November's Books to Film

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 5:52pm by muffy

The Box is a horror film based on the 1970 short story Button, Button by Richard Matheson, previously adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone.

Norma Lewis (Cameron Diaz) is a teacher at a private high school and her husband, Arthur (James Marsden), an engineer working at NASA are, by all accounts, an average couple living a normal life - until a mysterious man appears on their doorstep and presents a life-altering proposition and an impossible moral dilemma: the box.

Almost too bizarre to believe The Men Who Stare at Goats is based on Jon Ronson's (2004) comedic and eye-opening exploration of the government’s attempts to harness paranormal abilities to fight its wars.

Reporter Bob Wilton discovers a top-secret wing of the U.S. military when he accompanies an enigmatic Special Forces operator on a mind-boggling mission. Starring Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges.

And if you need ME to tell YOU about New Moon - the second installment of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga, then you should just skip it. Seriously! And if you are going, I hope you have tickets in hand already. (Opening Nov. 20th).

Rebecca Miller, a painter and actress before turning her hand to writing and directing, directs the adaptation of her debut novel The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (FFF, 2008).

When her stable public life is disrupted by her older husband's decision to retire to a community, 50-year old Pippa Lee begins to lose her grasp on reality. Embarking on a bittersweet journey of self-discovery, accompanied by a new, strange and soulful acquaintance, Pippa must now confront both her volatile past and the hidden resentment of her seemingly perfect life in order to find her true sense of self.

Previously, Rebecca Miller's feature film adaptation of her short-story collection Personal Velocity (2001) won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.