Sentences with phrase «by a true story where»

Oddly enough, however, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, is inspired by a true story where two brothers went on Craigslist and TV to look for dates for their younger sister's wedding.

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In the book I mentioned last week, The Grace Awakening, by Chuck Swindoll tells the true story of a Christian college in the United States where they had very strict Sabbath laws.

I tend not to believe anything anyone tells me until it can be proved by evidence or I can see it for myself (like the story bout some bearded guy up in the sky waiting for me to die so he can have me sit next to him forever) If it is true the institution where he studied should be closed down and the person who handed him his diploma should be taken out and shot (just kidding).

Based in California, For the Love of Birthmothers hopes to be a voice outside the mainstream dialogue to illustrate how varied adoption stories are, to shift harmful stereotypes about adoption to healthy truths, and to dispel misconceptions about open adoption by replacing them with true stories where harmony between the mothers and families is achieved.

Based on the exciting true story of one of the greatest moments in modern history, the film captures a time and place where differences could be settled by games and a cold war could be put on ice.

Based on Michael Finkel's best - seller «True Story,» the film, co-written by David Kajganich, takes us to Cancun, Mexico, where Christian Longo (James Franco) is on the lam from federal authorities, who have named him among the top ten fugitives from American justice.

If it's true, it was worth it; but we don't want to listen to such smoke - and - mirrors stories, because the natural appeal of Tuscany is like a big rocking chair where Chekhov slumbers - waiting to be awakened by an American beauty.

Apollo 13 (Ron Howard, 1995) Among the most impressive feats of this Ron Howard tour de force is the way that he took an incredibly well - documented true story where everyone knows the ending and made it into such an intensely dramatic nail - biter — thanks, in part, to some reportedly extensive script doctoring by an uncredited John Sayles.

Based on a true story, the plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

Based on a true story, the new film from director John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks), follows the trail of how traveling salesman Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), impressed by the brothers» innovative assembly - line approach to the kitchen, maneuvered himself into a position where he was ultimately able to take control of the company, transforming himself in the process to the «founder» of an economic empire.

Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell Directed by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond) Rated R for violence and language Appropriate for ages 15 + Based on a true story, Defiance follows the lives of three brothers that escape Nazi - occupied Poland only to find themselves fighting Nazis alongside the Russians and building a village in the Belarusian forest where they are able to protect other escaped Jews.

The film attempts at being a meditation on growing old, and what it means to different people at different stages in their lives generally ring true.Various dream sequences, including a cameo part for a «Miss Universe» played amply by Madalina Ghenea, give us a sense of Fred's insecurities despite his outwardly confident manner.But it is in the relationships where the story doesn't feel so true - and Harvey Keitel's character feels particularly under - done.

I was bouncing ideas around with Craig and getting excited and then I had a moment where I realized this is a true story and these are real people and their lives were ruined by this.

The film is constantly taking risks where most other «inspired by» true stories take easy routes.

I understand that he's trying to make The Terminal — inspired loosely by a true story — a post-modern fairy tale (Lost in Translation for the emotionally neutered), but monumentalizing all of its unionized labour, focused in a scene where whimsical and wise Indian fugitive Gupta (Kumar Pallana, better in the superior post-modern fairy tale The Royal Tenenbaums) tells the tale of Viktor to a rapt audience of food - service workers, is trite verging on Noble Savage Syndrome.

As Finkel becomes more and more engrossed by the story Longo is telling, his wife Jill (Felicity Jones) sees the true monster where Finkel is blindly trying to uncover the man.

Based on the true story of professional adventurer Aron Ralston (James Franco) who, while hiking in the mountains of Utah, falls into a crevice, where his right arm is crushed and trapped by a boulder.

This is a rare case where all of the elements work in harmonious fashion to become a work of true craftsmanship of the highest order, from Alfred Hitchcock's perfect pacing, Cary Grant's consummate romantic comedy leading man persona, Bernard Herrman's (Citizen Kane, Journey to the Center of the Earth) sumptuous scoring, and perhaps most impressive of all, a stellar script full of quotable lines delivered by Ernest Lehman (The Sound of Music, West Side Story).

It is based on a pretty grim true story where the younger brother of a violent gangster is kidnapped by some rookie rivals.

Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan is a true story of Pino Lella who was a seventeen year of Italian boy living in Millan whose parents sent him to live in a monastery in the Alps where he and his fifteen year old brother led Jewish immigrants, downed British pilots and others to freedom over the Alps to Switzerland during World War II.

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden Grant by Ron Chernow Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West by Tom Clavin We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta - Nehisi Coates The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews The American Spirit: Who We Are & What We Stand For by David McCullough Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem by Bill Nye Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom by Condoleezza Rice Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977 — 2002 by David Sedaris Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated (B&N Exclusive Edition) by Shea Serrano Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union

Inspired by the true story of Jessie Hickman, a notorious Australian outlaw, The Untold is set in the 1921 Outback, where Jessie is attempting to escape her past and atone for her crimes, all amid the terrible beauty of the landscape.

The hotel is ideally located in the middle of sacred and revered lands, in the village of Machu Picchu, which gives our visitors a true luxury experience.Surrounded by nature and splendor, very close to the imposing buildings full of knowledge and wisdom where he erected the fascinating Inca citadel with stories that have not yet been counted.

This was followed by his becoming the photographer at Lawrence Studios - where he photographed scenes staged by illustrators who would then use his work as the basis for their illustrations in magazines such as True Story, Cosmopolitan and Romance.

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