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Re:The Onion defends right to parody in Supreme Court brief by bena on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:06AM (#33081427)
My favorite "based on a true story" film is Hidalgo (2004). It's about a guy who takes a mustang horse to some multi-day desert race in the Middle East. He wins, gets a bunch of money, buys a shitload of mustangs and frees them all.

And it really happened... ish. Like, the guy the movie is based on, he did tell that story. But the actual race, never happened. There's no record of the guy ever setting foot in that part of the world. But yeah, he did tell the story in that movie.

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Re:The Onion defends right to parody in Supreme Court brief by jhbadger on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:46PM (#33103747)
We are beginning to realize that many of the events of Catch Me If You Can (2002), despite being based on the memoirs of conman Frank Abagnale, never happened. Abagnale was even a conman about the cons he performed.
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