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by Sue Monk Kidd
Coming to Theaters October 17
An all-star cast featuring Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, and Sophie Okonedo brings Sue Monk Kidd's bestselling novel to the big screen. Set in South Carolina in 1964, it's the story of young Lily Owens, who, in the wake of her mother's untimely death, embarks on a personal journey in which she battles racism and discovers the true meaning of family.
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by Jeanne DuPrau
Coming to Theaters October 10
The film adaptation of the bestselling children's book The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau finds its way to theaters this fall. It could be lights out for the City (literally) unless two teens, Lina and Doon, can decipher the fragments of an ancient parchment and discover a way out of Ember. Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan, and Harry Treadaway light up the big screen in this anticipated movie.
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by Amanda Foreman
Limited Release September 19
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was a paragon of 18th century aristocracy, with extravagant fashion sense and political views. Her celebrity and fame came at the cost of deception, however. Keira Knightley brings this passionate and misunderstood figure to the screen.
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by Chuck Palahniuk
Coming to Theaters September 26
Chuck Palahniuk's bestselling novel, about one man's creative con to gain money to care for his elderly mother, hits theaters after a major bidding war; the smart, witty indie film took over the Sundance film festival. Sam Rockwell and Angelica Huston deliver this twisted tale of love and loss to the screen.
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by Stephenie Meyer
Coming to Theaters November 21
The electric romance between teens Isabella Swan and Edward Cullen is one of current culture's favorite love stories. The first novel in Stephenie Meyer's phenomenal series hits the screen later this year. Kirsten Stewart and Robert Pattinson take on the roles of the ill-fated pair: one vampire, one human. Early buzz has it that the fans of the Twilight saga will not be disappointed.
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by Kate DiCamillo
Coming to Theaters December 19
A large-eared and misunderstood mouse, Despereaux aspires to the life of a swashbuckling adventurer, ultimately learning that no challenge is too big if you have heart enough to see it through. Matthew Broderick, Sigourney Weaver, Dustin Hoffman, and Emma Watson lend their vocal talents to the CGI-animated film based on Kate Dicamillo's winning book.
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by Nicholas Sparks
Coming to Theaters September 26
Nicholas Sparks's love story, which takes place in the coastal North Carolina town of Rodanthe, is framed as a mother's tale to her grown daughter, in an attempt to ease her daughter's grief. Brought vividly to life by Diane Lane and Richard Gere, the big-screen retelling of this bestseller will tug at the heartstrings.
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by John Grogan
Coming to Theaters December 25
Marley, the lovable Labrador retriever who won our hearts with his incorrigible behavior (laced with undying affection for his master), will finally see his day on screen in December. Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston help bring John Grogan's bestselling book to life in this highly anticipated film adaptation.
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by Upton Sinclair
Now on DVD
With one of cinema's great menacing portrayals, Daniel Day-Lewis plumbs the depths of human greed in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. Based on Upton Sinclair's unflinching epic of the crusade for oil in a hardscrabble California town, the film is uncanny, visually arresting, and complemented by an equally intense performance by Paul Dano.
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by Wendy Orr
Now on DVD
Wendy Orr has said she penned a first draft of her delightful 1999 kids' adventure story when she was just 9 years old, about the same age as Nim, her Robinson Crusoe-like heroine. Now Nim's Island hits the big screen, with Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine)as the intrepid Nim, Jodie Foster as the agoraphobic adventure novelist Alex Rover, and 300 star Gerard Butler in a dual role.
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by Ian McEwan
Now on DVD
Keira Knightley leads a cast that includes James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, and Vanessa Redgrave in the film version of Ian McEwan's superb novel. A sharp, sophisticated study of morality, the story takes place in England between the wars and explores the fallout from a 13-year-old girl's confused interpretation of a tryst between her sister and a local boy.
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by Philippa Gregory
Now on DVD
History has linked Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII, but, as Philippa Gregory illuminates in her bestselling historical novel, it was Anne's sister, Mary, who had first won the king's favor. Scarlett Johansson plays the more sympathetic Mary to Natalie Portman's scheming, power-hungry Anne, whose fate is all too well known.
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by Cormac McCarthy
Now on DVD
A consummate chronicler of the American West, Cormac McCarthy explores the land along the Rio Grande in his novel: It's a present-day West that is as violent and lawless a landscape as it was a century ago. The film adaptation, written and directed by the Coen brothers, stars Tommy Lee Jones.
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by Khaled Hosseini
Now on DVD
Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Stranger Than Fiction) directs the adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's poignant debut novel, which explores fathers and sons, the friendship of two Afghan boys from different social classes, the dissolution of their friendship, and its redemption.
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