Top Adaptation Movies 2020
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Monster Hunter
Behind our world, there is another: a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When Lt. Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her elite unit are transported through a portal from our world to a new world, they are in for the shock of their lives. In her desperate attempt to get home, the brave lieutenant encounters a mysterious hunter (Tony Jaa), whose unique skills have allowed him to survive in this hostile land. Faced with relentless and terrifying attacks from the monsters, the warriors team up to fight back and find a way home.
Ron Perlman, Tony Jaa, Paul W.S. Anderson, Robert Kulzer, Diego González Boneta, Meagan Good, Josh Helman, Jeremy Bolt
PG-13
Modern Persuasion
A modern telling of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion.” Wren Cosgrove is a happy, single, and self-confessed workaholic who, after rising to the top of the corporate ladder, finds herself coming home every night to her cat. When her firm is hired by Owen Jasper, “the man who got away,” long-lost feelings are stirred, giving Wren a second chance at true love.
Alicia Witt, Alex Appel, Jonathan Lisecki, Barbara Radecki, Bebe Neuwirth, Daniella Pineda, Liza Lapira, Mark Moses
News of the World
Five years after the end of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks), a veteran of three wars, now moves from town to town as a non-fiction storyteller, sharing the news of presidents and queens, glorious feuds, devastating catastrophes, and gripping adventures from the far reaches of the globe.
Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Paul Greengrass, Luke Davies, Michael Covino, Steve Boyles, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor
PG-13
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Let Him Go
Following the loss of their son, retired sheriff George Blackledge (Costner) and his wife Margaret (Lane) leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas, headed by matriarch Blanche Weboy. When they discover the Weboys have no intention of letting the child go, George and Margaret are left with no choice but to fight for their family.
Kevin Costner, Mitchell Kaplan, Jeffrey Donovan, Kimi Armstrong Stein, Thomas Bezucha, Paula Mazur, Diane Lane, Lesley Manville
R
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Jiu Jitsu
An ancient order of Jiu Jitsu fighters faces a vicious race of alien invaders in an epic battle for the survival of Earth.
Frank Grillo, Nicolas Cage, Tony Jaa, Alain Moussi, Martin Barab, Rick Yune, Marie Avgeropoulos, Juju Chan
R
Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student, is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget. J.D. must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with his mother Bev (Amy Adams), who’s struggling with addiction. Fueled by memories of his grandmother Mamaw (Glenn Close), the resilient and whip-smart woman who raised him, J.D. comes to embrace his family’s indelible imprint on his own personal journey.
Amy Adams, Freida Pinto, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Erica Huggins, Karen Lunder
R
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Black Beauty
In this modern day reimagining of Anna Sewell’s timeless classic, we follow Black Beauty, a wild horse born free in the American West. Rounded up and taken away from her family, Beauty is brought to Birtwick Stables where she meets a spirited teenage girl, Jo Green. Beauty and Jo forge an unbreakable bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges, and adventures of her life.
Kate Winslet, Mackenzie Foy, Robert Kulzer, Ashley Avis, Jeremy Bolt, Claire Forlani, Iain Glen, Fern Deacon
Spontaneous
When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally…), seniors Mara (Katherine Langford) and Dylan (Charlie Plummer) struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last. As an unexpected romance blossoms between them, Mara and Dylan discover that when tomorrow is no longer promised, they can finally start living for today!
Charlie Plummer, Yvonne Orji, Brian Robbins, Matt Kaplan, Nicki Cortese, Brian Duffield, Katherine Langford, Hayley Law
R
Spontaneous
When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally…), seniors Mara (Katherine Langford) and Dylan (Charlie Plummer) struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last. As an unexpected romance blossoms between them, Mara and Dylan discover that when tomorrow is no longer promised, they can finally start living for today!
Charlie Plummer, Yvonne Orji, Brian Robbins, Matt Kaplan, Nicki Cortese, Brian Duffield, Katherine Langford, Hayley Law
R
The War with Grandpa
Sixth-grader Peter (Oakes Fegley) is pretty much your average kid-he likes gaming, hanging with his friends and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when his recently widowed grandfather Ed (Robert De Niro) moves in with Peter's family, the boy is forced to give up his most prized possession of all, his bedroom. Unwilling to let such an injustice stand, Peter devises a series of increasingly elaborate pranks to drive out the interloper, but Grandpa Ed won't go without a fight. Soon, the friendly combatants are engaged in an all-out war with side-splitting consequences.
