Based on the book: For Better Or For Worse (the movie)

They're baaaack! Lisa Whelchel and Kim Fields, who co-starred on the sitcom The Facts of Life as Blair and Tootie, are teaming up in a new Hallmark Channel original movie called For Better Or For Worse.

The movie is based on a book of the same name written by author Diann Hunt.

For Better or for Worst, a romantic comedy, airs tonight, July 19 (9/8c)!

Will you be watching?


Amazon Book Description

She's a wedding coordinator. He's a divorce attorney. She begins marriages. He ends them. How could these two possibly find common ground?

Wendy Hartline is finally starting to settle into the single life. After a difficult season of grief following her husband's death, she's taken over the family business of coordinating memorable weddings. Life has become . . . comfortable.

Then the charming and incredibly frustrating Marco Amorini opens a legal practice--specializing in divorces--right next to her wedding chapel and stirs up everything.

Wendy learns that perhaps there is such a thing as second chances in this hilarious story of the pleasures and pains of new love in midlife.

Post by Rachel Hayes Hauck.

Watch Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972) via Hulu

This all-star musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale will delight children and adults alike. This magical and intoxicating version explores Alice’s dizzying adventures both faithfully and metaphorically as a coming of age story.

• Movie
• Aired on 04/22/1972
• Rating: Not Rated
• Run Time: 1 hr. 36 min.

Check Out "Hostage" (film) on Hulu.



Hostage, based on the book Hostage by Robert Crais, is available for free viewing via Hulu for a limited time. Adapted for film by Doug Richardson and directed by Florent-Emilio Siri, Hostage starred Bruce Willis as Jeff Talley, a former SWAT negotiator. Check it out for free while you can!

(click the triangle-in-circle button to play the movie from this page)

HOSTAGE (film)

Actors: Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Serena Scott Thomas, Jimmy Bennett
Rated: R
Run Time: 113 minutes
Studio: Lionsgate Miramax
Release Date: March 2005 (USA)
Adapted From: Hostage: A Novel, Robert Crais


FROM ROBERTCRAIS.COM: HOSTAGE

"Jeff Talley was a good husband, a fine father, and a front line negotiator with LAPD's SWAT unit. But the high-stress, unforgiving job took an irreparable toll on his psyche. Unable to talk down a despondent father before he murders his wife and son and takes his own life, Talley plummets into a downward spiral. His marriage ends, he resigns from SWAT, and he struggles to escape from his former life by taking the chief-of-police job in a sleepy, affluent bedroom community far from the chaos and crime of Los Angeles."


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HOSTAGE (2005) - Movie Trailer

Earlier this week, I noticed that Hulu has a new movie category called films based on books.  The image of a salty Mr. Willis called to me from the list. So I have decided to start with Hostage.

Hostage is a 2005 movie thriller starring Bruce Willis and directed by Florent-Emilio Siri. The film is based on Hostage: A Novel by Robert Crais (adapted for film by Doug Richardson).

Although I am almost positive that I must have seen the movie when it came out, I cannot remember it. [Is that a bad sign?] So I am considering it "new to me."

I picked up the book today. Have you read it?

ALEX CROSS - Movie Trailer [starring Tyler Perry]

Check out the trailer for the upcoming movie Alex Cross (due for release on October 19, 2012).

Based on Cross by James Patterson (Alex Cross novel #12), the crime thriller stars Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, and Rachel Nichols. 

Today, Cross was re-released with the movie tie-in cover of Alex Cross (its name was changed to Alex Cross).

I must confesss: I HAVE NEVER READ A JAMES PATTERSON NOVEL.

So, I am not super excited about it. I blame the movies Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. I couldn't get through them. The Silence Of The Lambs? Couldn't finish it. Not that they were bad ... at least the parts that I saw through my fingers.  Seven? Saw it. Liked it. Freaked me out.

I'm convinced that serial killer movies aren't for me. Curiously, television shows with serial killers don't bother me. Go figure.

I feel like I should read some Patterson books anyway. Does he have a good series that doesn't involve serial killers?

UPDATE (10/3/12): Goodreads has suckered me in with its book-movie cross-promotion. I signed up for the book giveaway and RSVP'd to the movie (showin' Tyler Perry some support). Who is  gonna hold my hand? SMH.

DYK about 84, Charing Cross Road?

Anne Bancroft stars in the movie adaptation of  the book, 84, Charing Cross Road. Her husband, Mel Brooks (also the movie's producer), purchased the rights to the book for her as an anniversary present. How cool is that?