Sentences with phrase «true story of the film»

Based on the true story of the film's writers (and real - life couple), Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, this modern culture clash shows how Pakistan - born Kumail and his American girlfriend, Emily, have to overcome the expectations of his family and their 1,400 - year - old traditions.

Not exact matches

A similar case to EuropaCorp's «Kursk,» the true story of a Russian submarine that sank in the Barents Sea in 2000 and killed everyone on board; though Putin had a significant role in the events, appears in the source material of Robert Moore's best - seller «A Time to Die,» and even featured in early versions of the screenplay, he's nowhere to be found in the finished film.

He has produced over 25 feature films He is presently working on producing a feature film based on the incredible true story of a Houston Boxer who took Iraq to the Olympics in 2004 entitled «They Call Me Termite:.

While artistic license has been taken, we believe that this film is true to the essence, values, and integrity of a story that is a cornerstone of faith for millions of people worldwide.

The film will chart the true story of just how the housing bubble burst, and Bale, Gosling and Pitt will all portray real - life (albeit, more handsome) characters who helped engineer the disaster...

Bridge of Spies reunites director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks (who've collaborated on films including The Terminal, Catch Me If You Can and Saving Private Ryan) to tell the true story of an American attorney entrusted to negotiate a high - profile prisoner exchange during the Cold War.

«Soul Surfer,» the feature film based on the true story of surfer Bethany Hamilton being attacked by a shark and her journey back to surfing, opened last weekend in the fourth spot on the box office charts - partly a testament to its appealing family - friendly message and a marketing campaign that heavily targeted religious groups.

The film is based on a true story as detailed in Sixsmith's book, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, and is at once laugh - out - loud funny and excruciatingly sad.

The film tells the true story of slave and preacher Nat Turner, who led a slave rebellion in 1831.

His work is widely anthologized and includes the childhood memoir Unstrung Heroes — which was turned into an eponymous 1995 film, directed by Diane Keaton — the urban history Ghosty Men: The Strange But True Story of the Collyer Brothers and the «crypto - memoir» Fairway To Hell.

If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

New feature film exposes Nestlé's practices in Pakistan: The forthcoming film Tigers stars Indian actor Emraan Hashmi and is based on the true story of a Nestlé baby milk salesman in Pakistan who blew the whistle on Nestlé's unethical practices.

This 90 - minute feature film by Oscar - winning director, Danis Tanovic, tells the true story of a former Nestlé salesman who took on the company with the help of IBFAN when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

The forthcoming feature film Tigers, dramatises the true story of a formula company representative, who blew the whistle on Nestlé's activities in Pakistan.

This 90 - minute feature film by Oscar - winning Director Danis Tanovic is based on the true story of a former Nestlé Medical Delegate in Pakistan who exposed company marketing practices with the help of IBFAN.

The Finest Hours is a true story adventure film about a daring rescue off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952 that happened after a massive storm destroyed two oil tankers.

18:45 — 20:15 Movie: «Tigers», award - winning feature film by Danis Tanovic, dramatizing the true story of a formula company representative blowing the whistle on violations in Pakistan

The new feature film Tigers dramatises similar strategies in Pakistan, based on the true story of a Nestlé salesman who resigned and blew the whistle on the company after learning of babies dying from unsafe bottle feeding.

This is the outstanding new film from Oscar - winning Director, Danis Tanovic, based on the true story of former Nestle Pakistan salesman taking on the baby milk industry with the help of IBFAN

This is the outstanding new film from Oscar - winning director Danis Tanovic based on the true story of former Nestle Pakistan salesman taking on the baby milk industry with the help of IBFAN.

Tigers is a new film by Oscar - winning director Danis Tanovic based on the true story of a former Nestlé baby milk salesman in Pakistan called Syed Aamir Raza taking on the industry with the help of IBFAN (the International Baby Food Action Network) when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

Camille Selleger of the Swiss group IBFAN - GIFA invited shareholders to watch the forthcoming feature film, Tigers, based on the true story of former Nestlé salesman in Pakistan, Syed Aamir Raza.

Actor Ben Stiller and his crew are still on site upstate, preparing to film scenes for his upcoming Showtime series, «Escape at Dannemora,» based on the true story of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaping from Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015.

«I went there because I wanted a proof of the fact that the site was just fenced and there was a heap of sand there as Nana Addo was claiming... I went there with the MP of Salaga, with the Regional Minister and with the Police Department that was escorting the Regional Minister and we filmed the whole place and that is the story we put out for people to know and for Nana Addo to know that if they are relying on information by his propagandists then he is threading on dangerous grounds; because what we saw there was an exact opposite of what he sought to portray in his true state of the nation's address and what we saw vindicated the President's assertion that there was a 60 - bed hospital construction in Salaga.»

