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These were popular books and were made into a movie after the book became a best-seller! Catch Me If You Can **  Format: DVD (left) and book by Frank Abagnale (right) Movie release date: 2002 Film Production: Dreamworks Rating: PG-13 Suggested Price: $9.98 [|www.bestbuy.com] Summary: Inspired by the extraordinary true story of a brilliant young master of deception and the FBI agent hot on his trail, //Catch Me If You Can// stars Oscar nominee Leonardo Di Caprio and Two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks. The story follows Frank Abagnale, Jr. as he successfully passes himself off as a pilot, a lawyer and a doctor - all before his 21st birthday! (Located on back of //Catch Me If You Can// DVD case//)// Online Review: Part of Spielberg's skill as a filmmaker comes in choosing the right collaborators. Janusz Kaminski's gorgeous cinematography, Michael Kahn's graceful editing, Jeff Nathanson's clever script, and John Williams' score all work well in unison, but the film's masterstroke is the casting of Walken as DiCaprio's utterly decent father . [|Metacritic Review] Movie Info URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/ A Christmas Story **  Format: DVD (left) and book by Jean Shepherd (right) Movie release date: 1983 Film Production: MGM Rating: PG Suggested Price: $29.99 [|www.bestbuy.com] Summary: The funniest thing about Christmas, according to Jean Shepherd's over-the top holiday comedy, is spending it with your own family. In 1940s Indiana, nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of his ideal Christmas gift: a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action Air Rifle. But when his gruff dad and doting mom regularly respond with "You'll shoot your eye out!" Ralphie mounts a full-scale, hint-dropping, Santa-begging campaign. In this tale you'll be caught up in all kinds of childhood calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the yellow-eyed Scotty Farkus affair to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit. (Located on back of //A Christmas Story// DVD case) Online Review: It is pitch-perfect, telling the story through the enthusiastic and single-minded vision of its hero Ralphie, and finding in young Peter Billingsley a sly combination of innocence and calculation. [|Metacritic Review] Movie Info URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/ Black Dahlia **  Format: DVD (left) and book by John Gilmore (right) Movie release date: 2006 Film Production: Universal Pictures Rating: R Suggested Price: $12.98 [|www.bestbuy.com] Summary: Inspired by the Most Notorious Unsolved Murder in California History. From the acclaimed director of Scarface and the author of LA Confidential comes the spellbinding thriller The Black Dahlia. Two ambitious cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), investigate the shocking murder of an aspiring young starlet. With a corpse so mutilated that photos are kept from the public, the case becomes an obsession for the men, and their lives begin to unravel. Blanchard's relationship with his girlfriend Kay (Scarlett Johansson) deteriorates, while Bleichert finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Madeleine (Hilary Swank), a wealthy woman with a dark and twisted connection to the victim. [|Universal Store] Online Review: The second half feels heavy and unfulfilled, potential greatness reduced to a good movie plagued with problems. [|Metacritic Review] Movie Info URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387877/ Interview with the Vampire **  Format: DVD (left) and book by Anne Rice (right) Movie release date: 1994 Film Production: Warner Bros. Rating: R Suggested Price: $19.98 [|www.bestbuy.com] Summary: The undead are among us and livelier than ever when Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and a talanted group of youngbloods star in //Interview with the Vampire//, the spellbinding screen adaptation of Anne Rice's bestseller. Box-office favorite Cruise stylishly plays the supremely evil, charismatic vampire Lestat. Pitt is Louis, lured by Lestat into the immortality of the damned, then tormented by an unalterable fact of vampire life: to survive, he must kill. Stephen Rea, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater and Kirsten Dunst also star. (Located on back of //Interview with the Vampire// DVD case) Online Review: The generally faithful script is by Anne Rice herself, the director is "The Crying Game"'s Neil Jordan, and both seem true to themselves and as true as they can be to artistic and visceral expectations. [//USA Today// 11Nov1994 Pg. 01.D] [|Metacritic Review]   Movie Info URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/ **
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Devil Wears Prada ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Format: DVD (left) and book by Lauren Weisberger (right) Movie release date: 2006 Film Production: Fox 2000 Pictures Rating: PG-13 Suggested Price: $14.98 [|www.bestbuy.com] Summary: Based on the hilarious best-selling novel, this sinfully funny movie stars Academy Award winner Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. As assistant to impossibly demanding New York fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Streep), young Andy Sachs (Hathaway) has landed a job that "a million girls would die for." Unfortunately, her heaven-sent appointment as Miranda's personal whipping girl just might be the death of her! (Located on back of //Devil Wears Prada// DVD case) Online Review: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bright and crisp and funny, the movie turns dish into art--or, if not quite into art, then at least into the kind of dazzling commercial entertainment that Hollywood, in the days of George Cukor or Stanley Donen, used to turn out. [|Metacritic Review] Movie Info URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458352/ Forrest Gump ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Format: DVD (left) and book by Winston Groom (right) Movie release date: 1994 Film Production: Paramount Pictures Rating: PG-13 Suggested Price: $14.98 [|www.bestbuy.com] Summary: You never know what you're gonna get." Like the movie itself, this line from Forrest Gump became an instant classic and an inspiration to millions of people worldwide. Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest in this acclaimed film from director Robert Zemeckis that rocketed to box-office history and touched the hearts of filmgoers like no other movie. Through three turbulent decades, Forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disability to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love. Forrest is the embodiment of an era, an innocent at large in an America that is losing its innocence. His heart knows what his limited IQ cannot. His moral compass never wavers. His triumphs become an inspiration to us all. Forrest Gump. It's the story of a lifetime. [|Paramount] Online Review: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What a magical movie. [|Metacritic Review] Movie Info URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/
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