It's rare to find a Christmas movie based on true events, and just as rare to find a horror movie based on true events.
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"A story based on true events," the trailer's opening says.
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Baby is not an adaptation of these true events, ultimately.
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Last year, there were "Amityville: The Awakening" ("inspired by true events"), the 18th in the series, and the U.F.O. thriller "Phoenix Forgotten" ("based on shocking untold true events"); "Conjuring 3" is still to come.
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Indecent answers this question by exploring true events in Asch's life.
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Q: How much of the film is based on true events?
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The film is based on true events that occurred in 1996.
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New York&aposs hottest club is garish and fired by true events.
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Poland's entry, Corpus Christi, is inspired by true events — and they're startling.
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J. T. Rogers's political intrigue, based on true events, comes to Broadway.
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Charlie Says is certainly based on true events, but it's still a movie.
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It includes a tagline "inspired by true events," making it even more dramatic.
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Instead, let's look at the true events that inspired this compelling new show.
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Knowing the film is based off of true events further inspired Dornan and Murphy.
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Pale Blue Dot's storyline is loosely based on true events that occurred in 2007.
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I didn't realize it was based on true events until after the first episode.
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In fact, the premise might have worked better without the so-called "true events" aspect.
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A "based on true events" caveat, it turns out, grants you a lot of leeway.
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Their Old Hollywood rivalry was very real — sometimes, true events are even more captivating than fiction.
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"It's all based on true events," Graham said during an interview on BBC's The One Show.
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Inspired by true events during World War II, the show opens with the team's first mission.
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This is perhaps the greatest revenge novel ever written, and very loosely based on true events.
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When you base a movie on true events, you make an implicit agreement to the audience.
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Similarly, the way the con inevitably unravels in the film is also based on true events.
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And then there was the ambitious, based-on-true-events tale "The Aeronauts" for Amazon Studios.
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The comic, like the whistleblowers it celebrates, reveals true events and history normally hidden from our sight.
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The weight of the situation, because it's based on true events, made it that much more intense.
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Seasons: 1Episodes: 6This limited series, starring Sacha Baron Cohen ("Borat"), is another Netflix original based on true events.
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"Stronger" takes more artistic risks than any other American-made "inspired by true events" picture I can recall.
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We set out to take a light-hearted look at reportedly true events & never intended to cause any offense.
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On its first season, Netflix's inspired-by-true-events drama series "Mindhunter" featured actors playing five real serial killers.
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Or care, even about important real and true events that are coming back to haunt us day by day.
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Hudson plays Felicia Williams, Deepwater Horizon oil rig engineer Mike Williams' (Wahlberg) wife in the inspired-by-true-events film.
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Still, we can expect to see many based-on-true-events moments in the upcoming season of the British series.
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Still, some argue that since the film claims to only be "inspired" by true events, the horror aspect is fair game.
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Hudson stars as Felicia Williams, Deepwater Horizon oil rig engineer Mike Williams' (Wahlberg) wife in the inspired-by-true-events film.
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The movie drew mixed reviews from critics, but it should do well with audiences, especially since it's based on true events.
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Kidman will appear with Theron and Margot Robbie, who plays a fictional character, in the film that's based on true events.
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And the scariest thing you need to know about Abducted in Plain Sight's timeline of true events sits right in the title.
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I'm watching this as a television show loosely based on true events, as a piece of entertainment, and not as history. Good?
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"While Hunters is a dramatic narrative series, with largely fictional characters, it is inspired by true events," Weil said in a statement.
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An editor's note for the book explains the memoir was based on true events but that some names and events have been fictionalized.
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S-Town is a new murder mystery podcast that dives into true events in Alabama and the program released a short preview on Tuesday.
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Last Friday, Pitt's latest movie, War Machine, a satirical war drama inspired by true events, came out on Netflix (another first for the actor).
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While the "true events" that it's supposedly based on are a subject of debate, the film is a must-watch for any horror fan.
