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Movies Based on Books

A test by Oren Lahav.

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Test yourself! See if you can name all these blockbuster movies that were based on novels! If you're a big movie or book fan, you'll know your stuff.

This movie stars Bruce Willis in an adaptation of Nothing Lasts Forever, a thriller by Roderick Thorp.

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	Die Hard
	Pulp Fiction
	Rocky
	The Last Boy Scout

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This movie stars Harrison Ford and is based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

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	Star Wars (Episode IV)
	Apocalypse Now
	Blade Runner
	The Intruders

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This movie is an adaptation of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the biography of T.E. Lawrence. It stars Peter O'Toole.

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	The Sandpiper
	Caligula
	Lawrence of Arabia
	Pillars of Life

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Although the plots of the film and novel are fairly different, this film which combines animation with live action is based on a mystery novel by Gary Wolf. Both centre around a cartoon animal.

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	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
	The Bugs Bunny Show
	Space Jam
	The Real World

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This film is based on the first novel in a trilogy in 5 parts. It stars Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent.

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	Arthur
	Pride
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
	Lord of the Rings

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This film is based on a book by the same name written by one Charles Webb. It also introduced to the world an actor named Dustin Hoffman.

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	The Graduate
	Rain Man
	Tootsie
	Marathon Man

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This movie based on what's arguably John Girsham's best book stars Tom Cruise.

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	The Runaway Jury
	The Client
	The Lawyer
	The Firm

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This Academy Award winning 1968 film starring Cliff Robertson is an adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

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