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

In the story, a man named Earl has anterograde amnesia. Because of his inability to remember things for more than a few minutes, he uses notes and tattoos to keep track of new information. Earl owes his condition to an attack against him and his wife by an unknown assailant.

A passionate and optimistic young lawyer advocates for an Alcatraz inmate charged with killing another prisoner. The unique aspect of the case lies in the fact that the defendant had endured more than three years in solitary confinement prior to the incident.

In the early 1970s, Henry DeTamble is in a car accident that kills his mother but which he survives by inadvertently time traveling back two weeks. Unable to control the timing or destinations of his traveling, Henry finds himself drawn to significant people, places, and events in his life but is incapable of changing events beyond the minor differences his presence creates.

In San Francisco, homicide detective Nick Curran investigates the murder of retired rock star Johnny Boz, who has been stabbed to death with an ice pick during sex with a mysterious blonde woman. Nick, who accidentally shot two tourists while high on cocaine during an undercover assignment, attends counseling sessions with police psychologist Dr. Beth Garner, with whom he has an on and off affair.

Lilly Dillon is a veteran con artist. She works for Bobo Justus, a mob bookmaker, making large cash bets at race tracks to lower the odds of longshots. On her way to La Jolla for the horse races, she stops in Los Angeles to visit her son Roy, a small-time grifter whom she has not seen in eight years.

Allison Allie Jones is a software designer in New York City who advertises for a new roommate to share her apartment in the Ansonia. She settles on Hedra Carlson, and they become friends. Hedy explains that her twin was stillborn, leaving her with constant loneliness. Hedy becomes overly protective of Allie, erasing Sam’s voice-mail asking Allie for a reconciliation.

Anna Coleman is an aspiring teenage musician who lives with her widowed therapist mother, Tess, and younger brother, Harry. At school, Anna’s English teacher, Mr. Bates, treats her unfairly, and she is feuding with Stacey, her former best friend-turned-nemesis.

Burned-out Hollywood screenwriter, Bo Aikens, arrives in picturesque Black River, seeking relaxation and artistic inspiration. Initially, he finds it, along with romance in the arms of a beautiful architect. But when Bo becomes tangled in a nightmarish plot, preventing his return home, it suddenly seems clear that this perfect little hideaway captures more than just the imagination of its visitors.