Books Into Movies: September-October 2010

September Movie Releases:

It's Kind Of A Funny Story
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Release Date: September 24th
Based on: It's Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

Summary: A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
MPAA Rating: PG
Release Date: September 24th
Based on: The Guardians of Ha’Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky

Summary: The Owls of Ga’Hoole follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father’s epic stories of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion and yearns to hunt, fly and steal his father’s favor from his younger sibling. But Kludd’s jealousy has terrible consequences --- causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones. Now it’s up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave young owls. Together they soar across the sea and through the mist to find the Great Tree, home of the legendary Guardians --- Soren’s only hope of defeating the Pure ones and saving the owl kingdoms.

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October Movie Releases:

The Social Network
MPAA Rating: Not yet rated
Release Date: October 1st
Based on: The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich

Summary: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

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Let Me In
MPAA Rating: Not yet rated
Release Date: October 1st
Based on: Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Summary: Twelve-year-old Owen is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting revenge on his middle school tormentors and his evenings spying on the other inhabitants of his apartment complex. His only friend is his new neighbor Abby, an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father. A frail, troubled child about Owen's age, Abby emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Recognizing a fellow outcast, Owen opens up to her and before long, the two have formed a unique bond. When a string of grisly murders puts the town on high alert, Abby's father disappears, and the terrified girl is left to fend for herself. Still, she repeatedly rebuffs Owen's efforts to help her and her increasingly bizarre behavior leads the imaginative Owen to suspect she's hiding an unthinkable secret.

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Non-Book Related Movies I'm Dying To Watch:


I love dance movies and I'm interested in seeing if Christina Aguilera can act.


I LOVE anything with Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey, Jr.!


This animation looks adorable!


I love the whole concept and it seems funny. :)