Lindsay Parker played the role of Carrie in a 1987 film based on a book by what author?
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Lindsay Parker Lindsay Parker (born March 30, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress who got her start as Little Girl on an episode of "MacGyver". She appeared in the film "Shocker" three years later, and played Kirstie Alley's daughter Melissa in the 1987 film "Infidelity". She provided the voice of Corey in "Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue" and also played Carrie in the 1987 film "Flowers in the Attic". She remained active in acting up until 2007.
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Flowers in the Attic Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series, and was followed by "Petals on the Wind", "If There Be Thorns", "Seeds of Yesterday", and "Garden of Shadows". The novel is written in the first-person, from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger. It was twice adapted into films in 1987 and 2014. The book was extremely popular, selling over forty million copies world-wide.
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The Witches of Eastwick (film) The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 American comedy-fantasy film based on John Updike's novel "The Witches of Eastwick". Directed by George Miller, the film stars Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horne, alongside Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon as the eponymous witches.
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Fay Baker Fay Baker (born Fay Schwager; January 31, 1917 – December 8, 1987) was an American stage, film and television actress, and a successful author under the pen name Beth Holmes. Her novel, "The Whipping Boy", made the "Los Angeles Times" bestseller list in 1978. She also published, under her own name, "My Darling, Darling Doctors".
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Charlotte's Web (1973 film) Charlotte's Web is a 1973 American animated musical drama film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Sagittarius Productions and based upon the 1952 children's book of the same name by E. B. White. The film, like the book, is about a pig named Wilbur who befriends an intelligent spider named Charlotte who saves him from being slaughtered. Released to theaters by Paramount Pictures, "Charlotte's Web" features a song score of music and lyrics written by the Sherman Brothers, who had previously written music for family films like "Mary Poppins" (1964), "The Jungle Book" (1967), and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968). It is the first of only three Hanna-Barbera features not to be based upon one of their famous television cartoons, "Heidi's Song" (1982) and "Once Upon a Forest" (1993) being the other two.
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Obernewtyn (novel) Obernewtyn is the first novel in the "Obernewtyn Chronicles" series by Australian author Isobelle Carmody. Carmody began writing it at the age of fourteen, and reworked the novel through high school and university. Much of the inspiration for the protagonist, Elspeth Gordie, comes from her own life experiences. It was published by Penguin Books in Australia in 1988 and shortlisted for the in the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards.
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Carrie White Carrietta N. "Carrie" White is the title character and protagonist of Stephen King's novel "Carrie" who is the older half-sister of Rachel Lang.
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Carrie Pilby (film) Carrie Pilby is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Susan Johnson and written by Kara Holden and Dean Craig, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Caren Lissner. The film stars Bel Powley, Nathan Lane, Gabriel Byrne, Jason Ritter, William Moseley, Vanessa Bayer, and Colin O'Donoghue. Principal photography began on December 14, 2015 in New York City.
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Anastasia's Chosen Career Anastasia's Chosen Career (1987) is a young-adult novel by Lois Lowry. It is the seventh part of a series of books that Lowry wrote about Anastasia and her younger brother Sam.
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The Stepford Children The Stepford Children is a 1987 American made-for-television science fiction-thriller film inspired by the Ira Levin novel "The Stepford Wives". It was directed by Alan J. Levi with a screenplay by Bill Bleich and starring Barbara Eden, Don Murray, Tammy Lauren, Randall Batinkoff and Pat Corley. It is the second in a series of sequels inspired by the 1972 novel and the original 1975 film "The Stepford Wives".
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Christine (novel) Christine is a horror novel written by Stephen King, published in 1983. It tells the story of a vintage automobile apparently possessed by supernatural forces. A film adaptation, directed by John Carpenter, was released in the same year; this adaptation starred Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul and Harry Dean Stanton. In April 2013, PS Publishing released "Christine" in a limited 30th Anniversary Edition.
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Judge Dave and the Rainbow People Judge Dave and the Rainbow People is a book by US Federal Judge David B. Sentelle about his involvement with the 1987 annual Rainbow Gathering.
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Lipstick Jungle (novel) Lipstick Jungle is a novel written by New York writer and socialite Candace Bushnell, that weaves the stories of Nico Reilly, Wendy Healy, and Victory Ford, who are numbers 8, 12, and 17 on the "New York Post's" list of New York's 50 Most Powerful Women. The premise appears to tread similar ground to Bushnell's famed "Sex and the City," following the lives of three New York career women; however, in this book the women are a little older, richer, and more powerful.
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Damon's Law Damon's Law (also known as The Rutherford County Line) is a 1987 American action film that follows the events and criminal cases that Sheriff Damon Huskey encounters while working for Rutherford County, North Carolina. Based on actual events, the film characterizes how Huskey, played by Earl Owensby, handles each case as well in some instances how they change his life forever.
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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.
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Less Than Zero (film) Less Than Zero is a 1987 American drama film very loosely based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel of the same name. The film stars Andrew McCarthy as Clay, a college freshman returning home for Christmas to spend time with his ex-girlfriend Blair (Jami Gertz) and his friend Julian (Robert Downey, Jr.), who is also a drug addict. The film presents a look at the culture of wealthy, decadent youth in Los Angeles.
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Time Without Clocks Time Without Clocks is a 1962 autobiographical novel by Joan Lindsay. The novel recounts Lindsay's early years married to prolific Australian artist Daryl Lindsay. The novel was published in 1962 by F.W. Cheshire, and later re-published by Penguin Books.
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Mr. North Mr. North is a 1988 American comedy-drama film starring Anthony Edwards, based on the 1973 novel "Theophilus North" by Thornton Wilder.
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Carrie's War (1974 TV serial) Carrie's War was an adaptation of Nina Bawden's book "Carrie's War", broadcast from 28 January 1974 to 25 February 1974 on BBC1 in five, 30-minute episodes.
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Carrie (1976 film) Carrie is a 1976 American supernatural horror film based on Stephen King's 1974 epistolary novel of the same name. The film was directed by Brian De Palma and produced by Paul Monash, with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen.
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Wideacre Wideacre is a 1987 historical novel by Philippa Gregory. This novel is Gregory's debut, and the first in the "Wideacre" trilogy that includes "The Favored Child" (1989) and "Meridon" (1990). Set in the second half of the 18th century, it follows Beatrice Lacey's destructive lifelong attempts to gain control of the Wideacre estate.
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The Princess Bride (film) The Princess Bride is a 1987 American romantic fantasy adventure comedy-drama film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner, and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant and Christopher Guest. Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel of the same name, it tells the story of a farmhand named Westley, accompanied by befriended companions along the way, who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck. The story is presented in the film as a book being read by a grandfather (Peter Falk) to his sick grandson (Fred Savage), thus effectively preserving the novel's narrative style.