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There’s an adaptation out there for every taste.

It starred Ewan McGregor, blending elements of fantasy and tall tales, filmed on location in Alabama.

Movies Based on Southern Books

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Directed by Benh Zeitlin from a screenplay by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar.

Set in North Carolina during the Civil War.

After that, the film adaptation starred Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Danny Gloverdirected by Steven Spielberg.

A Walk to Remember

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It stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.

Set in small-town North Carolina, Nick Cassavetes directs the film, starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling.

Set in South Carolina in the 1960s, it stars Queen Latifah and Dakota Fanning.

Because of Winn-Dixie

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Set in New York and South Carolina.

It’s a bildungsroman set in Florida that stars Halle Berry as the heroine Janie Crawford.

Suzan-Lori Parks, Misan Sagay, and Bobby Smith, Jr wrote the screenplay.

Big Fish

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The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck, who played Atticus Finch.

Set in small-town Alabama.

It stars Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld.

Beasts of the Southern Wild

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An earlier movie adaptation was a 1969 film starring John Wayne and Kim Darby.

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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The Color Purple by Alice Walker

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Benjamin Button

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Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg

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Forrest Gump

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The Grass Harp

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Mudbound

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No Country for Old Men

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The Notebook

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Secret Life of Bees

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Steel Magnolias

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The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Arkansas: True Grit by Charles Portis

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Delia Owens

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