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 2009 Movies Based on Books
Read the Book Before You See the Movie. Which is better? You decide. Browse movies based on books.
Where the Wild Things Are (Children, Imagination, Mother Son, No Place Like Home, Adaptation)
  
PLOT: Max is so mad at his mother one evening, when she puts him in his room, he sails off for a year, venturing out where the wild things are - huge, strange looking creatures with terrible eyes and terrible claws, who dance by the light of the moon. Fearful of Max, the creatures crown him as their ruler. The movie adaptation features the voices of Forest Whitaker, Paul Dano, Catherine Keener, and James Gandolfini. The script was penned by director Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers. AUTHOR: Maurice Sendak
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2009 Movies Based On Books List |
| Movie Title | Book Title | Author |
 A Christmas Carol |  A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | | Angels & Demons | Angels & Demons | Dan Brown | | Blind Side, The | Blind Side, The | Michael Lewis | | Box, The | Box: Uncanny Stories, The | Richard Matheson | | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | David Foster Wallace | | Christmas Hope, The | Christmas Hope, The | Donna VanLiere | | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Darren Shan | | Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs | Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs | Judi Barrett | | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Sophie Kinsella | | Coraline | Coraline | Neil Gaiman | | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Roald Dahl | | FlashForward | FlashForward | Robert Sawyer | | Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The | Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The | Stieg Larsson | | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | J.K. Rowling | | Hotel for Dogs | Hotel for Dogs | Lois Duncan | | I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell | I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell | Tucker Max | | I Love You, Beth Cooper | I Love You, Beth Cooper | Larry Doyle | | Informant!, The | Informant: A True Story, The | Kurt Eichenwald | | Inkheart | Inkheart | Cornelia Funke | | Invictus | Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation | John Carlin | | Justice League of America | Justice League of America | Gardner Fox | | Killshot | Killshot | Elmore Leonard | | Lovely Bones, The | Lovely Bones, The | Alice Sebold | | Me and Orson Welles | Me and Orson Welles | Robert Kaplow | | My Sister's Keeper | My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult | | Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The | Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The | Michael Chabon | | New Moon | New Moon | Stephenie Meyer | | No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The | No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The | Alexander McCall Smith | | Not Easily Broken | Not Easily Broken | T. D. Jakes | | Precious | Push | Sapphire | | Princess and the Frog, The | Frog Prince, The | Jacob Grimm | | Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The | Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The | Rebecca Miller | | Road, The | Road, The | Cormac McCarthy | | Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | | Slumdog Millionaire | Slumdog Millionaire | Vikas Swarup | | Spirit, The | Spirit, The | Will Eisner | | Taking of Pelham 123, The | Taking of Pelham 123, The | John Godey | | Taking Woodstock | Taking Woodstock | Elliot Tiber | | Time Traveler's Wife, The | Time Traveler's Wife, The | Audrey Niffenegger | | Up in the Air | Up in the Air | Walter Kirn | | Vampire Diaries, The | Vampire Diaries, The | L. J. Smith | | Velveteen Rabbit, The | Velveteen Rabbit, The | Margery Williams | | Watchmen | Watchmen | Alan Moore | | Where the Wild Things Are | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | | Whip It | Derby Girl | Shauna Cross | | Wolverine | Wolverine | Len Wein |
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
~Martin Farquhar Tupper
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