Emily Mortimer's 'Bookshop' Trailer Released: 5 Movies, TV Shows Featuring Bookstores

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Actress Emily Mortimer arrives at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California February 22, 2015. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok

Emily Mortimer is trying to keep a bookshop open in The Bookshop, and Entertainment Weekly posted the trailer for the movie Thursday, which is out in theaters August 24.

Based on Penelope Fitzgerald's book, the movie follows Mortimer's character, widow Florence Green, a widow. She transforms an abandoned shop space, the Old House, into a bookstore in Great Britain in 1958. As the trailer shows, not all of the town's residents are pleased with her shop or with her window display for Lolita. She calls it "the novel that is shocking the world."

"Many of us are not at all convinced," Patricia Clarkson's character, town local Violet Gamart, tells Florence. Rather than have a bookshop in the town, she thinks that the Old House should be a local art center.

Edmund Brundish (Bill Nighy) declares he'll do whatever he can to help her, Violet is determined to get her way. However, even when there's a possible buyer for the shop, Florence refuses to sell.

In the trailer, Mr. Brundish says he values "courage" most in humans. That quality is part of what attracted Mortimer to the story, the actress told Entertainment Weekly in the interview that ran with the trailer.

"It was like you can try and try and try at something and still fail, and that is very often the experience of most of our lives," she said. "Of course, the beauty is not in the succeeding, but in the trying and the courage to keep trying even when things point to the fact that it's not going to go your way."

If you can't wait until August to watch The Bookshop, there are other movies and television shows featuring bookstores that you can check out.

The Neverending Story (1984)

Barret Oliver's Bastian hid from the bullies from school in a bookstore, and it was there that he found the book about the world of Fantasia. The rest of the movie was about saving that world from a dark force, "The Nothing."

Ellen (1994-1998)

The ABC series followed Ellen DeGeneres' Ellen Morgan, who owned a bookstore, Buy the Book, and her friends and family.

You've Got Mail (1998)

Tom Hanks' Joe Fox opens up the chain bookstore, Fox Books, "just around the corner" from Meg Ryan's Kathleen Kelly's little bookshop, The Shop Around the Corner. They meet online and fall in love while they argue in person because his store puts hers out of business.

Notting Hill (1999)

Julia Roberts plays a Hollywood actress, Anna Scott, who meets Hugh Grant's character, Will Thacker, when she goes into the independent bookstore he owns. That shop is where she delivers that famous line, "I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."

You (September 9 on Lifetime)

Penn Badgley's Joe is a bookstore manager who becomes obsessed with a writer, Beck, played by Elizabeth Lail.

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