When they're not saving the world, solving a crime or running to the airport in the rain, movie characters also do regular human stuff as well.
They eat sandwiches, mention other movies and read a whole load of books. In case you're interested in reading the same book as your favourite fictional character, we've assembled a list of the 30 most memorable movie/book match-ups.
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A Fish Called Wanda
Character: Otto West (Kevin Kline)
Book:Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Apocalypse Now
Character: Walter E Kurtz
Book:The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
Bad Teacher
Character: Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz)
Book:To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Donnie Darko
Character: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)
Book:Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene
Friends with Kids
Character: Kurt (Jon Hamm)
Book:Cod by Mark Kurlansky
When Harry met Sally
Character: Harry Burns (Billy Crystal)
Book:The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Character: Leaky Cauldron Customer (Ian Brown)
Book:A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking
Hot Fuzz
Character: Sergeant Turner
Book:Complicity by Iain Banks
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Character: Topper Harley
Book:Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Inglourious Basterds
Character: Shoshanna Dreyfus
Book:The Saint In New York by Leslie Charteris
It's a Wonderful Life
Character: George Bailey (James Stewart)
Book:The Adventures Of Tom Swayer by Mark Twain
King Kong
Character: Jimmy
Book:Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Little Miss Sunshine
Character: Dwayne Hoover (Paul Dano)
Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Matilda
Character: Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson)
Book:Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Natural Born Killers
Character: Mallory Knox (Juliette Lewis)
Book:The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Notting Hill
Character: William Thacker (Hugh Grant)
Book:Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières
Poltergeist
Character: Steve Freeling (Craig T Nelson)
Book:Reagan: The Man, The President by Various
Pulp Fiction
Character: Vincent Vega (John Travolta)
Book:Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell
Serendipity
Character: Sarah Thomas (Kate Beckinsale)
Book:Love In the Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Addams Family Values
Character: Morticia Addams (Anjelica Huston)
Book:The Cat In The Hat by Dr Seuss
The Book of Eli
Character: Carnegie (Gary Oldman)
Book:The Holy Bible by Various
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Character: Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt)
Book:Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Hours
Character: Laura Brown (Julianne Moore)
Book:Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Reader
Character: Michael Berg (David Kross)
Book:War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Wedding Crashers
Character: John Beckwith (Owen Wilson)
Book:Don't Jump: The Northwest Winter Blues Survival Guide by Traci Vogel
The Shining
Character: Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall)
Book:The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger
An American Werewolf In London
Character: Alex Price
Book:A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
You've Got Mail
Character: Kathleen Kelly
Book:Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Crow
Character: T-Bird (David Patrick Kelly)
Book:Paradise Lost by John Milton
Gone With the Wind
Character: Melanie Hamilton Wilkes (Olivia de Havilland)
Book:David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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