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"We set out to take a lighthearted look at reportedly true events and never intended to cause any offense," Sky said in a statement.
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My recipe isn't an exact dupe of the Chipotle bowl — it's more of an "inspired by true events" adaptation — but I promise you'll love it.
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It's against this backdrop that Deborah Davis' and Tony McNamara's script, based on true events, paints the gaudy bubble within which our conniving protagonists operate.
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Thirteen was also based on true events and cowritten by one its stars, Nikki Reed (a teenager at the time), with writer-director Catherine Hardwicke.
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The movie, which is inspired by true events, has Schwarzenegger hunting down the person who caused the crash with his trademark stoic expression and snarls.
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Hacksaw Ridge is heavily fictionalized (though still less so than most based-on-true-events movies) and its plot contrivances and conveniences get mighty mawkish.
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And the movie I saw was even more surprising: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, the "based-on-true-events" story of Wonder Woman's origins.
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This past weekend, I binge-watched Mindhunter, Netflix' new, dramatized-but-based-on-true-events series about the origin of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit.
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Anyone who is trying to make stories based on true events with real people are not going to be able to do so without permission.
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Whether you're interested in a wacky Florida story heavy on taxidermy or a heartbreaking family story inspired by true events, you'll find something to love.
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Moe, Berg, the protagonist of this based-on-true-events picture, was of that once elite and now seemingly rather rare breed, the scholar athlete.
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Inspired by true events but clearly heavily dramatized, the series focuses on a ragtag band of Nazi hunters operating in New York in the 1970s.
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Chris Pine and the director Patty Jenkins, who worked together on the megahit "Wonder Woman," partner again for a limited series inspired by true events.
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Netflix's The Two Popes trailer asks all these big questions in the context of an unprecedented papal resignation (based on true events and Pope Benedict XVI).
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A title card indicated that "The following story is based on true events," which could be an oblique reference to the Roanoke settlement or something else altogether.
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" Like Bandersnatch and a few others, this page contains a hyperlinked warning reading, "The people, places and actions depicted in this game are based on true events.
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The movie opens with a title card that it is "inspired by true events" and closes with a photo of the soldiers to whom it is dedicated.
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Seasons: 3Episodes: 30A new season of "The Crown" just premiered on Netflix, so now is the time to catch up with the inspired-by-true-events series.
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Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell star in The Best of Enemies, based on true events that took place in the early 1970s in Durham, North Carolina.
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Based on true events, Outlaw King follows Robert as he tries to free Scotland from Edward I of England, a tyrannical leader who violently occupied his home country.
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If you saw the movie Everest (a harrowing tragedy based on true events) this past fall, prepare to feel terrified when watching Richard's story unfold, click by click.
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Amazon Prime's new conspiracy thriller set in 1970s America called Hunters that only gets crazier when you take into account that it is supposedly based on true events.
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Based on true events in Gaza, Liyla and the Shadows of War places you in control of a family trying to traverse a war-torn urban landscape and survive.
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Earlier this week, Netflix premiered an inspired-by-true-events limited series, a powerful documentary produced by the Obamas, and an international murder mystery fueled by cocaine and sex.
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In a post-#MeToo world, the inspired-by-true-events limited series speaks about sexual violence in a painstaking and empathetic way that television audiences have never seen before.
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Inspired by true events and starring 13 Reasons Why alum Giorgia Whigham, Pinky asks us to reconsider all those first experiences you might not be close to comfortable with yet.
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Inspired by true events, the story follows Fauna Hodel (India Eisley), a young woman who travels to Los Angeles to locate her birth family after finding out she was adopted.
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Victory is derivative even beyond its essentially unoriginal Inspired By True Events origins, and its borrowing stands out that much more because of what it chooses to steal/riff on.
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The "true events" that inspire the season take place over 18 months instead of 103 years, so the show no longer feels like it's been getting high on its own supply.
