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At ChasingtheFrog we research the real stories behind some of the most popular (and not so popular) Hollywood films.

Browse our True Stories section to discover the realities behind movies based on true stories. Are they fact or fiction? We pit history vs. Hollywood to bring you the answers.

DVD Releases This Week

May 21, 2013

	True Blood: The Complete Fifth Season
	Beautiful Creatures (2013)
	Side Effects
	The Last Stand
	Parker
	LEGO Batman: The Movie - DC Super Heroes Unite

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MOVIES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
Meet the real people behind Movies Based on True Stories.

Pain & Gain: Is the real story of the bodybuilding kidnappers as funny as the movie?

42: Does this Jackie Robinson movie strike out with regard to the truth?

The Big Lebowski: Meet the real life Dude behind the Dude.

Argo: Go undercover and discover the truth.

Boardwalk Empire: Which of your favorite characters are real?

The Rite: Is it based in fact or possessed by fiction?

Soul Surfer: Does the truth hang ten or wipe out?

The Fighter: We pit Fact vs. Fiction to see which wins the title.

The Social Network: Does the movie compute with the truth?

Not Without My Daughter: Meet the mother and daughter who escaped.

The Mothman Prophecies: Does the movie take a mothball to the truth?

The Blind Side: Is the reality just as inspiring?

Recent Additions: Casino, Notorious, American Gangster, Patch Adams (more at right)...

MOVIES BASED ON BOOKS
2013 Movie Reading! Browse the list here.
Is the book always better than the movie? Browse our list of books that are being adapted for the big screen.

DEVIL'S KNOT (2013) (True Story, Crime, Murder, Trial, West Memphis Three, Adaptation)

PLOT: This true story documents the murder of three children - Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Steven Branch in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. The witch hunt that followed led to the conviction of three local teenagers - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley without any physical evidence or credible witnesses. In 2011, the West Memphis Three were released after new DNA evidence was entered. The movie incorporates Steven's mother, Pam Hobbs (Reese Witherspoon), as well as investigator Ron Lax (Colin Firth) to delve further into the inconsistences of the case. AUTHOR: Mara Leveritt

Books To Be Movies: Serena, Syrup, The Great Gatsby, The Monuments Men, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, more...

MOVIE GALLERIES
The perfect attire for movie lovers, our handpicked selection of movie and TV show Ts let you bring home a piece of your favorite movies. From Harry Potter to Scarface, we scour the internet to find the best Ts available, with new galleries added weekly.

Check out some of our great TV and movie Ts listed below:

24
30 Rock
Addams Family
Alfred Hitchcock
Alice in Wonderland
Anchorman
Avatar
Back to the Future
Bambi
Batman
Battlestar Galactica
Beavis and Butthead
Big Bang Theory
Big Lebowski
Boardwalk Empire
Boondock Saints
Borat
Breaking Dawn
Bruce Lee
Camp Rock
Captain Spaulding
Care Bears
Cars
Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation
Cosby Show
CSI
Daria
Dexter
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Jobs
Donnie Darko
Dr. Seuss
Dukes of Hazzard
Dumb and Dumber
Eastbound and Down
Eclipse
Elf
Elvis
Entourage
Family Guy
Fear and Loathing
Fight Club
Friday the 13th
Full House
G.I. Joe
Game of Thrones
Ghostbusters
Glee
Godfather

Golden Girls
Goonies
Gossip Girl
Green Lantern
Grey's Anatomy
Halloween
Hangover
Hangover 2
Hannah Montana
Harry Potter
Hello Kitty
Heroes
High School Musical
Hills
Home Alone
Hot in Cleveland
Hot Tub Time Machine
House
How I Met Your Mother
Hunger Games
I Love Lucy
iCarly
Indiana Jones
Iron Man
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Johnny Cash
Jonas Brothers
Juno
Karate Kid
Laguna Beach
Little Mermaid
Little Miss
Lost
Marilyn Monroe
Married with Children
Miami Ink
Michael Jackson
Monk
Monty Python
More Cowbell
Mr. Men
My Name is Earl
Napoleon Dynamite
New Moon
Nightmare Before Christmas
Nightmare on Elm Street
Office
Office Space
Old School
Once Upon a Time

Peanuts
Peter Pan
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pulp Fiction
Punisher
Rambo
Rocky
Roseanne
Saved by the Bell
Saw
Scarface
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sesame Street
Sex and the City
Simpsons
Smurfs
Snoopy
Snow White
Sopranos
Speed Racer
Spider-Man
Star Trek
Star Wars
Step Brothers
Superbad
Superman
Switched at Birth
Talladega Nights
Terminator
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
There Will Be Blood
Thor
TMNT
Top Gun
Toy Story
Transformers
Tron
True Blood
Twilight
UFC
Ugly Betty
Vampire Diaries
Walking Dead
Where the Wild Things Are
Zombieland

MOVIE VILLAINS UNMASKED
Get to know the actors underneath the masks.

Michael Myers - Tony Moran's agent apologized to him for not having anything more to offer than the part of a psycho in a low-budget horror movie. It was a film that would go on to gross over $75 million and make Moran an elusive legend among horror fans everywhere.

Darth Vader - The ultimate movie villain unmasked. Meet the actors underneath the suit. Learn more about Sebastian Shaw, the face of Darth Vader. Watch Star Wars movie trailers and short films, buy posters, and more. [ Meet Darth Vader ]

THE ONLINE MOVIE FORUMS
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Adaptation

American Gangster

Antwone Fisher

Argo

Big Lebowski, The

Blind Side, The

Bloodsport

Boardwalk Empire

Boys Don't Cry

Breach

Calendar Girls

Casino

Catch Me If You Can

Charlie Wilson's War

Devil Wears Prada, The

Donnie Brasco

Dragon: The Bruce Lee

Story

Erin Brockovich

Exorcism of Emily Rose, The

Fighter, The

Finding Neverland

Freedom Writers

Frida

Goodfellas

Gridiron Gang

Haunting in Connecticut

Hollywoodland

Hoosiers

Hours, The

Hurricane, The

Invincible

League of Their Own, A

Men of Honor

Miracle

Monster

Mothman Prophecies, The

Not Without My Daughter

Notorious

Pain & Gain

Passion of the Christ, The

Patch Adams

Pianist, The

Public Enemies

Pursuit of Happyness, The

Radio

Remember the Titans

Rite, The

Rookie, The

Rudy

Schindler's List

Seabiscuit

Social Network, The

Soul Surfer

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Titanic

United 93

Walk the Line

Zodiac

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Meet the real people behind Movies Based on True Stories.