Best and Worst Movies of 2014

BEST:

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Muppets Most Wanted

Divergent

The Fault in Our Stars

This is Where I Leave You

The Judge

St. Vincent

Dumb and Dumber To

A Million Ways to Die in the West

Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Jersey Boys

Guardians of the Galaxy

Boyhood

Fury

Get Santa

Nightcrawler

And the Oscar Goes to .....

The Homesman


WORST:

Neighbors

The Monument Men

Maleficent

Perfect Sisters

Celebrities With the Most Children

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These celebrities have FIVE or more children.


FIVE:

President John Quincy Adams had five children with his wife.

Rex Allen had five kids from two wives.

Woody Allen had 5 children with two women. Four of the children are adopted.

Gregg Allman had five children with five women, one with Cher.

Robert Altman had five children from three wives.

Lance Armstrong has five children from two wives.

Lewis Arquette had five children with one wife. Some of his children include Patricia, Rosanna and David Arquette.

John Astin has five children from two wives.  One wife was actress Patty Duke.

Daniel Baldwin has five children from four women. 

Michael Biehn has five children from three wives.  One child with Jennifer Blanc. 

Eddie Bracken had five kids from one wife.

Beau Bridges has five children from two wives. Son is actor Jordan Bridges.

Pierce Brosnan has five children from two wives.

James Caan has five children from four women. His son is actor Scott Cann.

John Carradine had five children with two wives.  One adopted.

Johnny Cash had five children from two wives.

Winston Churchill had five children from one wife.

Tom Clancy had five children from two wives.

President Grover Cleveland had five children with his wife.

Nat 'King" Cole had three biological children and two adopted with one wife. His daughter was singer Natalie Cole.

Phil Collins has five children from three woman. His daughter is actress Lilly Collins.

Bill Cosby has five children from one wife. One son was murdered.

Rosemary Clooney has five children from husband Jose Ferrer.

Billy Connolly has five children from two wives.  Three kids with actress Pamela Stephenson.

Lindsay Crosby had  five kids from three wives.

Phillip Crosby had five kids from three wives.

Cyril Cusack had five children with his wife. His three daughters are English actresses Sinead, Sorcha, and Niamh Cusack.

Brian Dennehy has five children from two marriages.

Phil Donahue had five kids with one wife.  His second wife, Marlo Thomas helped raise them.

Arthur Conan Doyle had five children with his wife.

Jeff Dunham has five children from two wives.

Dominick Dunne had five children from one wife. 

Harrison Ford has four children for two marriages and one adopted child from his third marriage to actress Calista Flockhart.

Jim Gaffigan has five children from one wife.

J. Paul Getty has five sons with four wives. Two died before him.

Luis Guzman has five children from one wife.

Fred Gwynne had five children from one wife.

Zac Hanson has five children from one wife. 

Puppeteer Jim Henson had five children from one wife.  His son is Brian Henson.

Writer Joe Hill has five children from two wives. 

Darla Hood had five children from two husbands.

Bill Hudson has five children with three women, two being actresses Goldie Hawn and Cindy Williams.

Victor Hugo had five children from one wife.

John Huston had two children with his fourth wife, one from a mistress and two adopted. His daughter is actress Anjelica Huston.

Jill Ireland had three biological children and two adopted with two husbands.

President Andrew Johnson had five children with his wife.

Don Johnson has five children from three women.  One with actress Melanie Griffith.

Michael Jordan has five children from two wives.

Elia Kazan had five children from two wives.

Larry King had five children from three wives.  One son was adopted. 

Burt Lancaster had five children from one wife.

Cloris Leachman has five children from one husband.

Elmore Leonard had five children with one wife.

Gordon MacRae had five children from two wives.

Michael Madsen has five children with two wives.

Jayne Mansfield had five children from three husbands. Her daughter is actress Mariska Hargitay.

Kevin McCarthy had five children from two wives. 

Paul McCartney has five children from two wives. His daughter is fashion designer Stella McCartney.

David McCullough had five children from one wife. 

Malcolm McDowell has five children from two wives.

John McEnroe has five children from two wives.

Ewan McGregor has five children from two wives. 

