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| 1. | Based on a book by Ian McEwan, this movie opens as the protagonist is involved in a rescue of a runaway hot air balloon. | ||
| Amsterdam | |||
| Atonement | |||
| The Child in Time | |||
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Enduring Love | ||
| 2. | Adapted from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, this classic science fiction flick is known under the title: | ||
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Blade Runner | ||
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | |||
| Planet of the Apes | |||
| Star Wars | |||
| 3. | Remains of the Day was an Academy Award for Best Picture and starred Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. Who wrote the novel on which it was based? | ||
| Julian Barnes | |||
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Kazuo Ishiguro | ||
| Haruki Murakami | |||
| Muriel Spark | |||
| 4. | We all love the chemistry between Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man. What is the name of the author who created the book on which their film was based? | ||
| Raymond Chandler | |||
| James Ellison | |||
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Dashiell Hammett | ||
| Lillian Hellman | |||
| 5. | Roald Dahl is the author of this book, which director/writer Wes Anderson adapted to film. | ||
| The Darjeeling Limited | |||
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Fantastic Mr. Fox | ||
| The Royal Tenenbaums | |||
| Rushmore | |||
| 6. | Bing Crosby starred in this 1949 fantasy-comedy, based on a novel by Mark Twain. | ||
| The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | |||
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | ||
| A Dog's Tale | |||
| The Prince and the Pauper | |||
| 7. | The film adaptation of High Fidelity may have been set in Chicago, but the book was set in London, as it was written by this British author: | ||
| Susanna Clark | |||
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Nick Hornby | ||
| Hilary Mantel | |||
| David Mitchell | |||
| 8. | Clueless may be set at a Beverly Hills high school in the 1990s, but it's loosely based on which Jane Austen novel? | ||
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Emma | ||
| Mansfield Park | |||
| Persuasion | |||
| Pride and Prejudice | |||
| 9. | Sofia Coppola's first full-length feature as a director was based on this Jeffrey Eugenides novel, which centers around the Lisbon sisters. | ||
| Air Mail | |||
| Lost in Translation | |||
| Middlesex | |||
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The Virgin Suicides | ||
| 10. | You may not have realized that Bambi, Disney's 1942 animated film, was based on an Austrian novel published in 1923. What is the name of the book's author? | ||
| Franz Kafka | |||
| Joseph Roth | |||
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Felix Salten | ||
| Stefan Zweig | |||
| 11. | Ewan McGregor starred in this Danny Boyle-directed film, based on the cult favorite book by Irvine Welsh. | ||
| Filth | |||
| A Life Less Ordinary | |||
| Porno | |||
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Trainspotting | ||
| 12. | The Humphrey Bogart/Katharine Hepburn film The African Queen was based on a book by this author, who also wrote the Horatio Hornblower series. | ||
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C.S. Forester | ||
| E.M. Forster | |||
| H. Rider Haggard | |||
| Rudyard Kipling | |||
| 13. | This adaptation of a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert featured Kyle MacLachlan as Muad'Dib and Sting as Feyd-Rautha. | ||
| 1984 | |||
| The Day of the Triffids | |||
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Dune | ||
| Starship Troopers | |||
| 14. | Michael Mann directed this 1986 film, adapted from Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon, featuring Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecter. | ||
| Band of the Hand | |||
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Manhunter | ||
| Silence of the Lambs | |||
| Thief | |||
| 15. | Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist star in the Swedish film Men Who Hate Women, based on a book by Stieg Larsson that is better known in North America by which title? | ||
| Frozen Tracks | |||
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo | ||
| The Ice Princess | |||
| Let the Right One In | |||
| 16. | In the movie Field of Dreams, Ray seeks out a reclusive author named Terence Mann. In the book version, Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella, the author contacted by Ray is named... | ||
| Denis Johnson | |||
| Cormac McCarthy | |||
| Thomas Pynchon | |||
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J.D. Salinger | ||
| 17. | Author Lois Duncan has expressed distaste at which of her young adult novels becoming a horror film? | ||
| Cabin Fever | |||
| Hotel for Dogs | |||
| Idle Hands | |||
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I Know What You Did Last Summer | ||
| 18. | Clint Eastwood directed an adaptation of this non-fiction book by John Berendt, which followed a number of eccentric personalities from Savannah, Georgia. | ||
| The Bridges of Madison County | |||
| The City of Falling Angels | |||
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | ||
| Mystic River | |||
| 19. | Randle Patrick McMurphy does battle with Nurse Ratched in this Academy Award winning adaptation of a book by Ken Kesey. | ||
| Carnal Knowledge | |||
| The Last Detail | |||
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | ||
| Sometimes a Great Notion | |||
| 20. | Scott Smith followed up his novel A Simple Plan, which was adapted to a film by director Sam Raimi, with this book about malevolent plants that was brought to the big screen by executive producer Ben Stiller. | ||
| Attack of the Killer Tomatoes | |||
| Creepshow | |||
| Little Shop of Horrors | |||
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The Ruins | ||
| 21. | This book, by S.E. Hinton, was adapted into a movie that featured such characters as Ponyboy, Sodapop, Two-Bit and Cherry. | ||
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The Outsiders | ||
| Rumble Fish | |||
| Tex | |||
| That Was Then... This Is Now | |||
| 22. | This Norman Maclean novella featured two young men who were devoted to fly fishing. Robert Redford directed the theatrical adaptation. | ||
| Bait Shop | |||
| Legends of the Fall | |||
| On Golden Pond | |||
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A River Runs Through It | ||
| 23. | Aaliyah's final movie role was in this movie, adapted from the Anne Rice novel by the same name. | ||
| Exit to Eden | |||
| Interview With the Vampire | |||
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Queen of the Damned | ||
| The Vampire Lestat | |||
| 24. | This Charles Webb novel was adapted into a movie that featured a soundtrack by Simon and Garfunkel. | ||
| Almost Famous | |||
| Girl, Interrupted | |||
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The Graduate | ||
| Kingpin | |||
| 25. | Cameron Crowe, known for directing and writing such films as Say Anything..., Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, wrote a book about his experiences when he posed as a high school student for one year. Crowe adapted that book into a screenplay for a movie titled... | ||
| Better Off Dead | |||
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High | ||
| Porky's | |||
| Risky Business | |||
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