Jane Seymour, Rob Riggle, Cheech Marin, Tim Hill, Eugene Levy, Uma Thurman, Phillip Glasser, Marvin Peart
PG
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
What was intended to be a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention turned into a violent clash with police and the National Guard. The organizers of the protest—including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale—were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history.
Marc Platt, Eddie Redmayne, Steven Spielberg, Michael Keaton, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alex Sharp, J.C. MacKenzie
R
The Witches
From the mind of Roald Dahl and as reimagined by acclaimed filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, The Witches is a wickedly fun adventure as a young boy stumbles onto a secret coven of child-hating witches as they plot to turn the world’s children into mice. A fresh Halloween classic for this generation, in a story that celebrates courage, teamwork, and unlikely heroes, offering a completely distinct kids proposition with a quirky, delightfully twisted tone in classic Dahl style.
Stanley Tucci, Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Guillermo del Toro, Chris Rock, Kenya Barris, Alfonso Cuarón, Jack Rapke
PG
Enola Holmes
England, 1884 – a world on the brink of change. On the morning of her 16th birthday, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) wakes to find that her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) has disappeared, leaving behind an odd assortment of gifts but no apparent clue as to where she’s gone or why. After a free-spirited childhood, Enola suddenly finds herself under the care of her brothers Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin), both set on sending her away to a finishing school for “proper” young ladies. Refusing to follow their wishes, Enola escapes to search for her mother in London. But when her journey finds her entangled in a mystery surrounding a young runaway Lord (Louis Partridge), Enola becomes a super-sleuth in her own right, outwitting her famous brother as she unravels a conspiracy that threatens to set back the course of history.
Henry Cavill, Harry Bradbeer, Jack Thorne, Millie Bobby Brown, Helena Bonham Carter
Children of the Sea
When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does. Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish.
Ayumu Watanabe, Mana Ashida, Hiiro Ishibashi, Seishû Uragami, Win Morisaki
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Despite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of everything she knew or understood about her boyfriend, herself, and the world.
David Thewlis, Brie Larson, Charlie Kaufman, Anthony Bregman, Stefanie Azpiazu, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette
R
The Devil All the Time
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters — an unholy preacher (Robert Pattinson), twisted couple (Jason Clarke and Riley Keough), and crooked sheriff (Sebastian Stan) — converge around young Arvin Russell (Tom Holland) as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
Bill Skarsgard, Mia Wasikowska, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Sebastian Stan, Haley Bennett, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke
The Glorias
The Glorias (Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Keira Armstrong) traces Steinem’s influential journey to prominence—from her time in India as a young woman, to the founding of Ms. magazine in New York, to her role in the rise of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s, to the historic 1977 National Women’s Conference and beyond.
Alicia Vikander, Bette Midler, Julie Taymor, Sarah Ruhl, Julianne Moore, Janelle Monae, Lulu Wilson, Monica Sanchez
R
The Secret Garden
Tells the story of Mary Lennox (Dixie Egerickx, Genius, The Little Stranger and A Royal Winter), a prickly and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven (Academy Award® and BAFTA-winner Colin Firth – A Single Man, The King’s Speech, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Bridget Jones’s Baby) on his remote country estate deep in the Yorkshire moors. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin (Edan Hayhurst – Genius, There She Goes), who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden, lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor. A magical place of adventure that will change their lives forever.
Colin Firth, Julie Walters, David Heyman, Rosie Alison, Marc Munden, Jane Robertson, Jack Thorne, Dixie Egerickx
PG
Chemical Hearts
Seventeen-year-old Henry Page (Austin Abrams) has never been in love. He fancies himself a romantic, but the kind of once-in-a-lifetime love he’s been hoping for just hasn’t happened yet. Then, on the first day of senior year, he meets transfer student Grace Town (Lili Reinhart) and it seems all that is about to change. When Grace and Henry are chosen to co-edit the school paper, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious newcomer. As he learns the heartbreaking secret that has changed her life, he finds himself falling in love with her — or at least the person he thinks she is.
