Winston Groom’s 1986 novel inspired one of the most beloved movies of all time. While not every event from the novel made it into the movie, it still stayed fairly true to the original plot.
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Roderick Thorp’s novel Nothing Lasts Forever was released in 1979 and brought five Die Hard movies into existence.
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This creepy movie was based on the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. While many were disturbed by the film, it received several favorable reviews.
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Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws was turned into a major motion picture in 1975 by Steven Spielberg. Thanks to this novel and movie, we all now live in fear of the ocean.
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Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole was the basis for this Oscar-winning movie starring Hillary Swank.
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This Johnny Depp film was inspired by the the critically-acclaimed true-crime novel Blow: How a Small Town Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All by Bruce Porter.
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The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith inspired this beloved Disney classic. Luckily for us, the movie stayed true to the novel’s plot.
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You might be surprised to know that this funny comedy was originally a children’s picture book of the same name by William Steig.
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Jonathan Tropper wrote the novel that inspired this movie about a dysfunctional family being forced to sit shiva for their father and subsequently face their issues.
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Much to our surprise, this popular movie was based on a book by Mickey Rapkin titled Pitch Perfect: The Quest for A Cappella Glory, which provides an inside look at the secretive world of a cappella competitions.
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Starring Scarlett Johansson, the 2017 film version of Ghost in the Shell is based on the Japanese manga of the same name, written by Masamune Shirow. The plot is set in the near future and deals with moral issues with artificial intelligence and pushing the bounds of what “human” means. The film adaptation upset many fans because the manga's story was whitewashed. The main character role, a Japanese warrior, was given to Scarlett Johansson instead of an Asian actor.
The Silence of the Lambs is one of the most iconic horror movies of all time, with the 1991 film starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. The novel, which has the same name, was written by Thomas Harris in 1988 and is about a young FBI agent who ends up intertwined with a cannibalistic serial killer.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a 2005 crime film starring Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. The story is about a criminal who accidentally makes it big in Hollywood. The book version, titled Bodies Are Where You Find Them, was written in 1953 by Brett Halliday and is about a complex and bloody murder mystery.
Fight Club, the movie, was released in 1999 and starred a fantastic-looking Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. The movie is actually based on a book by the same name, written by Chuck Palahniuk. It's about an insomniac who meets a stranger on a plane. This changes his life forever as he gets involved with a fight club and other shocking things.
