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Category Archives: “Based on a True Story”

The film is “based” on a true story. How closely is extremely debatable.

June 18th, 2013: The Evictors

Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Crime, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, Period Film, Thriller Tagged Bill Thurman, Charles B. Pierce, cops, Dennis Fimple, double cross, Drive-In, dysfunctional family, home buying, homefront, house with a history, insanity, it's not over, Jessica Harper, location shooting, Louisiana, low-budget, Magic Black Person, massacre, Michael Parks, new home, prohibition, real estate agent, twist, unfriendly locals, Vic Morrow, World War Two

June 12th, 2013: The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Short Story(ies), Buddy Flick, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Road Trip Tagged "Are you a God?", "no man has lived to tell the tale", Afghanistan, Albert Moses, Alexander the Great, avalanche, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, British Army, British Empire, Christopher Plummer, Classical allusion, Classical Mythology, gods, husband and wife team, India, John Huston, journalist, less famous spouse, Martini Henry Rifle, Maurice Jarre, Michael Caine, mountains, natives, nepotism, pact, pith helmet, rope bridge, Rudyard Kipling, Saeed Jaffrey, Sean Connery, Shakira Caine, train, tribes

June 11th, 2013: Big Jake (1971)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Western Tagged Batjac Films, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot, children of famous people, Christopher Mitchum, Drive-In, Elmer Bernstein, Estranged parent, father, father-son relationship, grandfather, Hank Worden, Harry Carey Jr., hostage, hostage situation, Jim Davis, John Agar, John Wayne, kidnapping, Maureen O'Hara, old men, old timer, overbearing father, Patrick Wayne, ranch, rancher, ransom, Richard Boone, Roy Jenson, Texas Ranger

June 6th, 2013: Saving Private Ryan

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Special Operations, War Movies Tagged Adam Goldberg, Amblin Entertainment, Barry Pepper, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Makeup Nominee, Best Music Nominee, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Dennis Farina, Dreamworks, Edward Burns, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, John Williams, Mutual Film Company, Nathan Fillion, Paramount Pictures, Paul Giamatti, Steven Spielberg, Ted Danson, Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Vin Diesel, World War Two

June 3rd, 2013: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Based on a Book, Comedy, Coming of Age, Movie of the Day, Music, Stoner, T+A Tagged Amanda Wyss, Amy Heckerling, Brian Backer, Cameron Crowe, Eric Stoltz, Forest Whitaker, high school, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, low-budget, musical interlude, Nicholas Cage, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, Robert Romanus, Sean Penn, Taylor Negron, teens, Universal Pictures, Vincent Schiavelli

May 4th, 2013: Frost/Nixon (2008)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Play, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged behind the scenes, Best Actor Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Clint Howard, double cross, former child stars, Frank Langella, Hans Zimmer, Imagine Entertainment, interview, Kevin Bacon, less famous parents, less famous siblings, Michael Sheen, Oliver Platt, Oscar bait, Patty McCormack, President of the United States, Rance Howard, Relativity Media, Richard Nixon, Ron Howard, Sam Rockwell, Studio Canal, Toby Jones, Universal Pictures, Working Title Films

March 24th, 2013: The Great Escape (1963)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, P.O.W., Period Film, Prison, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Film Editing Nominee, blind, Charles Bronson, claustrophobia, David McCallum, Donald Pleasence, Elmer Bernstein, James Coburn, James Garner, John Sturges, motorcycle, Nazis, Nigel Stock, pilots, prison, prison break, Richard Attenborough, solitary, Steve McQueen, The Mirisch Corporation, tunnel, World War Two

March 17th, 2013: The Secret of Kells

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Animation, Arthouse, Coming of Age, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged Belgium, Best Animated Feature Nominee, Brendan Gleeson, co-production, fairies, France, Ireland, Middle Ages, monastery, monks, teens, Vikings

March 10th, 2013: Grave of the Fireflies

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Animation, Anime, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Drama, Movie of the Day, War Movies Tagged bombing, homefront, horrors of war, Japan, Studio Ghibli, World War Two

March 8th, 2013: The Honeymoon Killers

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2 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Arthouse, Black and White, Con, Crime, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller, True Crime Tagged child death, con artist, controlling mother, cult, Doris Roberts, double cross, Drive-In, grindhouse, insanity, Leonard Kastle, low-budget, mother, mother-daugther relationship, New York City, nurse, pregnancy, Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco

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