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Stories Set in Memphis
Blues clubs, barbecue smoke and the King's echo: Memphis is where American music was recorded into being. Poverty and soul made it drama-ready long before the cameras arrived. Walk the Line and The Blind Side both start here. Open Memphis on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Memphis on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Memphis
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Browse 29 books, 41 movies, 3 TV shows and 1 game set in Memphis.
The Blind Side
The story of Michael Oher a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
Walk the Line
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl…
The Firm
At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife,…
The Firm
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him he is totally…
The Rainmaker
When Rudy Baylor a young attorney with no clients goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate…
Before We Were Yours
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy…
Mystery Train
In Memphis Tennessee over the course of a single night the Arcade Hotel run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian…
The Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal Lecter. The ultimate villain of modern fiction. Read the five-million-copy bestseller that scared the world silent. The Silence of the Lambs. A young FBI trainee. An evil genius locked away for unspeakable…
Hustle & Flow
With help from his friends a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
The Firm
Adaptation for younger readers. Mitch McDeere, a Harvard Law graduate, becomes suspicious of his Memphis tax firm when mysterious deaths, obsessive office security, and the Chicago mob figure into its operations.
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