Ed McMahon had five children from two wives.

John Mellencamp has five children from three wives.

Eddie Money had five children from one wife.

Patricia Neal had five children with Roald Dahl.

Anthony Newley had five children with three wives.  One wife being Joan Collins.

Brigitte Nielson has five children from four men.

Jack Nicholson has five children from four women.

Dean Norris has five children from one wife. 

Chris O'Donnell has five children from one wife.

Rosie O'Donnell has five children. Her ex-wife had three children thru artificial insemination and she has two adopted children.

Shaquille O'Neal has five children from two women.

Jamie Oliver has five children with one wife.

Roy Orbison had five children from two wives.

Don Pardo had five children with one wife.

Alan Parker had five children from two wives. 

Les Paul had five children from two wives.

Luciano Pavarotti had five children from two wives.

Gregory Peck had five children from two wives.

Mario Puzo had five children from one wife.

Donald Pleasence had five children from three wives.

Ronald Reagan had three children with Jane Wyman and two with Nancy Reagan.

Trent Reznor has five children from one wife. 

Geraldo Rivera has five children from four women. And said in his biography that he has slept with over 1,000 women.

Diana Ross has five children from three men. Her daughter is actress Tracee Ellis Ross.

Boris Sagal had five children from one wife. His daughter is actress Katey Sagal.

Carl Sagan had five children from three marriages.

Joe Sawyer had five children from one wife.

Charles M. Schulz had five children from one wife.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has five children. Four with Maria Shriver and one from an extramarital affair.

John Singleton had five kids from four women.

Tom Skerritt has five children from three wives. One daughter is adopted.

Wesley Snipes has five children from two marriages.

Nicholas Sparks has five children from his ex-wife. 

Tori Spelling has five children from one husband.

Sylvester Stallone has five children from two wives.

Cat Stevens has five children from one wife.

Donald Sutherland has five children from two wives. His son is actor Kiefer Sutherland

William Talman had five children with three wives.

Richard Thomas has five children with two wives.

Strom Thurmond had five kids from two women. One was with a black woman in his youth which he never publicly revealed due to his political views.

Donald Trump has five children from three wives.

Harvey Weinstein has five children from two wives. Two children from his ex-wife designer Georgina Chapman.

Bruce Willis has five children from two wives. Three with Demi Moore.

Mare Winningham had five children with one husband.  

Actor Victor Wong had five children with two wives.

William Wyler had five children with one wife.

SIX:

President John and Abigail Adams had six children.

Don Ameche had six children from one wife.

Agent Rene Angelil had six children from three wives.  Three from his last wife, Celine Dion.

Paul Anka has six kids with two wives.

Marc Anthony has six children from three women.  One of the women was his ex-wife Jennier Lopez.  

Chester Bennington had six children from three women. One son was adopted.

Tom Berenger has six children from three wives.  

Maria Branwell-Bronte had six children from one husband.  Her daughters included writers Emily and Charlotte Bronte.

Actor, Foster Brooks had six children from two wives. 

President George H.W. Bush had six children with his wife, Barbara.

Francis X. Bushman had six children with two wives.  One wife was actress Beverly Bayne. 

Kirk Cameron has two biological children and four adopted with one wife.

Comedian Tim Conway has six children with one wife.

Kate Capshaw has six children with two husbands. Five with Steven Spielberg (2 adopted).

MacDonald Carey had six children with his wife. 

Timothy Carey had six children from one wife.

Tony Curtis had six children from three wives. His daughter is actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

Billy Ray Cyrus has six children from two women.  

Dino De Laurentiis had six children with two wives.

Mos Def has six children from four women.

Phyllis Diller had six children from one husband.

Singer Ray Dorset had six children from three wives.  

Dr. Dre has six children from five different women. 

Bob Dylan has six children from two wives.  One daughter is adopted. 

Dick Enberg had six children from two wives. 

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has six children from two wives.

Businessman Eugene du Pont had six children with his wife, Amelia.

Max Factor had six children with three wives.

Donald Faison has six children from three women.

Designer Salvatore Ferragamo had six children with one wife.