Coral Pena, Richard Tanne, C.J. Hoff, Lili Reinhart, Alex Saks, Austin Abrams, Sarah Jones, Adhir Kalyan
R
The One and Only Ivan
Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.
Angelina Jolie, Bryan Cranston, Danny DeVito, Ariana Greenblatt, Sam Rockwell, Ron Funches, Thea Sharrock, Allison Shearmur
PG
The Personal History of David Co...
From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.
Ben Whishaw, Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell, Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Aneurin Barnard, Morfydd Clark
All Together Now
Story of a teenage girl who, despite her difficult circumstances, is preternaturally optimistic about the world. She often helps those around her, resulting in strong bonds with a disparate group of outsiders in her community, until she faces a devastating loss and must confront her own challenges.
Marty Bowen, Lee Stollman, James Duval, Auli’i Cravalho, Brett Haley, Daniel Dubiecki, Michael Younesi, Leah Fong
The Old Guard
Led by a warrior named Andy (Charlize Theron), a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries. But when the team is recruited to take on an emergency mission and their extraordinary abilities are suddenly exposed, it’s up to Andy and Nile (Kiki Layne), the newest soldier to join their ranks, to help the group eliminate the threat of those who seek to replicate and monetize their power by any means necessary.
Dana Goldberg, Matthias Schoenaerts, Don Granger, Charlize Theron, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Greg Rucka, David Ellison, KiKi Layne
R
Shirley
Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naïve young couple at their door.
Odessa Young, Logan Lerman, Elisabeth Moss, Josephine Decker, Jeffrey Soros, Simon Horsman, Christine Vachon, David Hinojosa
R
Radioactive
RADIOACTIVE is the incredible, true-story of Marie Skłodowska Curie and her ground-breaking scientific achievements that revolutionized medicine with her discovery of radium and polonium, ultimately changing the face of science forever. Marie was the first female to win the Nobel Prize and the first person in history to win the esteemed award twice.
Rosamund Pike, Marjane Satrapi, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Jack Thorne, Sam Riley, Anya Taylor-Joy
NR
The Secret: Dare to Dream
The Secret: Dare to Dream centers around Miranda Wells (Katie Holmes), a hard-working young widow struggling to raise three children on her own. A powerful storm brings a devastating challenge and a mysterious man, Bray Johnson (Josh Lucas), into her life. In just a few short days, Bray’s presence re-ignites the family’s spirit, but he also carries a secret—and it’s a secret that could change everything.
Katie Holmes, Celia Weston, Andy Tennant, Bekah Brunstetter, Rick Parks, Josh Lucas, Jerry O’Connell, Sarah Hoffmeister
PG
Shirley
Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naïve young couple at their door.
Odessa Young, Logan Lerman, Elisabeth Moss, Josephine Decker, Jeffrey Soros, Simon Horsman, Christine Vachon, David Hinojosa
R
You Should Have Left
Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a perfect nightmare when Theo’s grasp on reality begins to unravel and he suspects that a sinister force within the house knows more than he or Susanna have revealed, even to each other.
Amanda Seyfried, Jason Blum, David Koepp, Kevin Bacon, Avery Essex
Wasp Network
Follows Cuban spies in American territory during the 1990s - revealing the tentacles of a Florida-based terrorist network.
Pedro Pascal, Penelope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez, Adria Arjona, Olivier Assayas
Arkansas
In Clark Duke’s directorial debut, Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they’ve never met. Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog’s proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). Swin then settles into his day job by taking up a relationship with Johnna (Eden Brolin) against orders to blend in while Kyle continues to question his night job by trying to figure out who Frog really is. Their world is then upended after one too many inept decisions, and Kyle, Swin, and Johnna find themselves directly in Frog’s crosshairs, who mistakenly sees them as a threat to his empire.
