For book lovers, the only thing better than your favorite movie is a film that also features your favorite book! Book lovers will want to watch these 11 blockbuster feature films that also feature books.
Books and films featured in this video:
1. in Miss Congeniality, FBI Special Agent Gracie Hart is seen reading Essentials Of Russian Grammar by Nicholas Maltzoff.
2. In Benny and Joon, Benny is seen reading The Look of Buster Keaton by Robert Benayoun.
3. In Dirty Dancing, Robbie the waiter (and creep) tries to persuade Baby to read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
4. In Adaptation, Charlie is having a hard time turning The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean into a screenplay.
5. In Julie & Julia, Julie decides to cook every single recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Childs.
6. In Pleasantville, stuck in a black-and-white TV show, Jennifer reads Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence.
7. In You’ve Got Mail, bookstore owners Kathleen and Joe meet over a cup of coffee and a copy of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
8. In Beetlejuice, The Handbook for the Recently Deceased introduces Barbara and Adam to life after death.
9. In Capote, Truman Capote travels to Kansas to learn about a murdered family and write his best-selling novel, In Cold Blood.
10. In The Hours, three women from three different time periods are interconnected by Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
11. In Little Miss Sunshine, Dwayne is reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche when his suicidal uncle comes to live with the family.
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