"entirety of the film. The film's title is a reference to the characters featured in J.M. Barrie's ""Peter Pan"" stories, who — like vampires — never grow old. According to Day, the central theme of ""The Lost Boys"", ""organised around loose allusions to Peter Pan"", is the tension surrounding the Emerson family and the world of contemporary adolescence. The film was originally set to be directed by Richard Donner and the screenplay, written by Janice Fischer and James Jeremias, was modelled on Donner's recent hit ""The Goonies"" (1985). In this way the film was envisioned as more of a juvenile"
"writing, widely regarded by those who have read it as some of his most intense, personal writing. Orson Scott Card has claimed that many elements of M. Night Shyamalan's ""The Sixth Sense"" were plagiarized from ""Lost Boys"", although he has said that enough had been changed that there was no point in suing. The 2007 Spanish movie ""The Orphanage"" has a very similar plot. The 1998 movie """" also has a very similar plot. Lost Boys (novel) Lost Boys (1992) is the first horror novel by American author Orson Scott Card. The novel, set in 1983, revolves around a game"
"in 2000. In the film's sequel, ""Cry Little Sister"" was covered by a Seattle-based rock band, Aiden. The soundtrack was first released on LP and cassette in 1987 by Atlantic Records, then CD in 1990. The Lost Boys The Lost Boys is a 1987 American horror comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes. The film is about two brothers who move to California and end up fighting a gang of young vampires. The title is a reference to the"
"Lost Boys (novel) Lost Boys (1992) is the first horror novel by American author Orson Scott Card. The novel, set in 1983, revolves around a game programmer and his family. His claim to fame is a fictional Atari computer game called ""Hacker Snack"". Step Fletcher, a devout Mormon, moves his pregnant wife DeAnne and their three children (Stevie, Robbie and Elizabeth, respectively seven, four and two years old) from Indiana to Steuben, North Carolina so he can start a new job as a technical writer. Fletcher must deal with several unpleasant situations. His manager, Dicky Northranger, is a greedy, petty"
"the ""New York Times"" enjoyed the film: Roger Ebert of the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" gave it two and a half stars out of four and had this to say: Orphans (1987 film) Orphans is a 1987 American drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula. It was written by Lyle Kessler, based on his play of the same name. Brothers Treat (Matthew Modine) and Philip (Kevin Anderson) have lived alone since they were kids when a small-time criminal enters their lives. Living without a father, the orphaned brothers subsist off the proceeds of petty theft in a run-down North Philadelphia row house."
"The Lost Boys (franchise) The Lost Boys is a multimedia franchise about vampires. The original ""The Lost Boys"" was released in 1987 and starred Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes. A direct-to-DVD sequel, """", was released in 2008. Corey Feldman returned as Edgar Frog, with a cameo by Corey Haim as Sam Emerson. Kiefer Sutherland's half-brother Angus Sutherland plays the lead vampire. A third film entitled """", with Feldman serving as an executive producer in addition to playing Edgar Frog, and Newlander returning as Alan"
"and son are killed. Gillian wakes to find that she too has been kidnapped, her kidnapper Childermass (who is revealed to be her father) has her alone in a room. She grabs a winter coat and drowns him mercilessly in revenge for his role in the death of Peter and Robin. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 1978. Farris wrote the screenplay, Brian De Palma directed and Kirk Douglas and Amy Irving starred. In April 2008 a remake of the film was announced by Fox 2000, to be written by Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman. Farris stated"
"as their guardians. Barrie told the boys after her death that she had been engaged to him, but Jack and Peter later expressed scepticism of this report. Her son Peter was the publisher of her niece Daphne du Maurier's book about their grandfather, ""The Young George du Maurier, letters 1860–1867"" (1951). In the 1978 BBC mini-series ""The Lost Boys"", she was portrayed by Ann Bell. She was played by Kate Winslet in the 2004 movie ""Finding Neverland"", and was portrayed by Laura Michelle Kelly in the Broadway-musical adaptation of the same name, which ran until the 21st of August, 2016."
