes viral and the brothers go on The Wendy Williams Show to advertise themselves.

Aster and Halan find themselves inexplicably drawn to Beacon 23, where they confront a barrage of threats. Their lives take a dramatic turn with the appearance of an object known as The Artifact, leading them to unravel its mysteries. Through this journey, they develop a profound connection, just in time to confront a deadly AI.