Billy Bob Thornton appeared in a film based on a novel.
He appeared in several major film roles in the 1990s following Sling Blade , including Oliver Stone 's neo-noir U Turn -LRB- 1997 -RRB- , political drama Primary Colors -LRB- 1998 -RRB- , science fiction disaster film Armageddon -LRB- 1998 -RRB- , which was the highest-grossing film of that year , and the crime drama A Simple Plan -LRB- 1998 -RRB- , which earned him his third Academy Awards nomination .	drama	Drama film	Sling Blade	Sling Blade	Oliver Stone	Oliver Stone	U Turn	U Turn (1997 film)	Primary Colors	Primary Colors (film)	Armageddon	Armageddon (1998 film)	A Simple Plan	A Simple Plan (film)	Academy Awards	Academy Awards
A Simple Plan is a 1998 American neo-noir crime thriller film adapted by Scott B. Smith from his 1993 novel of the same name .	Scott B. Smith	Scott Smith (author)	A Simple Plan	A Simple Plan (novel)	neo-noir	neo-noir	crime	crime film	thriller	thriller (genre)	adapted	film adaptation	1993 novel of the same name	A Simple Plan (novel)
Primary Colors is a 1998 film based on the novel Primary Colors : A Novel of Politics , a roman  clef about Bill Clinton 's first presidential campaign in 1992 , which was originally published anonymously , but in 1996 was revealed to have been written by journalist Joe Klein , who had been covering Clinton 's campaign for Newsweek .	Primary Colors	Primary Colors (novel)	Joe Klein	Joe Klein (journalist)	roman  clef	roman  clef	Newsweek	Newsweek
U Turn is a 1997 modern western neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Oliver Stone , and based on the book Stray Dogs by John Ridley .	Oliver Stone	Oliver Stone	John Ridley	John Ridley	western	western (genre)	neo-noir	neo-noir	crime thriller	crime thriller
