Budding Prospects. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 1984 book, Budding Prospects: A Pastoral
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Budding Prospects: A Pastoral
T. Coraghessan Boyle, 1984
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Terry Zwigoff, 2017

Three young men from San Francisco, who live a life full of sex and drugs, are enticed to the countryside in 1983 to cultivate marijuana. They soon discover that they are stranded in a shabby cabin located in the middle of nowhere. They have to deal with difficult and hostile growing conditions, inquisitive neighbors, hostile locals, and menacing law enforcement officials.


Brown's Requiem. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the 1981 book
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Brown's Requiem
James Ellroy, 1981
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Jason Freeland, 1998

Fritz Brown is a disgraced former LAPD officer now working as a private investigator, part-time repo man and struggling on-the-wagon ex-alcoholic. Fritz is hired by an obese caddy named Freddy ‘Fat Dog’ Baker, supposedly to keep tabs on Fat Dog’s sister, Jane. In the course of his investigation, Fritz learns that Jane is indeed living with an elderly millionaire.