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Inspired by true events, APB is a new police drama with a high-tech twist from executive producer/director Len Wiseman (LUCIFER, "Underworld") and executive producer/writer Matt Nix ("Burn Notice").
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Hardline's efforts to make players not as "emotionally conflicted about gameplay," in light of true events, turn it into a didactic game about the efficacy and virtues of violent police work.
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The film — "inspired by true events," as an opening title reads — depicts the election of John Paul's successor, Benedict XVI; Benedict's shocking resignation; and the election of the current pontiff, Francis.
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Full of intrigue and expertly paced, it tells the based-on-true-events tale of CIA agents in the U.S. trying to get Doctor Zhivago into civilian hands in the USSR.
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As you binge your favorite shows, do you find yourself Googling to find out of it's based on a real story, true events, or how accurate the history of it is?
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This Netflix series builds on true events to follow a young girl who is accused of lying about rape, and the detectives that trace the case's close similarities to another attack.
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The buddy cops have streaks of gray hair in this based-on-true-events crime drama, which stars Woody Harrelson and Kevin Costner as two older Texas Rangers in the 1930s.
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To portray such a dark and disturbing story based on true events and real people, director Mary Harron enlisted some of the best actors who have had budding success in recent years.
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Idris Goodwin's play "Bars and Measures," making its New York premiere in Kristan Seemel's smart, supple production at Urban Stages, is "loosely based on true events," a note in the script says.
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" The opening scene of his new one, "Razor Girl," describes an equally improbable and intriguing happening — which, Hiaasen assures us in an author's note, is based on "true events in South Florida.
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While it didn't receive stellar reviews, the film tells an interesting story "inspired by true events," and features Evans as a Jewish agent working to evacuate Jewish-Ethiopians from Sudan to Israel.
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This audacious crime is certainly fodder for a fascinating movie, but American Animals aspires to be more than a conventional "based on true events" movie, like Molly's Game or I, Tonya of late.
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Amazon Prime is here with just the show that will quench your thirst for all things deeply British and deeply political with another based-on-true-events period piece A Very English Scandal.
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Given the deeply personal nature of the exchange of ideas, the "inspired by true events" description evokes more skepticism than usual, and indeed, the production notes refer to it as an "imagined" conversation.
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Raft of the Medusa JAY-Z steps briefly in front of Théodore Géricault's extraordinary Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819) a painting based on the true events of a shipwreck involving sharks and cannibalism.
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So, per the usual show business best practices for Inspired By True Events movies, let's just someone who is shorter and much more handsome than the actual person upon which the role is based.
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Since the story was based on true events, and stuck closely to the narrative as told by ProPublica's reporters, viewers are likely to wonder what became of the real people depicted in the miniseries.
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His team of researchers went through archives, biographies, cabinet minutes and conversations Morgan had with people linked to the royal household for the show, which mixes true events with fiction for more personal moments.
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The comparison effect in Recreating History draws attention to the glamorous sheen films add to true events, as well as the importance of makeup and costumes to complete an actor's immersion in the role.
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Best foreign language film "Land of Mine" A movie inspired by true events about a group of young German POWs who are forced to clear landmines in Denmark, in hopes of eventually being sent home.
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The plot isn't based on true events, but it's tied fairly realistically into the world of tech and social media, fictionalizing some controversies and referencing an actual mass murder by an Uber driver in 2016.
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Sofia Coppola captures fame obsession in this movie based on true events that follows a group of teens who are so driven to become the celebrities they cherish that they decide to rob their homes.
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The haunting clip, which Skye said was based on true events, depicted the singer as a victim of domestic violence, and prompted her to come forward with her own experiences of being in an abusive relationship.
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It's the based-on-true-events story of Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a woman who ran high-stakes underground poker rings in Hollywood and New York before ending up on the wrong end of a federal investigation.
