Good Will Hunting
10 best books like Good Will Hunting (Matt Damon): Sleeping with the Enemy, Dead Poets Society, Forrest Gump, Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, American Beauty: The Shooting Script, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script, Juno: The Shooting Script, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay, Inception: The Shooting Script
| Author | Nancy Price |
| ISBN | 0425127923 |
4 ½ stars. Worthwhile read about a woman escaping a physically abusive husband. Fulfilling feeling at the end.
I saw the movie years ago. The book is better. One part of the movie annoyed me - stupid frustrating act of the mother. In the movie Martin visits the mother in a nursing home pretending...
| Author | N.H. Kleinbaum |
| ISBN | 0553282980 |
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! " Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free...
| Author | Winston Groom |
| ISBN | 0743453255 |
Форрест Гамп - наивный и доверчивый человек, сохранивший незамутнённый детский взгляд на мир, - рассказывает на страницах романа историю своей жизни....
| Author | Marc Norman |
| ISBN | 0786884851 |
For years I avoided Shakespeare in Love, mostly because I find Gwyneth Paltrow insufferable. I finally watched the film earlier this year, and over a decade after everyone else, I get why this film was such a big deal. It's beautiful and smart and funny and all of the best of what Hollywood aspires to be....
| Author | Peter Hedges |
| ISBN | 0671038540 |
Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is...
| Author | Alan Ball |
| ISBN | 1557044236 |
On a typical suburban street in a typical suburban town, there is an ordinary family living the American dream. But look closer. Lester Burnham's wife, Carolyn, regards him with contempt, his daughter, Jane, thinks he's a loser, and his boss is positioning him for the ax.
Captivated by Jane's...
| Author | Charlie Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1557046107 |
In this illuminating script book, Charlie Kaufman, the Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, shares the logistical challenges of writing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a fascinating interview.
Kaufman also provides commentary on...
| Author | Diablo Cody |
| ISBN | 1557048029 |
Meet Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), a confidently frank teenage girl who calls the shots with a nonchalant cool and an effortless attitude as she journeys through an emotional nine-month adventure into adulthood. Quick-witted and distinctively unique, Juno walks Dancing Elk High's halls to her own...
| Author | Quentin Tarantino |
| ISBN | 0786881046 |
Quentin Tarantino - director of "Reservoir Dogs" and writer of "True Romance" - won the Palme d'Or for best film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival for "Pulp Fiction, " his unique vision of the underworld, starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, and Harvey Keitel. Taking his...
| Author | Christopher J. Nolan |
| ISBN | 1608870154 |
Inception, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s seventh feature film, joins the epic scope of The Dark Knight with the narrative sophistication of Memento. The story of a group of thieves who specialize in invading the mind through one’s dreams, Inception explores the Nolan’s signature...
| Author | Frank Darabont |
| ISBN | 1557042462 |
This modern film classic, an extraordinary tale of hope and survival inside a maximum security prison, follows the complex twenty-year relationship between two convicts who have little in common—except friendship. Based on the novella Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King,...
| Author | Randall Wallace |
| ISBN | 0671522817 |
For love of country, for love of maiden, for love of freedom ... he became the hammer and scourge of England.
In one of history's darkest hours there arose from humble beginnings a man of courage and honor—the likes of whom the world may never see again. Amid the color, pageantry, and violence...
| Author | Andrew Neiderman |
| ISBN | 0671014102 |
DEFENDER OF THE DAMNED... When Kevin Taylor joins the Manhattan criminal law firm of John Milton and Associates, he's hit the big time. At last, he and his wife can enjoy the luxuries they've so desired-- a chauffeur-driven limo, a stunning home in the very building that Mr. Milton himself lives in. Little...
This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F.X. Toole, is the basis for the Oscar-winning motion picture starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. Breathing life into vivid,...
