Starring: Paul Rudd, Craig Roberts, Selena Gomez, Alex Huff, Donna Biscoe, Julia Denton, Jennifer Ehle Along the way, Trevor meets Dot, a kind girl he develops a crush on.īased On: The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
Ben takes Trevor on a road trip to see the world’s deepest pit. Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance, Mark Strong, Allen Leech, Rory KinnearĪ retired writer named Ben takes a six-week course to become a caregiver, then takes a job caring for Trevor, an eighteen-year-old with muscular dystrophy. But when Alan is outed as a gay man, he is faced with imprisonment or chemical castration.īased On: Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Starring: Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Riley, Margot Robbie, Ruth Wilsonīritish mathematical genius Alan Turing and a team of gifted mathematicians try to crack the German Enigma code to turn the tide of World War II.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Ruth White, Paul Fix, Brock Peters, Frank Overton, Robert Duvallĭuring the Nazi occupation of France, romance blossoms between a Lucile Angellier, a French woman, and Bruno von Falk, the German officer billeting in her home.īased On: Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith Meanwhile, his two children, Jem and Scout, become intrigued by their mysterious shut-in neighbor, Boo Radley.īased On: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Kristen Stewart, Vince Vaughn, Zach Galifianakisįather, widower, and small-town lawyer Atticus Finch defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in 1932 Alabama. Starring: Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates, Kathryn Hahn, David HarbourĪfter graduating from Emory University in the early 1990s, ace student and athlete Christopher McCandless gives everything he owns to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Starring: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David KrossĪpril and Frank Wheeler’s troubled marriage crumbles under the social constraints of their mid-1950s suburban existence.īased On: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
She is on trial for war crimes committed when she was a guard at a Nazi concentration camp.īased On: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Carol Brown Janeway
Decades later, Michael, now a lawyer, encounters Hanna in court. In 1958 Germany, a teenage boy named Michael Berg has an affair with an older woman named Hanna Schmitz, who then mysteriously disappears. Starring: Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Dylan Walsh, Margo Martindale, Nelson EllisĪ woman who has been held captive in a tiny garden shed for seven years raises her five-year-old son, Jack, who was born in captivity. Penny Chenery Tweedy and her associates guide her long-shot stallion to set the still-unbeaten world record for winning the Triple Crown in 1973.