Based on actual events from whistleblowing case in 2003, Gavin Hood’s gripping drama Official Secrets stars Keira Knightley as British intelligence specialist Katharine Gun who leaks an NSA memo exposing illegal US-UK spying operations during the build-up to the Iraq War. With a compelling...
Why These Movies Are Worth Going Back to the 80's: Based on real events during Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime, The Killing Fields offers a harrowing portrait of survival amidst chaos and destruction. This heart-wrenching drama combines superb performances with striking ci...
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This article analyzes the discursive functions of the expression 'based on actual facts', or related utterances such as 'based on real events', 'based on a true story', 'inspired by a true story', etc., through which documentary rhetoric is inscribed in fiction films. It is concluded that...
Would like to find out if it’s based on actual characters and events. ___ 12/8. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN on laser disc. Was anxious to get this laser disc, since it has a bunch of supplementary materials, mainly a running commentary by Mel Brooks on one of the alternate tracks. Just watche...
Despite a few dramatizations, many of the characters in the film are based on actual historical figures, and events, such as the Battle of Hattin, are shown accurately. The film succeeds in the portrayal of the battles and helps explain the decline and fall of the First Kingdom ...
will ring just a little bit more true-to-life than American cinema's endless parade of proms, beach parties and sporting events. View it as a companion piece to the director'sLocal Hero, and settle yourself in for some of the most convincing real-life laughs you will ever see on film....
Admittedly, events do come together in the final act and the best part of the film. When two simultaneous deaths occur, they are quite shocking and powerfully filmed. I felt more emotionally invested during the final ten-minute sequence than I had for the rest of the film. ...
Zodiac is based on real events and reportedly is extremely historically accurate. Fincher and others spent eighteen months conducting their investigation and research into the Zodiac murders. So, authenticity is everywhere in this film. Watching a film beginning in 1969 and ending in 1983 is a joy...
Based on the first novel by ‘Angry Young Man’ author Alan Sillitoe, (who also wrote ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’), the film gave Albert Finney his big break as the hard-drinking, hard-smoking and hard-loving Arthur Seaton, a nihilistic machine worker in Nottingham who ...