Music producer David Foster has six children with four women.

Actor Douglas Fowley had six kids with four wives.

Robert Frost had six children from one wife.

Kelsey Grammer has six children from four women.

Sterling Hayden had six children from two wives.  

William Randolph Hearst had five children with his wife and one with his mistress, actress Marion Davies.

Lauryn Hill has six children from two men. Five with Rohan Marley.

Tony Hillerman had six children with one wife.

Dustin Hoffman has six children from two wives. one child was adopted.

Paul Hogan has six children from two wives. 

Clifton James had six children from two wives.

Kris Jenner has six children from two husbands.

Waylon Jennings had six children, one adopted, from three wives.

Angelina Jolie had three biological children with Brad Pitt and three adopted.

Prime Minister of England, Boris Johnson has six children from three women.  

Actor Christopher Jones had six children with three women.  One daughter was with Susan Strasberg.

Actor Alex Karras had six children from two wives.

Douglas Kennedy had six children from two wives.

Richard Kiley had six children with one wife.

Lorenzo Lamas has six children from two wives and one girlfriend.

Jude Law has six children from two wives and two girlfriends. 

Daliah Lavi had six children with three husbands. 

Norman Lear had six children with three wives.

Boxer Joe Louis had six children from two wives.  He had two sons named Joseph Louis Jr. 

Joan Lunden has seven children.  Four are from two sets of twins born from a surrogate.

Loretta Lynn has six children from one husband.

Screenwriter Marc "Babaloo" Mandel has six children with one wife. One set of triplets.

Nelson Mandela had six children from two wives.

Madonna has two biological children (one with Guy Ritchie) and four adopted.

Robert L. May had six children from two wives.  

Frank McGlynn had six children with one wife.

Ron Moody had six children from one wife.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had six children with his wife.

Ed Nelson had six children with one wife.

Paul Newman had six children from two wives.

Ric Ocasek had six kids from three wives.

Edward James Olmos has two biological children from one wife and four adopted.

Sidney Poitier has six children from two wives.

Gordon Ramsay has six children with one wife.

Jean Reno has six children from three wives.

President Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt had six children.

Jason Robards had six children from three marriages. One with Lauren Bacall.

President Theodore Roosevelt had six children from two wives.

Roberto Rossellini had six children from three wives.  He was married to Ingrid Bergman . Their daughter is Isabella Rossellini

Telly Savalas had six children from four different women.

Gene Shalit has six children from one wife.  One deceased. 

Emil Sitka had six children from one wife.

Actor Lionel Stander had six children from five wives.

Musician Sting has six children from two wives.

Jeffrey Tambor has six children from three wives.

President Zachary Taylor had six children with his wife.

Rip Torn had six children from three wives. His three wives were actresses Ann Wedgeworth, Geraldine Page and Amy Wright

Ike Turner had six children from four women.  He had one biological son with Tina Turner and adopted her first son from a previous relationship.  

President Martin Van Buren had six children with his wife.

James Van Der Beek has six children from one wife.

NASA mathematician Dorothy Vaughan had six children with one husband. 

Fritz Von Erich had six sons, five of which died before him. 

Chris Wallace has six children from two wives.  

Actor John M. Watson Sr. had six children with one wive.

Producer Bob Weinstein has six children from two wives.

Malcolm X had six daughters from one wife. 

SEVEN:

Joss Ackland has seven children from one wife. 

Don Adams had seven children from three wives.

Jim Bakker has two biological children with his first wife, Tammie Faye.  He has five adopted children with his second wife.

Writer William Peter Blatty had seven children from three wives.

Actor Philip Bosco has seven children from one wife.

Bobby Brown has seven children from four different women.  His daughter Bobbi Christina, (Whitney Houston's daughter)  died.

Actor Joseph Campanella has seven children with one wife.

Actress Mary Carr had seven children from one husband.  She outlived her husband and three children.

Sean "Diddy" Combs has seven children from four women. 

Screenwriter Joe Connelly had seven children from two wives.

Bing Cosby had seven children with two wives. (horrible father) 

Dennis Cosby had seven children from two wives and a girlfriend.  One daughter was adopted.

