The 2010 film The Switch starring Jennifer Aniston, is based on a screenplay inspired by which short story by Jeffrey Eugenides?
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The Switch (2010 film) The Switch is a 2010 American comedy-drama film directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck. Based on a screenplay written by Allan Loeb, the film, formerly titled "The Baster", was inspired by the short story "Baster" by Jeffrey Eugenides, originally published in "The New Yorker" in 1996. The film stars Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman and child actor Thomas Robinson. Patrick Wilson, Juliette Lewis, and Jeff Goldblum appear in key supporting roles.
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Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress, producer, and businesswoman. She is the daughter of Greek-born actor John Aniston and American actress Nancy Dow. Aniston gained worldwide recognition for portraying Rachel Green on the television sitcom "Friends" (1994–2004), a role which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. The character was widely popular during the airing of the series and was later recognized as one of the 100 greatest female characters in United States television.
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All Flowers in Time "All Flowers in Time" is a 2010 short surrealist horror film directed by Jonathan Caouette. The plot centers on a television signal that possesses young children, making them believe they can transform into other people or monsters. The film stars Chloë Sevigny and has been screened at several film festivals as of Fall 2010. Although it shares a similar name, the film's title is not directly connected to the Jeff Buckley song, "All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun".
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Jolene (film) Jolene is a 2008 American drama film directed by Dan Ireland, based on the short story "Jolene: A Life" by E. L. Doctorow and inspired by Dolly Parton's song of the "same name". Jessica Chastain played the title character in her film debut. It premiered on 13 June 2008 at the Seattle International Film Festival and was later released in the United States on 29 October 2010.
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The Gernsback Continuum "The Gernsback Continuum" is a 1981 science fiction short story by American-Canadian author William Gibson, originally published in the anthology "Universe 11" edited by Terry Carr. It was later reprinted in Gibson's collection "Burning Chrome", and in "Mirrorshades", edited by Bruce Sterling. With some similarity to Gibson's later appraisal of Singapore for "Wired" magazine in "Disneyland with the Death Penalty", as much essay as fiction, it depicts the encounters of an American photographer with the period futuristic architecture of the American 1930s when he is assigned to document it for fictional London publishers Barris-Watford, and the gradual incursion of its cinematic future visions into his world. The "Gernsback" of the title alludes to Hugo Gernsback, the pioneer of early 20th century American pulp magazine science fiction.
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Edward P. Jones Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel "The Known World" received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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Gerald (film) Gerald is a 2010 American comedy-drama film written, produced and edited by Tim Gallagher, directed by Marc Clebanoff (director of "Break"), and stars Louis Mandylor and Mackenzie Firgens with Deborah Theaker and Mickey Rooney. The main character, Gerald, was inspired by "Forrest Gump", Seymour Krelborn of "Little Shop of Horrors" and Mr. Gallagher's personal experience with mentally challenged individuals.
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The Grey (film) The Grey is a 2011 British-American survival thriller film co-written, produced and directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo and Dermot Mulroney. It is based on the short story
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Veronika Decides to Die (film) Veronika Decides to Die is a 2009 psychological drama film directed by Emily Young and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker, Melissa Leo, David Thewlis and Erika Christensen. The film is written by Larry Gross and Roberta Hanley and is adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Paulo Coelho.
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Dear John (2010 film) Dear John is a 2010 American romantic drama-war film starring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum. It was made by Screen Gems and was released theatrically in North America on February 5, 2010. The film was directed by Lasse Hallström, and it is an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' 2006 novel of the same name. It follows the life of a soldier (Channing Tatum) after he falls in love with a young woman (Amanda Seyfried). They decide to exchange letters to each other after he is deployed to the war. The movie was filmed in 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Service Call "Service Call" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in "Science Fiction Stories", July 1955.
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The Descendants The Descendants is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne. The screenplay by Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash is based on the novel of the same name by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Beau Bridges, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, and Robert Forster, and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures in the United States on November 18, 2011 after being screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Graveyard Shift (1990 film) Graveyard Shift is a 1990 American horror film directed by Ralph S. Singleton, written by John Esposito and based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King which was first published in the 1970 issue of "Cavalier" magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection "Night Shift". The movie was released in October 1990.
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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King, from his 1982 collection "Different Seasons", subtitled "Hope Springs Eternal". It is loosely based on the Leo Tolstoy short story "God Sees the Truth, But Waits". It was adapted for the screen in 1994 as "The Shawshank Redemption", which was nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1994, including Best Picture. In 2009, it was adapted for the stage as the play "The Shawshank Redemption".
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Jennifer Garner Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an American actress. Her breakthrough film debut was in the comedy "Dude, Where's My Car" (2000). Following a supporting role in "Pearl Harbor" (2001), Garner gained recognition for her performance as CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy-action thriller "Alias", which aired from 2001 to 2006. For her work on the series, she won a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award and received four Emmy Award nominations.
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Switchmas Switchmas (earlier titles Ira Finkelstein's Christmas and All I Want Is Christmas) is an American musical comedy film directed by Sue Corcoran. It tells the story of a Christmas obsessed Jewish boy on his way to sunny Florida who figures out how to get the Christmas of his dreams by trading airline tickets and places with another boy on his way to snowy Christmastown, Washington. This film also features CGI scenes based on Ira's Christmas dreams.
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Andrew Sean Greer Andrew Sean Greer (born November 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer.
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Herbert West Herbert West is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft for his short story "Herbert West—Reanimator", first published in 1922. There have been several film adaptations of the story including Herbert West as played by Jeffrey Combs in the "Re-Animator (film series)" which include the 1985 "Re-Animator" film and its two sequels, "Bride of Re-Animator" and "Beyond Re-Animator".
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Destination Moon (short story) "Destination Moon" is a novella by science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein, first published in the September 1950 issue of "Short Stories" magazine; it is an adaptation of Heinlein's own screenplay for the 1950 feature film "Destination Moon".
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The Victim (2011 film) The Victim is a 2011 American horror film directed, written and starring Michael Biehn, produced by and co-starring Jennifer Blanc.
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Bleak Night Bleak Night (; lit. "The Lookout") is a 2010 South Korean coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Yoon Sung-hyun. The film is about a father's search for answers following his son's death, and the shifting dynamics at play among three high-school friends. A Korean Academy of Film Arts graduation project by Yoon Sung-hyun, it received rave reviews and won several Best New Actor awards for Lee Je-hoon, as well as Best New Director for Yoon at the Grand Bell Awards and Busan Film Critics Awards.
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The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five sisters, the Lisbon girls. The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who struggle to find an explanation for the Lisbons' deaths. The book's first chapter appeared in "The Paris Review" in 1990, and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. Eugenides told "3am Magazine": "I think that if my name hadn't been Eugenides, people wouldn't have called the narrator a Greek chorus". The novel was adapted into a 1999 movie by director Sofia Coppola.