Buzz Gift Guide: Mommy Dearest

BuzzSugar — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:24:30 PST

For perhaps the most important lady in your life, check out today's holiday gift guide for some sweet ideas that might be right up her alley this holiday season.

If you're looking for something to watch during future girls' nights with you mom, check out the Gilmore Girls complete series collection, which includes all 153 episodes of the show on a whopping 42 discs. Granted, the packaging is a little cheesy, but that's a small sacrifice for the chance to watch this memorable mom and daughter grow up together.

This summer's sweet romantic comedy Waitress stars Keri Russell as a woman who is none too pleased to find out about her pregnancy. By the end, however, she learns that motherhood might actually be just what she was waiting for.

If your mom is the reading type, check out these books that are not only completely worthwhile on their own but will also be adapted for film in the not-so-distant future. So when Revolutionary Road and The Memory Keeper's Daughter hit theaters, your mom will be totally in the know, thanks to you!

Does your mom have a tendency to wax nostalgic about classic film stars like Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant? Check out the Classic Comedies Collection which includes Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story and Stage Door, among others.

Book-to-Movie News of the Day: Die a Little and The Memory Keeper's Daughter

BuzzSugar — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:20:18 PDT

Another day, another couple film projects based on books. First, there's Die a Little, a crime thriller based on Megan Abbott's novel. The movie will star Jessica Biel and "explores how the lives of a schoolteacher and her LAPD detective brother are turned upside down by a mysterious woman." The story is set in 1954 but the movie will take place in present day.

I haven't read that one, but I have read The Memory Keeper's Daughter, a weepy dramatic book by Kim Edwards. This project, which will star Emily Watson and Dermot Mulroney, won't make it to the big screen, but will be a TV movie made for Lifetime. In the telepic, "Mulroney plays a doctor who delivers his own twin babies - one with Down's syndrome. In order to spare his wife heartache, he tells her the child with Down's died at birth. The doctor tells his nurse, played by Watson, to put the girl in an institution, but instead she raises the baby as her own."

Reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter, I could easily envision it turning into a film and figured it was just a matter of time. Now that they have Emily Watson on board, too, I'm intrigued to see this heartstrings-yanker brought to life.

Biel photo source
Watson photo source