Kevin Costner has seven children from two wives and a girlfriend. 

Actress Jeanne Crain had seven children with one husband.

Actor Robert Cummings had seven children from two of his five wives.

Robert De Niro has seven children from four women. One child is adopted and three were born via surrogate.

Diane Disney-Miller (Walt Disney's daughter) had seven children with her husband.

Football player Ryan Fitzpatrick has seven children from one wife.

President James Garfield had seven children with his wife.

Gordan Getty has four children with his wife and three with a mistress.

Taylor Hanson has seven children with one wife.

Steve Harvey has seven kids with three wives.  Three are adopted.

L. Ron Hubbard had seven kids with three wives.

Quincy Jones has seven children from five women. His daughter is actress Rashida Jones.

Ken Kercheval had seven children from three wives.

Robert E. Lee had seven children from one wife. 

Jerry Lewis has seven children with two wives.  Two of the children are adopted.

Rohan Marley has seven children from two women.  Five with Lauryn Hill.

Cartoonist Bill Mauldin had seven children from three wives. 

John McCain had seven children from two wives.

Roger Miller had seven children from three women.

Actor Cameron Mitchell had seven children from two wives.

Inventor Samuel Morse had seven children from two wives. 

Willie Nelson has seven children from three wives.

Maureen O'Sullivan had seven children with one husband. One of her children being actress, Mia Farrow.

Nelson Rockefeller had seven children from two wives.  

James Roosevelt (FDR's son): had seven children with his four wives.

F.A.O. Schwarz had seven children from one wife. 

George C. Scott had seven children from four wives and one lover. One adopted son. His biological son is actor Campbell Scott

Steven Seagal has seven children from four women.

Charles Spencer 9th Earl has seven children from three wives.  

Steven Spielberg had one son with ex-wife Amy Irving. He adopted his second wife Kate Capshaw's two children and had four more kids with her, three biological and one adopted.

Danielle Steel has seven children from three husbands.

Julia Stephen had seven children with two husbands.  One child was Virginia Woolf. 

Harriet Beecher Stowe had seven children with one husband. 

Macy's owner Isidor Straus had seven children from one wife.

Cornelius Vanderbilt II had seven children from one wife. 

Evelyn Waugh had seven children with his wife.  He had an infant daughter, Mary, that died in 1940.   

John Wayne had seven children from two wives.

Stevie Wonder has two children from a wife and five others from extramarital affairs.

EIGHT:

Alec Baldwin has eight children for two wives. One child with actress Kim Basinger. 

Ned Beatty has eight children from three wives.

Ingmar Bergman had eight children from five wives.

Glenn Campbell had eight children from four wives.

Cesar Chavez: had eight children from one wife. 

Robert Conrad had eight children from two wives.

Fashion designer Dapper Dan has eight children from seven women. 

John Doucette had eight children with opera singer Katherine Sambles.

Clint Eastwood has eight kids with two wives and three other woman (some from affairs).

John Farrow had one child with his first wife and seven with his wife actress Maureen O'Sullivan.

Kate Gosselin has eight children from one husband.

Woody Guthrie had eight children from three wives.  Unfortunately, Guthrie died from Huntington's disease at 55. This disease is extremely hereditary. Two of his daughters died from the disease. Two other children died in auto accidents and one daughter in a fire.

Alexander Hamilton had eight children with one wife.  

President Rutherford Hayes had eight children with his wife.

Actor James Hayter had eight children from two wives. 

Gloria Hemingway (born Greg Hemingway) had eight children before sex-change operation. 

Hotelier Barron Hilton had eight children with one wife.

Mick Jagger has eight children from five women.

Kris Kristofferson has eight children from three wives.

Cassandra Leigh-Austen had eight children from one husband.  Her daughter was Jane Austen. 

Dean Martin had eight children from three wives. One son predeceased him.

Bill Mauldin had eight children from three wives.

Bode Miller had eight children with three women.  His 19 month old daughter drown in 2018.

Marie Osmond has eight children from two marriages. One son died.

Businessman Ron Perelman has eight kids from four wives.

Director Ken Russell had eight kids with three wives.