"however, as well as nominations for the 1984 Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actress. Further, the movie earned other award nominations for costume design and cinematography. The 2005 independent drama film ""The Californians"" is an updated adaptation of the story. The Bostonians The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in ""The Century Magazine"" in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty,"
"Where Are the Children? Where Are the Children? is a 1986 film based on the novel of the same name by Mary Higgins Clark. On her birthday, San Francisco resident Nancy Harmon's two kids Peter and Lisa disappear, later to be found dead. The police wrongly accuse a devastated Nancy of being the killer. Nancy is found guilty and sentenced to the gas chamber, but her attorney manages to get her conviction overturned. Much to the District Attorney's dismay, Nancy can't be put back on trial because key witness Rob Legler has left the country. And Nancy's husband, college professor"
"that Ness wrote for the book was a more trustworthy source and only included the real events that Ness experienced during his career. Ness's manuscript is housed in the archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. The book was adapted in multiple media and inspired many additional works. The best-known eponymous adaptations include the 1959 TV series ""The Untouchables"" starring Robert Stack as Ness and narrated by Walter Winchell, the 1987 film ""The Untouchables"" by Brian De Palma starring Kevin Costner as Ness and featuring Sean Connery and Robert De Niro, and the short-lived 1993 TV series"
"Orphans (1987 film) Orphans is a 1987 American drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula. It was written by Lyle Kessler, based on his play of the same name. Brothers Treat (Matthew Modine) and Philip (Kevin Anderson) have lived alone since they were kids when a small-time criminal enters their lives. Living without a father, the orphaned brothers subsist off the proceeds of petty theft in a run-down North Philadelphia row house. One night he kidnaps an enigmatic rich man, played by Albert Finney, who becomes the kind of father figure the boys have always longed for. Vincent Canby of"
"current and early avant garde directors. The program was the most diverse film exhibition held in the United States to date, and was the Museum's first major undertaking in film. The Cinémathèque's closing is noted in Truffaut's ""Stolen Kisses"". The Cinémathèque also appears in the Paul Auster novel ""The Book of Illusions"" and the Harvey Danger song ""Private Helicopter."" The Cinématèque and the events surrounding the dismissal of Henri Langlois in 1968 features heavily in Gilbert Adair's Novel ""The Holy Innocents"" also known as ""The Dreamers"" and in its film adaptation by Bernardo Bertolucci. Cinémathèque Française The Cinémathèque Française ()"
"currently out of print. The Blues Brothers (novel) The Blues Brothers is a book written by Crawdaddy! reporter Miami Mitch (Glazer) and published in 1980. The novel was based on the original version of ""The Blues Brothers"" screenplay written by Dan Aykroyd and John Landis. However, the original script that was used for the basis of the novel evolved so dramatically into what was used in the film that the two works only scantly resemble each other. The book contains eight glossy pages of black-and-white stills from the film, two per page. Scene breaks are marked by two pairs of"
"The Borrowers (1997 film) The Borrowers is a 1997 British–American live-action fantasy comedy film loosely based on the children's novel ""The Borrowers"" by author Mary Norton and starring John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams, Hugh Laurie and Bradley Pierce. In 1998, it was nominated for Best British Film in the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards, but lost to Gary Oldman's film ""Nil by Mouth"". The film also picked up another two nominations and one win in awards. Some of the film's scenes were shot on location in the village of Theale, near Reading, Berkshire, where all"
"Forest had indicated she was working on a successor to ""Run Away Home"", but no manuscript was found among her papers after her death in 2003. Forest also wrote ""The Player's Boy"" (1970) and ""The Players and the Rebels"" (1971), which concern themselves with the ancestors of the Marlows in Shakespeare's time. ""The Thursday Kidnapping"" (1963) was the only book by Antonia Forest not about the Marlows and the only one to be published in the U.S. It was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject."