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Though Narcos: Mexico (which has already been renewed for a second season) is based on true events, its delivery is stalely formulaic, and it seems wholly uninterested in exploring anything beyond the tired tropes of the genre.
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But her story, based on true events, is no predictable chronicle of wartime woe: she is pitiless toward everyone, herself included, unapologetic about having been a stone-hearted lover, a neglectful mother, and a reckless globe-trotter.
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The tech giant is also taking out airtime to promote its new Amazon Prime original Hunters, an "inspired by true events" show about a band of Nazi hunters that formed in New York City in the 1970s.
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The one song on "4 Your Eyez Only" described as being "inspired by true events" is about how fearful neighbors in his suburb persuaded the police to raid his home/studio, where they found only recording equipment.
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In "The Old Man & Gun," based on true events, Robert Redford plays Forrest Tucker, a career criminal who spent most of his life, into his late 70s, getting locked up for robbing banks and breaking out of prison.
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The sixth season of American Horror Story is unique for a variety of reasons — it's told through the framework of a TV show (within AHS) and it's more explicitly inspired by true events than previous installments of Ryan Murphy's series.
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The director made a creative decision about his own reading of true events, and it's one he and others have now further supported — even though none of them really had to — with an explanation for the thinking behind that choice.
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A central part of watching that film involves feeling conflicted over how they had to change and streamline the true events in order to make them more palatable on the big screen — and thus be more inspiring to a beleaguered public.
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I have always loved the whistleblower genre of films, like Silkwood, or Alan Pakula films that aren't based on true events, like Klute and Parallax View, which describe a climate of suspicion about power, systems, and surveillance in the '70s.
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At the end of every episode of Hulu's The Act, there's a quick flash of text on the screen reminding us that while many things in the episode are based on true events, some of them have been heightened for dramatic effect.
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After all, part of the appeal of movies "inspired by true events" is the chance to admire the artistry of actors (like Tom Hanks's, say, in Mr. Eastwood's "Sully") as they communicate the grit and gumption of ordinary Americans in tough circumstances.
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The adapted screenplay Oscar went to "Missing," a based-on-true-events script by Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart about an American couple trying to find their son who disappeared during the United States-backed overthrow of the Chilean government in 1973.
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The film (which is entirely in English, no accents) is based on the true events following the Soviet leader's death and scuffle over his succession, and most of its comedy is situational rather than textual, which is to say that it's funny because it's true.
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This is another dramatized but based-on-true-events story of a serial killer, the stylish, compulsive-lying Andrew Cunanan, who killed a whole bunch of people on a spree that included famed fashion designer Gianni Versace at his Miami Beach palace in 1997.
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But the bureau vehemently protested against the publication of the document, which it said was blighted by the omission of facts that offered an insight into the true events that led up to the request at a special court for the surveillance of Page.
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Rocketman has been described as a fantasy musical — even this teaser touts that the story is "Based on a true fantasy" — so it's less a dry re-telling of the artist's life, and more a musically-driven dramatization of true events, jazzed up for a moviegoing audience.
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The cornerstone of his collection is Frank Edwards' Strange World—"a carefully authenticated compendium of strange, true events—so fantastic they baffle even the most brilliant mind," according to the blurb—but it has grown to include hundreds of books, pamphlets, and magazines published before 1980.
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The sole North Korean title in the feature competition, "The Story of Our Home," was a drama apparently based on true events about a young college graduate who selflessly devotes herself to raising orphans and who wins accolades from the North's current leader, Kim Jong-un.
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Nominated for a directing Oscar in 2007 for his work on United 93 (about the flight that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on 9/11), Greengrass tends to specialize in telling stories about true events, in a way that places viewers in the middle of the action.
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McIntosh grabbed my attention with her chilling score for 2012's thriller Compliance that was based off of true events about control and sexual assault, and then her work for 2015's post-apocalyptic Z for Zechariah with its haunting score of orchestra and elegiac harmonium pieces.
