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 2008 Movies Based on Books
Read the Book Before You See the Movie. Which is better? You decide. Browse movies based on books.
Towelhead (Race, Predator, Adolescence, Culture, Adaptation)
  
PLOT: A meditation on race, adolescence and alienation, the story offers an unflinching look at what happens as a young woman's sexuality blooms when only a predatory neighbor (Aaron Eckhart) is paying attention. After 13-year-old Jasira (Summer Bishil) is sent to live with her father in Houston, she finds herself coming of age in the shadow of his old world, authoritarian ideas, which includes his dissaproval of her friendship with a boy who's black. The real threat of course is the neighbor, who, in order to get close to Jasira, hires her to baby-sit his son. AUTHOR: Alicia Erian
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2008 Movies Based On Books List |
| Movie Title | Book Title | Author |
 21 |  Bringing Down the House | Ben Mezrich | | Appaloosa | Appaloosa | Robert B. Parker | | Ballet Shoes | Ballet Shoes | Noel Streatfeild | | Beaufort | Beaufort | Ron Leshem | | Blindness | Blindness | José Saramago | | Body of Lies | Body of Lies | David Ignatius | | Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The | Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The | John Boyne | | Choke | Choke | Chuck Palahniuk | | Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The | Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The | C. S. Lewis | | City of Ember | City of Ember | Jeanne Duprau | | Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The | Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The | F. Scott Fitzgerald | | Dark Knight, The | Batman | Bob Kane | | Duchess, The | Georgiana | Amanda Foreman | | He's Just Not That Into You | He's Just Not That Into You | Greg Behrendt | | Horton Hears a Who! | Horton Hears a Who! | Dr. Seuss | | House | House | Ted Dekker | | In the Electric Mist | In the Electric Mist | James Lee Burke | | Informers, The | Informers, The | Bret Easton Ellis | | Iron Man | Iron Man | Stan Lee | | John Adams | John Adams | David McCullough | | Jumper | Jumper | Steven Gould | | Kit Kittredge: An American Girl | Kit an American Girl | Valerie Tripp | | Let the Right One In | Let the Right One In | John Ajvide Lindqvist | | Life Before Her Eyes, The | Life Before Her Eyes, The | Laura Kasischke | | Lipstick Jungle | Lipstick Jungle | Candace Bushnell | | Marley & Me | Marley & Me | John Grogan | | Married Life | Five Roundabouts to Heaven | John Bingham | | Miracle at St. Anna | Miracle at St. Anna | James McBride | | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Winifred Watson | | Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The | Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The | Michael Chabon | | Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist | Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist | Rachel Cohn | | Nights in Rodanthe | Nights in Rodanthe | Nicholas Sparks | | Northanger Abbey | Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | | Other Boleyn Girl, The | Other Boleyn Girl, The | Philippa Gregory | | Privileged | How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls | Zoey Dean | | Reader, The | Reader, The | Bernhard Schlink | | Revolutionary Road | Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates | | Ruins, The | Ruins, The | Scott Smith | | Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, The | Second Summer of the Sisterhood, The | Ann Brashares | | Snow Angels | Snow Angels | Stewart O'Nan | | Soloist, The | Soloist, The | Steve Lopez | | Speed Racer | Mach Go Go Go | Tatsuo Yoshida | | Spiderwick Chronicles, The | Spiderwick Chronicles, The | Holly Black | | Suburban Girl | Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The | Melissa Bank | | Tale of Despereaux, The | Tale of Despereaux, The | Kate DiCamillo | | Tenth Circle, The | Tenth Circle, The | Jodi Picoult | | Then She Found Me | Then She Found Me | Elinor Lipman | | Towelhead | Towelhead | Alicia Erian | | True Blood | Dead Until Dark | Charlaine Harris | | Twilight | Twilight | Stephenie Meyer | | Wanted | Wanted | Mark Millar | | What Just Happened? | What Just Happened? | Art Linson | | Yes Man | Yes Man | Danny Wallace |
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
~Martin Farquhar Tupper
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