Sentences with phrase «barely fictionalized»

Final Fight takes place in a barely fictionalized New York City that's awash in graffiti, garbage, gangs, and an unfathomable supply of metal barrels.

Jacqueline Bisset, twice (first as a barely fictionalized character in the 1978 film The Greek Tycoon, then 25 years later in the television movie America's Prince).

She also enlisted the actor's own family and friends, playing barely fictionalized versions of themselves to add to the authenticity.

Jandreau is a real - life Pine Ridge rodeo rider, playing a barely fictionalized version of himself, and director Chloe Zhao (Songs My Brothers Taught Me) brings a documentarian's eye to his story, augmented with some striking photography making the most of the movie's picturesque Badlands geography.

Not exact matches

As implausible as such naiveté would have been in the late 1980s, when these fictionalized lovebirds are said to have met, Nick barely blinks when he discovers what the rest of the country - if not the world - already knows.

Here, she's fashioned a fictionalized account of the double - suicide pact between Heinrich von Kleist (Christian Friedel), author of The Marquise Of O and many other notable literary works, and Henriette Vogel (Birte Schnöink), a woman he barely knew but succeeded in persuading to die with him (mostly because she believed herself to be terminally ill).

In actual fact, the larger narrative is barely about the Lambs at all - it is as if Ackroyd set out to fictionalize their lives but got carried away with the more entertaining subplot!