"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"". Laura and Steven Harding (Barbara Eden and Don Murray) move with their children to the town of Stepford, Connecticut where Steven had lived with his first wife who had"
"Crystal Boys Crystal Boys (孽子, pinyin: ""Nièzǐ"", ""sons of sin"") is a novel written by author Pai Hsien-yung and first published in 1983 in Taiwan. In 1988, this novel went into circulation in China; its French and English translations were published in 1985 and 1989. A translation into German (""Treffpunkt Lotussee"") appeared in 1995. ""Nièzǐ"" means literally ""sinful sons"" or ""sons of sin"", but it may also be an allusion to a passage in Mencius in which ""friendless officials and concubine's sons"" (孤臣孽子) reach positions of power because they have learned to live with a dangerous status. A movie called"
"as a companion to Bennett's 1983 television play about Guy Burgess, ""An Englishman Abroad"". ""Blunt: The Fourth Man"" is a 1985 film starring Ian Richardson, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Williams, and Rosie Kerslake, covering the events of 1951 when Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean went missing. ""The Untouchable"", a 1997 novel by John Banville, is a roman à clef based largely on the life and character of Anthony Blunt; the novel's protagonist, Victor Maskell, is a loosely disguised Blunt, although some elements of the character are based on Louis MacNeice. ""I.M. Anthony Blunt"" is a poem by Gavin Ewart, cleverly attempting"
"was adapted in 1988 as the Merchant Ivory Productions film starring Shashi Kapoor, Pierce Brosnan, Bijaya Jena, Saeed Jaffrey, Rajesh Vivek and Dalip Tahil. The Deceivers The Deceivers is a 1952 novel by John Masters on the Thuggee movement in India during British imperial rule. The story shows how British officer and colonial administrator William Savage comes to know about the thuggee cult, infiltrates their society, learns their ways and code of communication, and destroys them by capturing or killing their key leaders. During his travels with the thuggee he almost falls prey to the cult's ways as he comes"
"""Bicycle Thieves"" (1948) for which he also wrote the English language subtitles. Among his U.S. filmwriting credits are ""The Lusty Men"" (1952, directed by Nicholas Ray) and the film adaptation of the Maxwell Anderson/Kurt Weill musical ""Lost in the Stars"" (1974). His credits as a television scriptwriter included scripts for American series ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"", ""The Twilight Zone"", ""Nero Wolfe"" and ""Mannix"". Alfred Hayes (writer) Alfred Hayes (18 April 1911 – 14 August 1985) was a British-born screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States. His well-known poem about ""Joe Hill"" (""""I dreamed I"
"for 1986. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and Nebula Award for Best Novel for 1986. In 1997, a film adaptation starring Kevin Costner and Will Patton was adapted from the novel. Despite the post-apocalyptic scenario and several action sequences, the book is largely about civilization and symbols. Each of the three sections deals with a different symbol. The first is the Postman himself, Gordon Krantz, who takes the uniform solely for warmth after he loses everything but his sleeping clothes. He wanders without establishing himself anywhere and performs scenes from William Shakespeare plays for"
"Jamison Newlander Jamison Newlander (born April 2, 1970) is an American actor who attended New York University. He starred in the 1987 horror film ""The Lost Boys"", playing Alan Frog a vampire hunter. Newlander's best known for his role as Alan Frog a vampire hunter in the 1987 film ""The Lost Boys"". He also played the part of Anthony in the 1988 remake of ""The Blob"". In 2003, Newlander wrote, directed and starred in an independent film titled ""Rooster"". In 2008 he was to reprise his role as Alan Frog along with Corey Feldman as Edgar Frog in """". However,"
"released. Although not as critically acclaimed as the novel, the movie was a box-office hit and was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Jimmy Buffett and Michael Utley wrote a song titled ""Prince of Tides"" for Buffett's 16th studio album ""Hot Water"", released in June 1988. The song retells the story of the book, and starts and finishes with Jimmy Buffett reading passages from the book. The song is dedicated: ""Pat Conroy, Doc Pomus and the people of Dafuskie Island have already said it all. I am thankful for such inspiration."" The Prince of Tides (novel) The Prince"
"It was released in paperback by Berkley Publishing and is 220 pages long. The CW and Rob Thomas are developing a Lost Boys TV series that will be set over 70 years, each season chronicling a decade starting with season 1 set in 1967 in San Francisco during the summer of love. The score for the original film was composed by Thomas Newman. The theme song, ""Cry Little Sister"", was originally recorded by Gerard McMahon (under his pseudonym Gerard McMann) for the soundtrack. In the film's sequel, ""Cry Little Sister"" was covered by a Seattle-based rock band, Aiden. Lou Gramm,"
