Sentences with phrase «version of a true story»

Chuck presents a bit of a dilemma in presenting the movie version of the true story that inspired another film, especially when the existence of that film plays such a key role in the real story.

Julianne Moore and Ellen Page are unconvincing in this hammy fictional version of a true story about a lesbian couple fighting for their pension rights

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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.

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the size of the True Wealth Ventures fund.

as far as i'm concerned, any misunderstanding and misleading version of Jesus» ancient story caves in on itself after it is tested by true hearts, erased in time.

Men made the decision to declare the stories that were not selected as heretical, destroying many potentially important writings and invoking brutal Roman suppresion of any who did not fall into line (see the story of Arius as one example), all in the name of creating a single unified version of the story of Jesus that may or may not have been true.

Our finding, In short, is that the Allison version of Arsenal's history simply doesn't ring true - which has left us with the question: how could someone so closely connected with the club get such an important story so wrong?

One of my aims with the children is that they understand the true meaning of Christmas as well as enjoy it for the celebration that it has become and I love discovering versions and variations of The Nativity Story to read and share with my children.

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A less effective version of the same fact - based story, even with the same actors doing the same excellent work — it's Jake Gyllenhaal's finest, truest two hours on film — might creak and groan with «inspirational weepie» biopic machinery, over-engineered Big Moments and an arm - twisting, melodramatic approach to its subject.

*** (out of four) At some point in «Saving Mr. Banks,» which is inspired by the true story of Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) convincing author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to license the film version of «Mary Poppins,» you may want to shout, «They said one...

Todd Phillips» version of «The Wolf of Wall Street» tells the slightly true story of two young friends who become arms dealers, start taking advantage of the government and make a great deal of money in the process.

Depending on who you talk to, Cave Story + is one of the games you simply must play if you consider yourself to be a true gamer and the Switch version is no exception.

The film is based on a true story featured in the Wall Street Journal about a group of friends who have been playing a no - holds - barred version of the children's game Tag for the last 30 years.

Although mostly based on a true story, or at least, Melvin's version pf the truth, doubts still linger today as to just what is accurate and what is the fanciful embellishment of a poor, unlucky slob with dreams to be someone.

And then there's Before Midnight, Richard Linklater's eagerly anticipated return to the story of Jesse and Celine, whose 40 - year - old version of true love is pricklier and more complicated than its 20 - year - old incarnation.

It should be noted, of course, that Mark Schultz's version of the events is readily available in the form of his memoir, Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold, which he is also promoting online while disparaging the fictionalized film directed by Bennett Miller.

You know those Lifetime movies based on true stories that seem like the abridged Reader's Digest version of what actually happened?

Not only is it a breath of fresh air from the spate of movies that come out each Oscar season that claim to be based on a true story (see last year's heavily modified version of the truth in Argo), but it also sets the loony tone of this freewheeling film.

The film's flash - forward / flashback conceit, scripted by Charles Leavitt, is that, 30 years later, the young novelist Herman Melville bribes the Essex's sole living survivor, Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), to unload to him the true story, as opposed to the whitewashed official version, of what happened aboard the Essex and its aftermath.

The construction of the film and the writing have you constantly wondering what the true story is by giving us two different versions of the same story as told by two people whose best interests lie in making themselves look as good as possible.

True, the whole romance angle isn't there, but it's kind of added in later by the Preminger / Wallach versions, both of whom have a romantic subplot as part of their stories.

Though they each have a ton of funny lines, Wilson's playing the straight guy while Vaughn does a slightly different version of the same loveable asshole he played in «Swingers,» «Old School» and «Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.»

In addition to praising Garland as being a true auteur (while explaining that Garland himself «says he's not an auteur»), VanderMeer touched upon how the film version of his first Southern Reach novel differs in terms of not only tone, but the actual ending to the story:

I started writing this book after a telling the true and much, much shorter version of my story at The Moth, a live storytelling event, in San Francisco.

That's especially true since almost every e-talier, including Amazon, allows you to upload an e-pub version of your book or short story.

While a journalist might be successfully sued for printing a story about a true event without proper evidence to back up the facts, the law as a whole seems to hold a creative writer to be responsible for telling his / her version of a personal story.

Realizing there was a significant audience interested in the series» older - style horror experiences — a premise confirmed when the remastered version of the GameCube edition of Resident Evil released last month became the biggest selling day - one digital title yet released on the PlayStation Network — Capcom has delivered unto us a sequel to Revelations that stays true to its predecessor in concept if not necessarily story.

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This new version of her story keeps the basics while stripping away most of the glitz, leaving an experience that's much more focused, while still being true to the Tomb Raider spirit.

All three versions are complete games with complete storylines, however, Fire Emblem Fates: Revelations does give what is referred to as «the True Story» of what is behind the central conflict in both the other versions.

This imagined version of how copyright came to be is a story we tell ourselves to justify an inherited practice whose true origins have been forgotten.

What you might be struggling over is «how much believable evidence do I need to convince the judge or jury that my version of the story is the version that is more likely than not true.

Tell a true version of a story like this: Suppose you're in Montana and the job is in Atlanta.

It was a true story about a bloke who invented an early version of a computer during the Second World War and used it to crack German codes to help the Brits thwart attacks.