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Stories Set in Alabama
From Harper Lee's Monroeville to rocket-city Huntsville, Alabama mixes porch-swing gothic with space-age ambition. Its stories run from civil-rights landmarks to Friday-night-lights towns you can open on the map.
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Browse 98 books, 74 movies, 3 TV shows and 2 games set in Alabama.
Big Fish
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years he remains a huge mystery to his son William. Now to get to know the real man Will begins…
To Kill a Mockingbird
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in…
To Kill a Mockingbird
Scout Finch 6 and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb Alabama spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor Boo Radley. When Atticus their widowed…
Just Mercy
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving…
Fried Green Tomatoes
Amidst her own personality crisis southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison two young women who experienced hardships and love in…
Selma
"Selma" as in Alabama the place where segregation in the South was at its worst leading to a march that ended in violence forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of…
My Cousin Vinny
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his…
Roald Dahl's The Witches
In late 1967 a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches she…
The Wonder Years
The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and…
Gerald's Game
When her husband's sex game goes wrong Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions dark secrets and a dire choice.
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