All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Tobey Maguire, ranked

In 1971, Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo speed across the Nevada desert. They pick up a young hitchhiker and explain their mission: Duke has been assigned by a magazine to cover the Mint 400 motorcycle race in Las Vegas. When Duke returns he finds that Gonzo, high on LSD, has trashed the room, and is in the bathtub clothed, attempting to pull the tape player in with him as he wants to hear the song better.

Homer Wells, an orphan, grows up in a Maine orphanage directed by kindly, avuncular Dr. Wilbur Larch. Homer, the oldest among the orphans, is very bright, helpful and even-tempered, so Larch trains him in obstetrics and abortions as an apprentice, despite Homer’s never having attended high school.

The novel takes place over Thanksgiving weekend 1973, during a dangerous ice storm, and centers on two neighboring families, the Hoods and the Williamses, and their difficulties in dealing with the tumultuous political and social climate of the day. The setting is an affluent Connecticut suburb during the height of the sexual revolution.

On a school trip, high school senior Peter Parker visits a Columbia University genetics laboratory, where he is bitten by a genetically engineered super spider that escaped from containment and seemingly falls ill after returning home.

On a school trip, high school senior Peter Parker visits a Columbia University genetics laboratory, where he is bitten by a genetically engineered super spider that escaped from containment and seemingly falls ill after returning home.

Two years after Norman Osborn’s death, Peter Parker, a.k.a. Harry, who is now head of Oscorp’s genetic and scientific research division, is sponsoring a fusion power project by nuclear scientist Otto Octavius, who befriends and mentors Peter.

Three men, Red Pollard, Charles S. Howard, and Tom Smith come together as the principal jockey, owner, and trainer of the champion race horse Seabiscuit, rising from individual troubled times to achieve fame and success through their association with the horse. Desperately needing money, his Pollard’s parents give up custody of him and find him a work situation with a horse trainer.

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.

In 1987, Adele Wheeler is a depressed single mother who lives in a rural home with her 13-year-old son Henry. While they are shopping, a bloody man approaches Henry and makes them take him home to look after him.The man is revealed to be Frank Chambers, an escaped convict wanted by police.

Taking place in the midst of the Kansas-Missouri border conflict in 1862, this film features Tobey Maguire in the role of Jake and Skeet Ulrich as his companion, Jack Bull. Following the tragic death of Jack’s father at the hands of marauding members of the abolitionist Jayhawkers, the two friends align themselves with the Confederate-supporting Bushwhackers.

A year after Otto Octavius’ sacrifice, Peter Parker plans to propose to Mary Jane Watson, who has just made her Broadway musical debut. At his apartment, while Peter sleeps in his Spider-Man suit to wait for Marko, the symbiote assimilates the suit; Peter later awakens at the top of a building, discovering that his costume has changed to black and his powers are enhanced; however, the symbiote brings out his dark side.

Jacob Jake Geismer, an American war correspondent for The New Republic, returns to Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers after World War II was over in Europe but before hostilities ended in Asia. Geismer becomes entwined in both the mystery of his murdered driver and the clandestine search by both Soviet and American forces for the missing German Emil Brandt.