Top Adaptation Movies 2014
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Wild
With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone.
Reese Witherspoon, Nick Hornby, Michiel Huisman, Bill Pohlad, Bruna Papandrea, Thomas Sadoski, W. Earl Brown, Gaby Hoffmann
R
Miss Julie
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Takes place over a night in 1874 and tackles such topics as sexuality, class and gender.
Colin Farrell, Jessica Chastain, Oliver Dungey, Liv Ullmann, Teun Hilte, Samantha Morton
PG-13
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Inherent Vice
When private eye Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin…well, easy for her to say.
It’s the tail end of the psychedelic '60s and paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like “trip” or “groovy,” that’s being way too overused—except this one usually leads to trouble.
With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp—all Thomas Pynchon.
Paul Thomas Anderson, Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, Maya Rudolph, Owen Wilson, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Joanne Sellar
R
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Into the Woods
Into the Woods is a modern twist on several of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Little Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), Jack and the Beanstalk (Daniel Huttlestone), and Rapunzel (MacKenzie Mauzy)—all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife (James Corden & Emily Blunt), their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch (Meryl Streep) who has put a curse on them.
Lilla Crawford, Billy Magnussen, Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Rob Marshall, Christine Baranski
PG
The Gambler
Jim Bennett (Academy Award®-nominee Mark Wahlberg) is a risk taker. Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster (Michael Kenneth Williams) and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator of a gambling ring (Alvin Ing) and leaves his dysfunctional relationship with his wealthy mother (Academy Award®-winner Jessica Lange) in his wake. He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of Frank (John Goodman), a loan shark with a paternal interest in Bennett’s future. As his relationship with a student (Brie Larson) deepens, Bennett must take the ultimate risk for a second chance…
Mark Wahlberg, Brie Larson, John Goodman, Sonya Walger, Rupert Wyatt, Irwin Winkler, William Monahan, Jessica Lange
R
Mr. Pip
Set in the Papua New Guinea province of Bougainville during an ongoing war between soldiers and rebels over copper mining, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel "Great Expectations," which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.
Hugh Laurie, Leslie Urdang, Robin Scholes, Andrew Adamson, Dean Vanech
PG-13
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pa...
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice, but even though she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. President Snow makes it clear that no one is safe either -- not Katniss's family, not her friends and not the people of District 12.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Stanley Tucci, Nina Jacobson, Jennifer Lawrence, Francis Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Mahershala Ali
PG-13
Gone Girl
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
Tyler Perry, Ben Affleck, Reese Witherspoon, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Emily Ratajkowski, Boyd Holbrook, David Fincher
R
A Good Marriage
A woman discovers her husband has been keeping an especially terrible secret for years when she stumbles upon a box in the garage.
Joan Allen, Peter Askin, Stephen King, Anthony LaPaglia, Kristen Connolly, Stephen Lang
Alexander and the Terrible, Horr...
Follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life - a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him. He soon learns he is not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette), and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Anyone who says there is no such thing as a bad day just hasn't had one.
Shawn Levy, Ed Oxenbould, Jason Lust, Lisa Cholodenko, Miguel Arteta, Dan Levine, Lisa Henson, Rob Lieber
PG
The Best of Me
The Best of Me tells the story of Dawson and Amanda, two former high school sweethearts who find themselves reunited after 20 years apart, when they return to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend. Their bittersweet reunion reignites the love they've never forgotten, but soon they discover the forces that drove them apart twenty years ago live on, posing even more serious threats today. Spanning decades, this epic love story captures the enduring power of our first true love, and the wrenching choices we face when confronted with elusive second chances.
James Marsden, Jon Tenney, Michelle Monaghan, Liana Liberato, Michael Hoffman, Denise DiNovi, Nicholas Sparks, J. Mills Goodloe
PG-13
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Horns
The film follows Ig Perrish (Daniel Radcliffe, "Harry Potter" films), the number one suspect for the violent rape and murder of his girlfriend, Merrin (Juno Temple). Hungover from a night of hard drinking, Ig awakens one morning to find horns starting to grow from his own head and soon realizes their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their most selfish and unspeakable impulses – an effective tool in his quest to discover the true circumstances of his late girlfriend's tragedy and for exacting revenge on her killer.
Juno Temple, Heather Graham, Adam Stone, Keith Bunin, David Morse, Alexandre Aja, Peter Guber, Cathy Schulman
This Is Where I Leave You
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide—driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves.
Jason Bateman, Shawn Levy, Dax Shepard, Jeff Levine, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne, Abigail Spencer
R
The Maze Runner
When Thomas wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.
Will Poulter, Thomas Sangster, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Lindsay Williams, Kaya Scodelario, Wes Ball, Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers
PG-13
A Walk Among the Tombstones
A Walk among the Tombstones stars Liam Neeson as Matt Scudder, an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder reluctantly agrees to help a heroin trafficker (Dan Stevens) hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime…nor will it be the last. Blurring the lines between right and wrong, Scudder races to track the deviants through the backstreets of New York City before they kill again.
Liam Neeson, Danny DeVito, Mark Consuelos, Brian Oliver, Scott Frank, Dan Stevens, Ruth Wilson, Boyd Holbrook
R
Hector and the Search for Happin...
Hector (Simon Pegg) is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara (Rosamund Pike), he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
Rosamund Pike, Peter Chelsom, Simon Pegg, Toni Collette, Christopher Plummer, Tinker Lindsay, Stellan Skarsgard, Jean Reno
The Two Faces of January
A thriller set in Greece and Istanbul, 1962, and adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen) and his young wife Collete (Kirsten Dunst) meet American expat Rydal (Oscar Isaac), a scammer working as a tour guide. Instead of becoming his latest marks, the two befriend him, but a murder at the couple’s hotel puts all three on the run together and creates a precarious bond between them as the trio’s allegiance is put to the test.
Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac, Tim Bevan, Viggo Mortensen, Hossein Amini, Tom Sternberg, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo
PG-13
Mood Indigo
A story set in Paris about two newlyweds, Chloe (Audrey Tautou) and Colin (Romain Duris), whose whirlwind courtship is tested when an unusual illness plagues Chloe; a flower begins to grow in her lungs.
Michel Gondry, Gad Elmaleh, Audrey Tautou, Romain Duris, Omar Sy
A Most Wanted Man
A Most Wanted Man takes place in present day Hamburg, Germany where a mysterious, tortured and near-dead half-Chechen, half-Russian man on the run arrives in the city’s Islamic community desperate for help and looking to recover his late Russian father’s ill-gotten fortune. Nothing about this young man seems to add up; is he a victim or a thief or, worse still, an extremist intent on destruction? Drawn into this web of intrigue is a private British banker and a young female lawyer determined to defend the defenseless. All the while, they are being watched by the brilliant, roguish chief of a covert German spy unit (Hoffman), who fights to put the pieces together as the clock ticks.
Willem Dafoe, Anton Corbijn, Andrew Bovell, Robin Wright, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Bruhl, Martin Wuttke
R
Jersey Boys
Frank Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi go from blue-collar wrong side of the track origins to become American pop sensations, selling 175 million records worldwide before they are 30 years old.
Erich Bergen, Christopher Walken, Michael Lomenda, Clint Eastwood, Rob Lorenz, Marshall Brickman, John Logan, Mike Doyle
R
Devil's Knot
In 1993, West Memphis, Arkansas was rocked by the brutal murders of three 8-year old boys playing in the woods. The police quickly accused three teenage boys, claiming they killed the children as part of a satanic ritual. Professional investigator, Ron Lax, volunteered to represent the accused and was shocked to find that the case was based entirely on circumstantial evidence, prejudiced assumptions of the teenagers' love of goth culture and heavy metal music. He watched in horror as his clients were put on death row as he discovered something far more scary...the truth.
Scott Derrickson, Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth, Christopher Woodrow, Molly Conners, Sarah E. Johnson, Clark Peterson, Alessandro Nivola
God's Pocket
Set in the gritty blue-collar neighborhood of God's Pocket, a man's crazy stepson is killed in a construction "accident" and the man quickly tries to bury the bad news with the body. But when a local columnist comes sniffing around for the truth, things go from bad to worse. The man finds himself stuck in a life and death struggle between a body he can’t bury, a wife he can’t please and a debt he can’t pay.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Slattery, John Turturro, Alex Metcalf, Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks
Joe
Ex-con, Joe Ransom, drinks heavily, outruns police and gambles away his money. He is the unlikeliest of role models to everyone except 15 year old Gary Jones, the oldest child of a homeless family run by an drunk, worthless father. Joe takes Gary under his wing seeing much of himself in the kid. Together they try to find a path to redemption and the hope for a better life in the rugged, gritty world of small town Mississippi.
Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Christopher Woodrow, Sarah E. Johnson, Molly Conners, Lisa Muskat, Heather Kafka, Ronnie Gene Blevins
R
Heaven Is For Real
The true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son’s extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world.
The film stars Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo and co-stars Kelly Reilly as Sonja Burpo, the real-life couple whose son Colton (newcomer Connor Corum) claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth ... things he couldn't possibly know. Todd and his family are then challenged to examine the meaning from this remarkable event.
Jacob Vargas, Randall Wallace, Joe Roth, T.D. Jakes, Christopher Parker, Kelly Reilly, Greg Kinnear, Connor Corum
PG
Vampire Academy
Vampire Academy tells the legend of Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch) and Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry), two 17-year-old girls who attend a hidden boarding school for Moroi (mortal, peaceful Vampires) and Dhampirs (half-vampire/half-human guardians). Rose, a rebellious Guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa - a royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St.Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Thrust back into the perils of Moroi Society and high school, Lissa struggles to reclaim her status while Rose trains with her mentor and love-interest, Dimitri (Danila Kozlovsky), to guarantee her place as Lissa's guardian. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.
Olga Kurylenko, Don Murphy, Mark S. Waters, Dan Waters, Zoey Deutch, Sarah Hyland, Gabriel Byrne, Claire Foy
Winter's Tale
Set in 1916 and present-day Manhattan, Winter's Tale follows the story of Peter Lake (Colin Farrell). Peter Lake is a thief who falls in love with Beverly Penn (Jessica Brown Findlay), a dying girl who occupies one of the houses he breaks into. Lake is saved from the insane gangster Pearly Soames (Russell Crowe) and his gang of thugs by Athansor, a mysterious white horse who becomes his guardian angel.
Russell Crowe, Colin Farrell, Will Smith, Jennifer Connelly, Matt Bomer, Akiva Goldsman, Kerry Foster, Jessica Brown Findlay
PG-13
Odd Thomas
Small-town fry cook Odd Thomas (Anton Yelchin) is an ordinary guy with a paranormal secret: he sees dead people, everywhere. When a creepy stranger shows-up with an entourage of ghostly bodachs – predators who feed on pain and portend mass destruction – Odd knows that his town is in serious trouble. Teaming up with his sweetheart Stormy (Addison Timlin) and the local sheriff (Willem Dafoe), Odd plunges into an epic battle of good vs evil to try to stop a disaster of apocalyptic proportions.
Addison Timlin, Patton Oswalt, Curtis Jackson, John Baldecchi, Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Sommers, Howard Kaplan
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