Vivica A. Fox, John Malkovich, Clark Duke, Patrick Hibler, Jeff Rice, Martin Sprock, Vince Vaughn, Liam Hemsworth
R
The Willoughbys
The four Willoughby children -- Timothy; his twin brothers, Barnaby A and Barnaby B; and their little sister, Jane -- are abandoned by their oblivious parents and must learn how to adapt their old-fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.
Alessia Cara, Sean Cullen, Ricky Gervais, Maya Rudolph, Jane Krakowski, Cory Evans, Luke Carroll, Kris Pearn
PG
Escape From Pretoria
Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.
Daniel Radcliffe, Francis Annan, David Barron, Mark Blaney, Jackie Sheppard, LH Adams, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart
PG-13
First Cow
A cook joins a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory and befriends a Chinese immigrant.
Toby Jones, Kelly Reichardt, Anish Savjani, Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Jonathan Raymond, John Magaro, Orion Lee
The Postcard Killings
In The Postcard Killings, based on the James Patterson and Liza Marklund #1 New York Times bestselling novel, NY Detective Jacob Kanon’s (Jeffery Dean Morgan) world is destroyed when his daughter and son-in-law are brutally murdered in London. Unable to sit idly by and do nothing, Jacob travels to London get the answers he needs. As he learns of similar heinous murders happening across Europe - each preceded by a postcard sent to a local journalist - Jacob is in a race against time to stop the killings and find justice for his little girl.
Danis Tanovic, Liza Marklund, Andrew Stern, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Connie Nielsen, Cush Jumbo, Denis O’Hare, Naomi Battrick
NR
The Informer
Reformed criminal and former special ops soldier Pete Koslow (Kinnaman), in order to free himself from jail and return to his wife (de Armas) and daughter, has been working undercover for crooked FBI handlers (Pike, Common and Owen) to infiltrate the Polish mob’s drug trade in New York. In a final step towards freedom, Koslow must return to the one place he’s fought so hard to leave, Bale Hill Prison, where his mission becomes a race against time when a drug deal goes wrong and threatens to identify him as a mole.
Ana de Armas, Rosamund Pike, Kevin Frakes, Mark Lane, Joel Kinnaman, Erica Lee, Basil Iwanyk, Ollie Madden
Stargirl
A homeschooled teenage girl enrolls in an Arizona high school, altering the ecosystem of the student body with her nonconformity.
Giancarlo Esposito, Grace VanderWaal, Julia Hart, Kristin Hahn, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jordan Horowitz, Graham Verchere, Karan Brar
PG
Emma
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Callum Turner, Bill Nighy, Johnny Flynn, Connor Swindells, Autumn de Wilde, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Tyger Williams
PG
Human Capital
As perspectives shift between parents and children, an impulsive business deal brings together two families from across the social divide, with tragic consequences. A real estate agent puts his livelihood at stake with a desperate gamble, a wealthy housewife is confronted with the profound void in her life, and a teenage girl falls deeply in love for the first time
Maya Hawke, Oren Moverman, Liev Schreiber, Marc Meyers, Alex Wolff, Peter Sarsgaard, Marisa Tomei, Fred Hechinger
The Call of the Wild
The story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team--and later its leader--Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.
Chris Sanders, Harrison Ford, Erwin Stoff, Dan Stevens, Karen Gillan, Omar Sy, Colin Woodell, Michael Green
Emma
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Callum Turner, Bill Nighy, Johnny Flynn, Connor Swindells, Autumn de Wilde, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Tyger Williams
PG
Dolittle
A vivid reimagining of the classic tale of the man who could talk to animals.
John Cena, Tom Holland, Ralph Fiennes, Antonio Banderas, Craig Robinson, Robert Downey Jr., Joe Roth, Jim Broadbent
PG
The Turning
The Turning takes us to a mysterious estate in the Maine countryside, where newly appointed nanny Kate is charged with the care of two disturbed orphans, Flora and Miles. Quickly, she discovers that both the children and the house are harboring dark secrets and things may not be as they appear.
Roy Lee, Finn Wolfhard, Scott Bernstein, Carey Hayes, Alfre Woodard, Niall Greig Fulton, Seth William Meier, Floria Sigismondi
PG-13
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Dark Nuns
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