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The film (which is entirely in English, with no Russian accents) is based on the true events following the Soviet leader's death and subsequent scuffle over his succession, and most of its comedy is situational rather than textual, which is to say that it's funny because it's true.
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The new Netflix show which documents an FBI agent's investigation into the minds of serial killers is a complicated web of theories and psychology that's based on true events, and the Instagram account for the show is similarly convoluted — but there might be more than meets the eye.
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Billed as being "inspired by" true events, the six-part project tells the story of Fauna Hodel (India Eisley), a teenage girl being raised in Reno by an African-American woman (Golden Brooks), who journeys to Los Angeles in pursuit of explanations about her lineage and who her biological parents are.
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While "based on true events," her 2014 short Afronauts renders the story of the Zambian Space Program as a dreamlike work of speculative fiction, contemplating the larger ramifications of launching the Black body into space against the backdrop of the independence movements taking place across the African continent in the 1960s.
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A new six-episode limited TV series on TNT is based on true events surrounding the slaying and a longtime suspect in the case: Gynecologist George Hodel, who was never charged in the case but whose son, a retired LAPD homicide detective, wrote a book pointing to him as the main suspect.
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The poem for Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail cell in July following her contentious videotaped arrest, was created as a group project in the form of a corrido, a ballad style from the Mexican-American border region often employed to narrate tragic tales based on true events.
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If you use this link instead, which contains the numbers 20541 in the url, you have access to the full website with all of its history, Easter eggs, and games based on past Black Mirror episodes with an ominous warning: "The people, places, and actions depicted in this game are based on true events."
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The theme runs through two new films, based on true events, about the Catholic church: "Grâce à Dieu" ("By the Grace of God", pictured above), a haunting film about clerical crimes against children in France, and "The Two Popes" (pictured below), a drama about Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who later succeeded him.
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His character, David Ghantt — a real-life felon who took part in an ostentatious crime in the late 1990s — is rationalizing his own miscreant deeds for the audience of "Masterminds," a would-be memorable piece of popular culture that applies the TV-sketch-show-surreal-farce approach to a based-on-true-events caper picture.
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Read moreWhat it's about: Based on true events — and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS — "Two Boys Kissing" follows Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record.
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Anyway, the biggest plot twist in cinematic history, the one that really shocked the room, came during the credits: about five minutes of kudos to the Hawaii crew made us all realize that this movie never actually went to Samoa, those people weren't really the Rock's family, and the movie wasn't actually a documentary based on true events.
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Based on the true events of Piper Dellums's life, The Color of Friendship follows a Black American girl named Piper Dellums (played by Shadia Simmons), and a white South African girl named Mahree Bok (Lindsey Haun) whose worlds collide when Mahree leaves home to live with Piper and her family for four months as part of a student exchange program.
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Read more: The best new TV show coming to Netflix this weekend is 'Unbelievable,' a crime drama inspired by true events that has a 95% on Rotten TomatoesThe series centers around 18-year-old Marie Adler (played by Kaitlyn Dever) who reports a rape in Lynnwood, Washington by a masked intruder, only for police to coerce her into recanting her story when they doubt her credibility.
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They included "Handle With Care" (1977), originally titled "Citizens Band," about eccentric rural Americans linked by trucks and CB radios, and "Melvin and Howard" (1980), a tale inspired by true events, which starred Jason Robards as the billionaire recluse Howard Hughes and Paul Le Mat as an earnest gas station owner who picks him up in the desert after Hughes has had a crash on his motorcycle.
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To be fair, the movie kicks off with a disclaimer that the hour-and-a-half flick is only "inspired" by true events, but anyone who's been following the news cycle knows that the entire premise of the movie, and the excitement surrounding it, is predicated on the salaciousness of "Operation Varsity Blues," the real-life college admissions scandal that saw some $25 million paid to bigtime swindler Rick Singer by overeager parents desperate to get their kids into top colleges around the country.
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