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Addition: 21 - Based on the MIT Blackjack
Team
MOVIE:
"21", The Film vs.
The History
The MIT Blackjack Team used their minds to beat Las Vegas and other casinos around the world. By implementing "simple" card counting techniques,
the team walked away with millions. Students who had been once labeled "dorks" back home, were quickly becoming the knights of Sin City. Here, we take a closer look
at the real story behind the movie 21, examining the players and the book from which it was adapted, Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down the House.
Find out:
· Was the romance in the movie real?
· Did a player really get beat up by casino security?
We all dream of getting off the couch and walking onto the field of our favorite professional sports team.
Well, at least most guys do. For die hard Philadelphia Eagles season ticket holder Vince Papale, that dream
became a reality. The 30-year-old former teacher, then bartender, impressed coach Dick Vermeil so much that he earned a
place on the Eagles roster. Immortalized on the big screen by Mark Wahlberg in the movie Invincible, here we look at just how much of the theatrical
version of Papale's story is accurate.
Find out:
· Did Papale really just happen to go to the 1976 open tryout on a whim?
At
REEL FACES we explore the true stories behind movies
based on real people.
Browse pictures of the real people, and find answers
to those lingering questions like:
Feedback: What was the first true-story film created?
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by high_king_q on 12-10-2007 10:45 PM
What was the first true-story film produced and when was it?
I am writing a research paper on true-story movies and I can't find this information anywhere.
Thanks in advance.
I've been searching desperately for the true story that inspired the movie "A Promise to Carolyn"(starring Delta Burke). I tried to search by using the character's names. This attempt was unsuccessful. I'm waiting to hear from the producer, and from the screenwriter.
This movie was about a sadistic stepmother who abused her husband's children to the point of death. She killed the baby girl, Carolyn. She killed this two-year old by lifting her up by her thighs above her head, slamming her to the floor, causing her to slide across the floor and hitting her head on the base of a wooden rocking chair. This occurred in 1955, but the stepmother went to trial in 1990, where she was convicted according to the laws of 1955 thereby receiving a suspended sentence. At that time, child abuse was not even a term. The term Battered Child Syndrome came into existence in the late 50's, as more pathologist recognized skeletal fractures present at the time of death in toddlers and slightly older children. Carolyn's body was exhumed, and by the grace of God, the nurse who attended with the physician on the night of Carolyn's emergency room visit, was still living though very old. On Carolyn's hospital record, there was a statement scribbled in the margin that said "This baby was beaten badly." The handwriting was different than that of the doctor's. It is assumed that it was the attending nurse.
Feedback: Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
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by Joker6067 on 04-16-2007 03:10 PM
[url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117450/[/url]
This movie never went to theatres. It was an HBO movie but it is a great movie none the less.
Don Cheadle stars as Earl Manigault, a street basketball legend in New york that flushed his life away because of drugs...
im doing a project on the media representation of female serial killers...if any of you could answer these questions i would be very grateful. (presuming you've seen the films)
Do you feel that to an extent the character Aileen Wuornos was over-glamourised in the film monster?
Do you feel that the film natural born killers makes the life of a female serial killer seem something to be desired?
Does it seem like media representation of the Aileen Wournos was alot more harsh than the film?
