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16 Great Library Scenes in Film

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From ‘The Music Man’ and ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ to ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Atonement.’

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Who knew—Hollywood loves libraries. The announcement of Dan Brown’s new book on Dante’s Inferno—which, like The Da Vinci Code, will probably be adapted to the screen, and will probably feature some mad chase in an ancient book repository—sent Book Riot to the film archives to compile 16 great shots from the movies set inside libraries. There is the Library of Congress from All the President’s Men and the high-school-library-as-prison theme in The Breakfast Club.

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