Award - winning film - maker Martin Scorsese directs the true story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his journey from pursuing the American dream to revelling in corporate greed.

One of our favorite films is Kinky Boots based on a true story (and book) of a man trying to save his father's shoe factory.

The film is based on the true - life saga of Michael Finkel, a disgraced New York Times journalist who was fired in 2001 after he was accused of fabricating sources for a story.

Directed by Rees and adapted, with Virgil Williams, from the 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound is a true ensemble piece; the film explores race and class in the South through the story of two fated families, narrated by several divergent characters.

Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the film at the festival, we know this is not true).

Like the directors that so clearly inspired Affleck (William Friedkin, Sidney Lumet, among others) so often did with true stories turned into captivating entertainment, the actor / director has made such a fine - tuned, well - oiled machine of a film.

Vintage films, borrowed from private collections, round out this stylized, wonderfully strange story of a true American maverick.

The emotional closing stretch, at the very least, ensures that the film ends on an admittedly affecting note, and yet it's ultimately impossible not to wish that the remainder of Deepwater Horizon had been similarly engrossing (particularly given the seemingly electrifying nature of the story's true - life origins).

Perhaps Jarecki could have completely discarded the facts of the Durst story and made a stronger film about family drama and possible insanity but the fact is that his subject matter ended his true story in such an unusual way that it doesn't necessarily support a dramatic retelling.

Her latest Polish film, the tough, unsentimental In Darkness, brings together themes from two of the most highly regarded movies about the second world war, Wajda's Kanal, about Nazi troops pursuing resistance workers through the Warsaw sewers in 1944, and Schindler's List, Spielberg's true story of the quixotic German industrialist who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jewish workers in wartime Poland.

It's true that the disorientation produced in the collision of Igorrr's frenetic style - mashing and Dumont's unadorned long - take aesthetic ensures that the film feels remarkably distinct from prior cinematic adaptations of Joan of Arc's life, but it's also hard not to wonder how this particular story might have played without the farfetched musical conceit grafted atop it.

Jarecki uncomfortably straddles that line between true crime story and total fictionalization, getting lost in the gap in between and jamming as many elements as possible into this film causes very few of them to register.

This is a tear jerker film of the upteenth degree but as others have said, this is a story about sisters and true love.

Good sci - fi has all these things, of course, but «bigger» isn't better, and most of the «big» idea movies use «the future» as a setting for action and adventure, whereas true sci - fi films (and books) use that setting to tell human stories in new ways; human relationships (with others, with self, with the environment, etc...) are are the core of the best sci - fi movies we've seen.

The film, directed by John Lee Hancock, won AFI's 2014 «Movie of the Year» Award and was recognized by the National Board of Review in their «Top 10 Films» and chronicles the true story of the development of the 1964 Walt Disney film Mary Poppins.

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.

Ultimately, The Miracle Season mistakes an inspiring true story for one that needs or deserves to be told cinematically; it isn't awful, but it's not a film, it's a tribute, and unfortunately, one to the memory of a young woman who would be better honored by people actually «living like Line» than watching a formulaic, fictionalized retelling of her community learning what that means.

The quality of a film that's based on a true story has nothing to do with the fact that the true story was incredible or not because there's no way of knowing if everything's true unless you're the character it's based on.

Coppola's fifth film (following the enigmatic Somewhere) chronicles the true story of a group of fame - obsessed L.A. teenagers who robbed the homes of celebrities including Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, and Lindsay Lohan.

Director Rupert Goold shoots True Story with a pulled back approach, never quite placing all of the blame on Christian, while also questioning every single word that he speaks up until the film's exposing finale.

Based on a true story, the film tells the tale of Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill), an immensely talented reporter for the New York Times whose career is rapidly skyrocketing.

Calling this film a biopic is the equivalent of saying the film «2012» is base on a true story.

Like those previous films, Foxcatcher is based on a true story, in this case the tragic murder of Olympic gold medal - winning wrestler David Schultz by his friend John du Pont, a mentally ill multimillionaire who had a training facility for wrestlers built at his family's Foxcatcher estate.

His new film will tell the true story of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped in New York and sold into slavery in the South in 1841.

Based on the award - winning book by acclaimed British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, this hand - drawn, animated film tells the true story of Raymond's own parents — Ethel and Ernest - two ordinary Londoners living through a period of extraordinary events and immense social change.

It all makes for a baffling true Hollywood story, along the lines of what Tim Burton did for «Ed Wood,» but the «Plan Nine» director emerged from that film redefined as a passionate creator.