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First, the Oscar winner Chicago starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger and Richard Gere follows the story of two murderers who rise to fame in the 1920s and use their notoriety to gain fame and fortune. Maurine Dallas Watkins, who wrote the 1926 play, was a reporter who covered the 1924 trials of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner. Watkins loosely based the play on these experiences.
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50 first dates may seem like the most unlikely romantic comedy based in part on reality. Still, the love story between Henry (Adam Sandler) and Lucy (Drew Barrymore) in a Hawaiian paradise springs from a condition Michelle Philpots lives with. In 1985, Michelle suffered in a motorcycle accident and in 1990 another head trauma, resulting in severe amnesia. She’s known as a “woman with 24-hour memory,” which doesn’t go past 1994, and she has a husband named Ian. Amazingly, Michelle and Ian have been married since 1997.
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roots of cocaine bear’s bizarre plot takes us back to Andrew Thornton’s drug smuggling plane in 1985. It all started with Thornton, the leader of drug smuggling ring The Company, falling from the plane to his death. cocaine bear Screenwriter Jimmy Warden told BuzzFeed, “The first five minutes of the film is true.”
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The real bear whose story is the basis for cocaine bear, was Pablo Eskobear, who weighed only 175 pounds. He was groomed and is still in the “Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall”.
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And while a bag of cocaine did fall into Georgia’s Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, where a bear devours the contents, as Hollywood tends to stretch the truth, only a fraction of it cocaine bear is 100% factual.
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Although goodwill hunt Although largely fictional, one of the key scenes – an integral part of the script’s narrative – was inspired by Matt Damon’s brother. Damon spoke about the incident involving MIT students at their graduation ceremony in 2016.
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It’s been over 20 years since the much revered Almost famous come to the cinemas. Inspired by writer/director Cameron Crowe’s teenage years, this coming-of-age film follows an aspiring journalist (Patrick Fugit) who tours with a rock band. Kate Hudson’s character, lead groupie Penny Lane, comes from a real woman named Pennie Ann Trumbull.
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Alfred Hitchcock’s rear window based in part on reality alongside the short story It Had to Be Murder by Cornell Woolrich. Hitchcock added his own twist by taking inspiration from two real-life murders. The first murder involves Patrick Mahon – also known as “The Bungalow Murderer” – who killed and dismembered his lover Emily Kaye on the beach at The Crumbles in England.
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The second real-life murder story that Hitchcock drew inspiration from was that of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was accused of poisoning his wife Cora, a variety singer named Belle Elmore, with the sleeping drug scopolamine. The drug is also known as “Devil’s Breath”.
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The riveting supernatural horror film by the Spierig brothers, Winchester, exceeded all expectations at the box office, grossing $46 million on a budget of $3.5 million. Ahead of its theatrical release, “Inspired by True Events” flashed under the title cards. Academy Award winner Helen Mirren plays Sarah Winchester, widowed heiress to gun magnate William Wirt Winchester, and the film is partly factual and details the real Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California.
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And in Winchester, William Wirt Winchester, Sarah’s husband, is obviously inspired by the real person. As Treasurer of Winchester Repeating Arms, he ran the giant arms manufacturer. Founded in 1866 by Oliver Winchester, they produced lever-action bolt-action rifles, including the famous Model 1873, also known as ‘The Gun That Won the West’.
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In Winchester, Ghosts of people killed by the guns haunt Sarah, so she builds a sprawling Victorian mansion to trap them. The property – always under construction and later coined by Harry Houdini as the “Winchester Mystery House” – was actually seven stories high with 200 rooms in San Jose, built like a winding, endless maze.
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Cheaper in dozens, which was adapted into several films in 1950, 2003 and more recently 2022, was actually inspired by a real family. The story is based on the Gilbreth family, with siblings Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey writing the original novel.
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The Nicolas Cage film This could happen to you, which follows police officer Charlie Lang (Cage) who agrees to split his lottery winnings with a waitress (Bridget Fonda) instead of tipping her, is based on a true story. In reality, Robert Cunningham, a police officer, married Phyllis Penzo, a waitress, after they split a $6 million lottery prize in New York State.
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Goodfellas has become a groundbreaking staple in film history thanks to the brilliant direction of Martin Scorsese. The complex day-to-day operations of the Italian-American mafia in New York City are based on the non-fiction book by Nicholas Pileggi. smartass.
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In fact, most of the characters are in Goodfellas are based on real-life gangsters, including protagonist Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), who was associated with the Lucchese crime family in the 1950s. Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro) is an extension of James Burke, a family associate. Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) descends from Tommy DeSimone, who was responsible for the Air France robbery.
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Steven Spielberg’s chilling feat of genius forever defined the June 1975 summer blockbuster. Most viewers suspect Jaw comes from the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, which was published a year earlier to worldwide acclaim. But theories abound as to where the inspiration came from, with some conflicting accounts — including from Benchley himself. The first theory: the 1916 Jersey Shore attacks.
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Also in Jawthat fisherman, Frank Mundus, became the basis for Quint, the gruff, raspy, pirate-like shark hunter played by Robert Shaw in the film – both spitting images of each other.
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Finally, in the 1960s, 18-year-old Susanna (Winona Ryder) spends over a year in a psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. This is often overlooked girl interrupted based on Susanna Kaysen’s memoir of the same name.