"The Runaways (novel) The Runaways is a children's novel by the English author Ruth Thomas, published by Hutchinson in 1987. It features eleven-year-old Julia and Nathan who find ""an enormous sum of money"", do not report it, and flee the city when they are threatened with punishment. Opening in the East End of London where Thomas was a primary school teacher, the story moves to places including Brighton and Exmoor. Thomas and ""The Runaways"" won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. It drew critical acclaim, with ""The Guardian"" declaring"
"The Blues Brothers (novel) The Blues Brothers is a book written by Crawdaddy! reporter Miami Mitch (Glazer) and published in 1980. The novel was based on the original version of ""The Blues Brothers"" screenplay written by Dan Aykroyd and John Landis. However, the original script that was used for the basis of the novel evolved so dramatically into what was used in the film that the two works only scantly resemble each other. The book contains eight glossy pages of black-and-white stills from the film, two per page. Scene breaks are marked by two pairs of sunglasses. This title is"
"this drama so disturbing."" The film was released on DVD on December 16, 2003 from Lionsgate. Shattered Dreams (film) Shattered Dreams is a 1990 American made-for-television drama film directed by Robert Iscove, based on the 1987 book, ""Shatteted Dreams: the Charlotte Fedders Story"" by Charlotte Fedders. The film stars Lindsay Wagner and Michael Nouri. The film is a part of the ""Moment of Truth"" franchise and premiered on Sunday, May 13, 1990 on CBS. Charlotte O'Donnell and John Fedders meet at Catholic University where John is in law school, and Charlotte attends nursing school. John invites Charlotte and her friends"
"childhood is repeatedly proved to have contained great affection, friends, fun and even light reading."" ""Source: Library of Congress"" ""Father and Son"" partially inspired the 1988 novel ""Oscar and Lucinda"" by Peter Carey, that won the Booker Prize the same year, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. The book was the inspiration for Dennis Potter's 1976 television drama ""Where Adam Stood"", starring Alan Badel as Philip Gosse. Father and Son (book) Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled ""a study of two temperaments."" Edmund had previously published a biography of his"
"of their Cult Classics Movie Figures. Michael also received a figure. The Lost Boys (franchise) The Lost Boys is a multimedia franchise about vampires. The original ""The Lost Boys"" was released in 1987 and starred Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes. A direct-to-DVD sequel, """", was released in 2008. Corey Feldman returned as Edgar Frog, with a cameo by Corey Haim as Sam Emerson. Kiefer Sutherland's half-brother Angus Sutherland plays the lead vampire. A third film entitled """", with Feldman serving as an executive producer"
"Secret"" (1990), ""Guilty"" (1993), ""The Paper Bag Baby"" (1993) and ""Hideaway"" (1994). Ruth Thomas (children's writer) Ruth Thomas (4 January 1927 – 25 August 2011) was an English author of children's fiction. For her first novel, ""The Runaways"", she won the 1988 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, an annual book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. Thomas was born in Wellington, Somerset, England, to two primary school teachers. Her books draw on her own experiences as a primary school teacher, at first in East London; during the 1980s in Kensal Green, north west London. Books include ""The Runaways"""
"in 1990, under the original film's American title (""The Little Kidnappers""). Starring Charlton Heston in the role of Granddaddy, the film was written by Coralee Elliott Testar and shot entirely on location in Nova Scotia. The Kidnappers The Kidnappers (US: The Little Kidnappers) is a 1953 British film, directed by Philip Leacock and written by Neil Paterson. In the early 1900s, two young orphaned brothers, eight year old Harry (Jon Whiteley) and five year old Davy Mackenzie (Vincent Winter) are sent to live in a Scottish settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada, with their stern Grandfather (Macrae) and Grandmother (Anderson) after"
"called it 'a landmark in television drama'. The BBC published the full scripts when the series was repeated in 1980, ""The Spectator"" calling them 'a priceless addition to a corpus of literature of coherent television drama.' The Lost Boys (TV series) The Lost Boys is a 1978 docudrama mini-series produced by the BBC, written by Andrew Birkin, and directed by Rodney Bennett. It is about the relationship between Peter Pan creator J. M. Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies boys. Novelist and playwright James Barrie (Ian Holm) meets the two oldest Davies boys, George and Jack, during outings with their nurse"