Into the Wild. Poster of the 2007 movie and cover of the 1996 book
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, 1996
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Sean Penn, 2007

In April 1992, Christopher McCandless arrives in a remote area called Healy, just north of Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. McCandless travels into the wilderness and sets up a campsite in an abandoned city bus, which he calls The Magic Bus. At first, McCandless is content with the isolation, the beauty of nature around him, and the thrill of living off the land.


Hacksaw Ridge. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Hacksaw Ridge: The Novel
Rishabh Rakshit, 2020
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Mel Gibson, 2016

In 1925 Lynchburg, Virginia, young Desmond Doss nearly kills his brother during roughhousing. That event and his Seventh-day Adventist upbringing reinforce Desmond’s belief in the commandment Thou shalt not kill.#Fifteen years later, Doss takes an injured man to the hospital and meets a nurse, Dorothy Schutte. They strike a romance, and Doss tells Dorothy of his interest in medical work. His father, Tom, a Great War veteran, is deeply upset by the decision.


The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Poster of the 1997 movie and cover of the 1995 book, The Lost World
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The Lost World
Michael Crichton, 1995
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Steven Spielberg, 1997

Four years after the events on Isla Nublar, a wealthy British family docks their yacht ashore at the nearby Isla Sorna, unaware that the island contains genetically engineered dinosaurs. Hammond asks Ian to join a team who will document the dinosaurs in their natural habitat, in order to encourage a policy of non-interference.


Thumbsucker. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 1999 book
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Thumbsucker
Walter Kirn, 1999
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Mike Mills, 2005

Justin Cobb is a shy 17-year-old teenager who still sucks his thumb. Realizing it’s totally disrupting his home, love and school love life, he allows his orthodontist to break him of the habit through hypnosis. Justin begins to experiment with prescription drugs, pot and sex as alternate means to overcome his anxieties and become normal, never realizing normal is just a state of mind.


Arkansas. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 2008 book
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Arkansas
John Brandon, 2008
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Clark Duke, 2020

Drug dealer Kyle Ribb is promoted to move product wholesale in Arkansas, part of a loose criminal organization run by a man named Frog. He explains that Kyle and Swin are to work under him, living on the park grounds with cover identities as park employees while they traffic drugs across the southern U.S. Swin begins dating Johnna, a nurse who brings him to a curio shop run by an eccentric owner.


Be Cool. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 1999 book
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Be Cool
Elmore Leonard, 1999
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F. Gary Gray, 2005

Chili Palmer, restless after years of filmmaking, enters the music industry after witnessing the Russian mob execute his friend Tommy Athens, owner of a record company. Chili offers to help Tommy’s widow, Edie Athens, manage the failing business, which owes $300,000 to hip-hop producer Sin LaSalle.


Term Life. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 2011 comic book
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Term Life
A. J. Lieberman, Nick Thornborrow, 2011
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Peter Billingsley, 2016

Nick plans and sells heists to the highest bidder but is forced to take his daughter Cate, who he hasn’t had a relationship with her whole life, on the lam when a job goes bad. Cate has had to fend for herself because her mother Lucy is an alcoholic. Cate gives her father a hard time because of the hideout that has no food, him trying to assert himself in her life.


Psycho. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the 1959 book
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Psycho
Robert Bloch, 1959
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Gus Van Sant, 1998

Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday, Marion is trusted to bank forty thousand dollars by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into the Bates Motel.