General William Sherman: had eight kids with one wife. 

Stellan Skarsgard has eight kids with two wives. His son is actor Alexander Skarsgard.   Stellan got a vasectomy after the last child.  Stating "Eight seems like enough."

Zack Snyder has eight children with three women.  Four children were adopted. 

Rod Stewart has eight children from five different woman. 

Jim Thorpe had eight children from three wives.  

Mike Tyson has four children from two wives and four from other women.

William Henry Vanderbilt had eight kids with one wife. 

Frank Lloyd Wright had eight children from 2 wives. One daughter was adopted from his second wife's first marriage.

NINE:

Muhammad Ali has nine children from five different woman.

Ernie Anderson had nine children with two wives. One of his sons is director Paul Thomas Anderson.

Baseball Player James Bunning had nine children with his wife, Mary.

Mel Gibson has nine children from three different women.

Steven Hill has nine children with two wives.

Rose Kennedy had nine children from one husband.  Including JFK and RFK. 

Michael Landon had eight children from three wives. One adopted daughter from his wife's previous marriage.

Actress Judith Lowry had nine children from one husband. 

Jacquelyn Mitchard: has nine children.  Three biological sons from her first husband who passed away from cancer.  A girl she adopted while a widow.  Then had five more children with her second husband (most are adopted). 

Clement Clarke Moore had nine children from one wife.  

Olive Osmond had nine children with one husband. 

Roy Rogers had nine children from two wives. Five were adopted. Three pre-deceased him. 

Antonin Scalia had nine children from one wife.

Queen Victoria had nine children with one husband, Prince Albert. 

TEN:

James Brown had ten children from multiple women.

Chang Bunker: had ten children with one wife.

Poet Robert Burns had one child with his mother's servant and then nine children with his wife. 

Charles Darwin had ten children with one wife.

Dennis Day had ten kids from one wife.

Charles Dickens had ten children from one wife.

Actor Ty Hardin had ten kids with six wives.

President Andrew Jackson and his wife adopted ten children.

Norman Mailer had ten children from six wives. One son was adopted.

Eddie Murphy has ten children from five different women.

Elon Musk has five children with his ex-wife (their 1st child died from SIDS) and four more with two girlfriends.

Robert Shaw had ten children with three wives.  Two children were adopted.

George Westmore had ten children with two wives.  Supposedly his first wive gave birth to 19 children but only seven survived infancy.

ELEVEN:

Eng Bunker: had eleven children with one wife. 

Charlie Chaplin had 11 children from three wives.  Eight of them were from wife Oona O'Neil (36 years his junior.)

President William Harrison had eleven children with his wife.

Joe Hamilton had eleven children from two wives.  Three children from wife, Carol Burnett. 

Robert F. Kennedy had 11 children from one wife.  His last son was born after Kennedy's assassination.

Mickey Rooney had 11 kids from five wives. He married 8 times.

TWELVE:

King Alfonso XIII of Spain had six children with his wife and six from mistresses.

Josephine Baker adopted 12 children from countries all over the world. 

Nick Cannon has 12 children from six women.  One infant died. 

Ray Charles had 12 different children from 10 different woman, most during extramarital affairs.

George Foreman has 10 children from three different woman.  He has two adopted daughters.

Bob Marley had 3 children from his wife and adopted her two daughters.  He had seven other children from seven extramarital affairs.

Anthony Quinn had 12 children from four different women.

Charlotte Vieux Thorpe had 12 children with one husband.  Her son was Olympian Jim Thorpe.  

THIRTEEN:

Duane "Dog" Chapman has 13 children from four wives and two girlfriends.  One child is adopted. 

Charles Lindbergh had six children with his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh and seven children from extramarital affairs with three other women in Europe.

Cornelius Vanderbilt had 13 children from one wife. 

FOURTEEN:

Elzire Dionne had fourteen children with one husband.  She had the first set of quintuplets to survive in 1934. 

Isaac Hayes had six children from three wives... and many more from other women. 

President Thomas Jefferson had six children with his wife Martha and eight more with an enslaved woman named Sally Hemings.

