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 2010 Movies Based on Books
Read the Book Before You See the Movie. Which is better? You decide. Browse movies based on books.
| SHUTTER ISLAND (Psychological, Thriller, Visions, Prison, Adaptation)
PLOT: Shutter Island, off Massachusetts's coast, is an army facility turned hospital for the criminally insane. When a beautiful-and certifiably crazy-patient escapes, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), are called in to investigate. Embroiled in uncertainties and mystery, the two soon learn there's much more at stake than simply finding one missing woman. AUTHOR: Dennis Lehane
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| DEAR JOHN (Army, College, Tragedy, Love, Illness, Adaptation)
PLOT: John Tyree (Channing Tatum) meets UNC student Savannah Lynn Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) while he is home on leave from the army. They share two fleeting summer weeks together before he returns to active duty. John can't wait to come home for good, but then September 11th happens and he reenlists. Will Savannah wait for John, or will the tragedy lead to a change in her relationship with her close friend Tim (Henry Thomas), who pines for her? The movie is based on the Nicholas Sparks novel. AUTHOR: Nicholas Sparks
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| BOARDWALK EMPIRE (Crime, Prohibition, Gangster, HBO, Adaptation)
PLOT: The HBO Boardwalk Empire TV series is based on the book by Nelson Johnson. The story follows Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), the corrupt treasurer of Atlantic City during the Prohibition era 1920s. Nucky does business with notorious criminals like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, while trying to keep his overzealous protege, Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt), under control. AUTHOR: Nelson Johnson
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| ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Children's Book, Fantasy, Disney, Adaptation)
PLOT: In this adapation by Tim Burton, Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns to the whimsical world she encountered as a young girl reuniting her with her childhood friends including The White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), The Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry) and all your other favorites. AUTHOR: Lewis Carroll
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| TOWN, THE (Thriller, Heist, Robbery, Romance, Adaptation)
PLOT: Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is a bank robber with no regard for others, until he robs the wrong bank that is. During the heist he takes bank manager Claire Keesey hostage but after letting her go, he can't get her out of his mind. He works his way into her life and she falls for him, not realizing that he is the robber she continues to fear. Their twisted romance is a dangerous one and there is no way to tell how it will end. AUTHOR: Chuck Hogan
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2010 Movies Based On Books List |
| Movie Title | Book Title | Author |
 Alice in Wonderland |  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll | | American, The | A Very Private Gentleman | Martin Booth | | Boardwalk Empire | Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City | Nelson Johnson | | Charlie St. Cloud | The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud | Ben Sherwood | | Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The | Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The | C. S. Lewis | | Creation | Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution | Randal Keynes | | Dear John | Dear John | Nicholas Sparks | | Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney | | Eat, Pray, Love | Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | | Eclipse | Eclipse | Stephenie Meyer | | Extraordinary Measures | Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million and Bucked the Medical Establishment in a Quest to Save His Children, The | Geeta Anand | | Fair Game | Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government | Valerie Plame Wilson | | Flipped | Flipped | Wendelin Van Draanen | | Freakonomics | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Steven D. Levitt | | Ghost Writer, The | Ghost, The | Robert Harris | | Girl Who Played with Fire, The | Girl Who Played with Fire, The | Stieg Larsson | | Green Zone | Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | | Gulliver's Travels | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J.K. Rowling | | How to Train Your Dragon | How to Train Your Dragon | Cressida Cowell | | It's Kind of a Funny Story | It's Kind of a Funny Story | Ned Vizzini | | Last Song, The | Last Song, The | Nicholas Sparks | | Last Station, The | Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year, The | Jay Parini | | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | The Guardians of Ga'Hoole | Kathryn Lasky | | Let Me In | Let Me In | John Ajvide Lindqvist | | Letters to Juliet | Letters to Juliet: Celebrating Shakespeare's Greatest Heroine, the Magical City of Verona, and the Power of Love | Lise Friedman | | Love and Other Drugs | Hard Sell: Love and Other Drugs | Jamie Reidy | | Never Let Me Go | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | Lightning Thief, The | Rick Riordan | | Priest | Priest | Min-Woo Hyung | | Ramona and Beezus | Beezus and Ramona | Beverly Cleary | | Red | Red | Warren Ellis | | Repo Men | Repossession Mambo, The | Eric Garcia | | Restrepo | War | Sebastian Junger | | Romantics, The | Romantics, The | Galt Niederhoffer | | Runaways, The | Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway | Cherie Currie | | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World | Bryan Lee O'Malley | | Secretariat | Secretariat: The Making of a Champion | William Nack | | Shutter Island | Shutter Island | Dennis Lehane | | Social Network, The | The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal | Ben Mezrich | | Tangled | Rapunzel | Brothers Grimm | | Tempest, The | The Tempest | William Shakespeare | | Town, The | Prince of Thieves | Chuck Hogan | | True Grit | True Grit | Charles Portis | | Way Back, The | Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, The | Slavomir Rawicz | | Youth in Revolt | Youth in Revolt | C. D. Payne |
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
~Martin Farquhar Tupper
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