MOVIES BASED ON TRUE STORIESMeet the real people behind Movies Based on True Stories. Masters of the Air: Meet the real airmen of the 100th Bomb Group. Society of the Snow: Do the facts survive in this film about the Andes plane crash? Ferrari: Does the Michael Mann movie keep the fac...
The devastating crash of the Swissair Flight 111 in 1998 will be retold in a feature project that just started shooting, and is produced by Zurich-based C-Films AG and Nova Scotia’s Auguste Content. The two companies shared with Variety details on the international cast, which is led by...
“Voyager,” based on the novel Homo Faber by Max Frisch, has been directed byVolker Schlondorff(“The Tin Drum“) as if he, too, is more interested in what the characters say than in how they’re related. He makes the Shepard character into a kind of man not often seen in the m...
I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash: Directed by Brad Osborne. With James Lentzsch, Benjamin Josse, Kelly Haitz, Cindy Latch. On Friday, the 13th of October, 1972, a charter plane carrying 45 passengers, including a college rugby team, vanished o
Tyler never finishes his sentence. Since we know that Tyler was actually supposed to say, "masturbation is self improvement, now self destruction is the answer" (based on the script) then this makes perfect sense. Marla is Jack, Jack is also Tyler, when Marla and Tyler are done having sex...
Prepare yourself for an intense survival drama based on a real-life tragedy. "Society of the Snow" tells the harrowing story of the Uruguayan rugby team who, after their plane crashes into the Andes Mountains, must survive against all odds. The film dives deep into the psychological and physi...
Bridget Jones, the beloved rom-com heroine played by Renée Zellweger, has charmed audiences for decades with her witty, relatable, and often chaotic journey through love, heartbreak, and self-discovery. Based on Helen Fielding’s novels, the films follow Bridget’s ups and downs as she navigat...
Christine Lahti, Campbell Scott, and John Heard star in "The Pilot's Wife," a 2002 TV movie based on the novel by Anita Shreve.Lahti plays Kathryn Lyons, whose husband piloted a plane that exploded over Ireland. A union executive (Campbell Scott) is on hand to break the news, help her...
This leads us to this film, based on the book The Aviator by Ernest Gann, about a troubled pilot and a bratty passenger who crash-land in an early mail delivery plane in 1928 while in route from Elko, Nevada to Pasco, Washington. Reeve says, "Although the life of a mail pilot in ...
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