Nadya Suleman "Octomom" has 14 children from in-vitro fertilization.

Leo Tolstoy had 14 children.  13 with his wife and one from a previous relationship.  

FIFTEEN:

Marlon Brando had 12 children from eight or more woman.  He also adopted three children.

Renowned Mill Owner and Nellie Bly's father, Michael Cochran had 15 children with two wives.

Rapper DMX (Earl Simmons) has 15 children from nine different women.

Mia Farrow has four biological children and 11 adopted.

SIXTEEN:

Ruler of the House of Habsburg (Marie Antoinette's mother) Maria Theresa had 16 children with one husband.

President John Tyler had fifteen children with two wives and one child with a slave.

SEVENTEEN:

Queen Maria Carolina of Naples had seventeen children with King Ferdinand IV

NINETEEN:

Michelle Duggar has 19 children from one husband.

TWENTY FOUR:

Isaac Singer had 24 (possibly 26) children from five different woman.  

Movie Adaptations You Didn't Know Were From Books

If the movie is named "To Kill a Mockingbird" it's obvious what book the movie is adapted from.  This blog is about movies you may not know where its origin is from because the title is so different.   I love surprising people with the fact that the amazing movie they just saw was originally an even more amazing book.


"Ad Astra" is loosely based on "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.

"A.I. Artificial Intelligence" is loosely based on "Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi

"Adaptation" is an adaptation of of Susan Orlean's book "The Orchid Thief".

"Agnes Browne" is an adaptation of a great novel called "The Mammy" by Brendan O'Carroll.

"Apocalypse Now" is an adaptation of the book "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.

"August Rush" is a spin on "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens.

"Bedazzled" is a spin on the German legend "Faust".

"Blade Runner" is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

"Bridget Jone's Diary" is a spin on "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austin.

"Clueless" is an adaptation of Jane Austin's "Emma".

"Cruel Intentions" is an adaptation of  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' "Dangerous Liaisons".

"The Cutting Edge" is a spin on Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew".

"Die Hard" is an adaptation of the book "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp.

"Easy A" is loosely based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlett Letter".

"Edward Scissorhands" is an adaptation of "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley.

"Field of Dreams" is an adaptation of W.P. Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe".

Disney's "Frozen" is a spin on "The Snow Queen" a story by Hans Christian Andersen.

"Good Fellas" is an adaptation of Nick Pileggi's book "Wise Guy".

"Independance Day" is loosely based on "War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells.

"It's a Wonderful Life" is an adaptation of the story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern.

"A Knight's Tale" is loosely based on the stories in "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Disney's "The Lion King" is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet".

"Mean Girls" is an adaptation of the self-help book "Queen Bees and Wannabes" by Rosalind
     Wiseman.

"My Fair Lady" is an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion".

"My Private Idaho" is loosely based on Shakespeare's "Henry IV".

"The Nutty Professor" is an adaptation of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

"O" is an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello".

"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is an adaptation of "The Odyssey" by Homer.

Disney's "Oliver and Company" is a spin on "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens.

"Pretty Woman" is an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion".

"Roxanne" is an adaptation of Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac".

"She's the Man" is loosely based on Shakespeare's "12th Night".

"She's the One" is an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion".

"A Simple Twist of Fate" is an adaptation of "Silas Marner" by George Eliot.

"Slumdog Millionaire" is an adaptation of the book "Q and A" by Vikas Swarup

"Stand By Me" is an adaptation of the short story "The Body" by Stephen King.

Disney's "Tangled" is a spin on the story "Rapunzel" by The Grimm Brothers.

"10 Things I Hate About You" is an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew".

"A Thousand Acres" is an adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear".

"There Will Be Blood" is an adaptation of Upton Sinclair's "Oil".

"The Town" is an adaptation of Chuck Hogan's book "Prince of Thieves".

"Trading Places" is a spin on "The Prince and the Pauper" by Charles Dickens.

"The Truth About Cats and Dogs" is a spin on Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac".

"2001: A Space Odyssey" is an adaptation of Arthur C. Clark's book "The Sentinel".

"West Side Story" is loosely based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".