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I need to do a book report on a book that has been turned into a movie.

I'm looking for a book that has been turned into a present movie.

Something like the Pursuit of Happiness (which we cant use anyway) but something like that (with a movie made in the last 2-3 years)

2007-11-16 07:46:47 · 18 answers · asked by Nik P 1 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

Action movies and Thrillers

2007-11-16 07:54:03 · update #1

18 answers

The Da Vinci Code!

2007-11-16 07:50:33 · answer #1 · answered by raffy_09 4 · 0 0

From words to pictures

1984
Alice in Wonderland
American Psycho
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Brighton Rock
Catch 22
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
A Clockwork Orange
Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
The Day of the Triffids
Devil in a Blue Dress
Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
Doctor Zhivago
Empire of the Sun
The English Patient
Fight Club
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Get Shorty
The Godfather
Goldfinger
Goodfellas
Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Jaws
The Jungle Book
A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
LA Confidential
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
The Maltese Falcon
Oliver Twist
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Orlando
The Outsiders
Pride and Prejudice
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Railway Children
Rebecca
The Remains of the Day
Schindler's Ark (aka Schindler's List)
Sin City
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
The Talented Mr Ripley
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
To Kill a Mockingbird
Trainspotting
The Vanishing
Watership Down

2007-11-16 08:07:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Borne Identity
Harry Potter
Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen
How To Eat Fried Worms

2007-11-16 07:51:30 · answer #3 · answered by My Name Doesn't Fit Here 4 · 0 0

1-The Harry Potter series,
2-Along came a spider,
3-Kiss the girls.
4-The Lion the Witch and the wardrobe, from the chronicles of Narnia,
5-The kite Runner (coming to theatres soon)
6-Fehrinhite 911 is based on the book "Dude, Where's my country"
7-The mist (Stephen King)
8- Rose Red ( Stephen King)
Almost all stephen king books are made into movies
9-There is a TV new show now (Women's murder club) that is based on James Patterson's novels of that sereis..
10-Golden Compass

2007-11-16 16:31:25 · answer #4 · answered by Ray Ray 3 · 0 0

Gone With the Wind
The Shining
Cujo
It
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Joy Luck Club
Pet Cemetary
Dolores Claiborne...most by Stephen King

2007-11-16 07:57:00 · answer #5 · answered by deb 7 · 0 0

1.) The book: 'Clean Break' (1955) by Lionel White was made into the movie: THE KILLING (1956) by director Stanley Kubrick.

2.) The book: 'The Sentinel' (1948) by Arthur C. Clarke was made into the movie: '2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) by director Stanley Kubrick.

3.) The book: 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' (1968) by Philip K. Dick was made into the movie: 'BLADE RUNNER (1982) by director Ridley Scott.

2007-11-16 09:11:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The Lord of The Rings Trilogy

I Am Legend: which is coming out soon

The Golden Compass

The Chronicles of Narnia

Troy was adapted from Homer's The Iliad

Beowulf

2007-11-16 07:55:14 · answer #7 · answered by iswthunder 3 · 0 0

The Notebook
A Time to Kill
Forrest Gump
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Pelican Brief
The Firm

2007-11-16 08:14:55 · answer #8 · answered by Angela O 5 · 1 0

The lion, the witch, and the Wardrobe

A Walk to Remember

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

2007-11-16 08:30:26 · answer #9 · answered by Puff 5 · 0 0

Lord of the rings. Hunt for red october, plenty of movies come from a book.

2007-11-16 07:54:10 · answer #10 · answered by krennao 7 · 0 0

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