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In this article, we will explore the Carl Hiaasen books that have been made into movies, along with some interesting facts about the author and his work. 1. “Strip Tease” (1993) One of Carl Hiaasen’s most famous books, “Strip Tease” was adapted into a movie in 1996 starring Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds.
1. The Wild Robot. 20241h 42mPG. 8.5 (14K) Rate. 85Metascore. After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose. Director Chris Sanders Stars Lupita Nyong'o Pedro Pascal Kit Connor.
- Strangers on A Train
- The Price of Salt
- The Blunderer
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Deep Water
- The Cry of The Owl
- The Two Faces of January
- The Glass Cell
- Ripley Under Ground
- Ripley’s Game
Highsmith’s debut novel, Strangers on a Train, was published in 1950, marking the start of her notable career. This reputation was bolstered the next year, when Alfred Hitchcock, known as the “Master of Suspense,” adapted the book to screen. In Highsmith’s novel, a fateful chance encounter between two disgruntled strangers on a train has deadly con...
While Highsmith is best known for cold-blooded crime novels filled with murders and deception, her 1952 romance novel The Price of Salt, about a forbidden love affair between a housewife and a shopgirl, is regarded as one of her masterpieces. Centering on the obsessive romance that develops between Therese Belivet, a set designer whose day job is w...
Mariticide—or at least the appearance of it—provides the drama for Highsmith’s third novel, 1954’s The Blunderer. Meek and bumbling lawyer and amateur writer Walter Stackhouse has had it with his high maintenance wife Clara after a decade of matrimony filled with her neuroses and demands. Triggered by Clara’s insinuation that he’s having an affair ...
Perhaps the most famous of Highsmith’s novels, The Talented Mr. Ripley introduced readers to the charming but psychopathic killer Tom Ripley, a character so compelling that Highsmith wrote four other novels about him. The novel begins when Ripley, a scrappy young man resorting to scams to survive in NYC, fakes a friendship with Dickie Greenleaf tha...
Highsmith returned to familiar themes of marital infidelity, jealousy, lust, and violence with her fifth novel, Deep Water. Suburban couple Vic and Melinda Van Allen have long established that their marriage is devoid of love, but in order to avoid the scandal of divorce, they’ve come to an agreement that seems to work: Melinda can have as many aff...
A divorcée’s wandering eye sets off a murderous chain of events in Highsmith’s eighth novel, The Cry of the Owl. Following an acrimonious split with his ex-wife Nikki, Robert Forester moves to the suburbs of Pennsylvania, where he becomes secretly obsessed with Jenny, a neighbor whom he spies on from the kitchen window. What Robert doesn’t anticipa...
Highsmith employs romantic and destructive passion to fuel a messy love triangle that turns murderous. American con man Chester MacFarland and his wife Colette are traveling in Greece, when they meet an American expat named Rydal Keener. After MacFarland accidentally kills a policeman, the trio hide from the law in a high-stakes evasion across the ...
Highsmith took inspiration from fan mail from a prison inmate who had read her novel Deep Water and John Bartlow Martin’s 1954 account of his time in the Michigan State Prison, Break Down the Walls to critique the prison industrial complex for her tenth novel, 1964’s The Glass Cell. In the book, Highsmith shows the far-reaching consequences of wron...
The sequel novel to Highsmith’s wildly popular The Talented Mr. Ripley and the second novel in her “Ripliad” series about Tom Ripley, focuses on the wily and sinister Ripley, who is now living a luxurious new life in France with his new wife Heloise, thanks to Dickie’s fortune, which Ripley bequeathed to himself by forging Dickie’s will. This forge...
In the third installment of Highsmith’s series about Tom Ripley, the murderous grifter’s affluent lifestyle in France is interrupted by a request for a hit job from a former associate in America. As much as Ripley tries to stay out of the fray, he finds himself drawn back into subterfuge and fatal violence after a petty act of revenge results in a ...
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Jul 29, 2024 · From The Idea of You to It Ends With Us, a look at the recent and upcoming book adaptations hitting the screen.
- Lexy Perez
Mar 5, 2024 · Whether you want to see one of your favorite books brought to life on screen or you’d rather watch the movie than read a whole novel (it’s OK, we’ve all done it), check out these 15 flicks to get your literary fix.
May 25, 2023 · Her body of work consists of 22 novels and numerous short stories while the film adaptations of her works are more than 20, some of them featuring respected directors behind the cameras and notable cast. Highsmith's proverbial resentment for humanity is well-documented.
Aug 16, 2024 · We’ve rounded up 45 of the greatest books made into movies, from classic works of fiction, mystery books and thrillers to fantasy books, romance novels and teen reads. The books are...
