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Tag Archives: true story
Public Enemies (2009)
Director: Michael Mann Writers: Ronan Bennett and Michael Mann & Ann Biderman (Based on the book “Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34” by Bryan Burrough)
Posted in Action, Crime, Drama
Tagged 1930s, 2009, action, adaptation, agent, ann biderman, baby face nelson, bank, bank robbers, bank robbery, bill camp, billy crudup, bryan burrough, carey mulligan, channing tatum, christian bale, cop, crime, crime wave, dante spinotti, david wenham, diana krall, drama, elliot goldenthal, emilie de ravin, fbi, gangster, giovanni ribisi, government, great depression, heist, historical, history, hostage, investigation, j. edgar hoover, jason clarke, jeffrey ford, john dillinger, john ortiz, johnny depp, kevin misher, leelee sobieski, mafia, manhunt, marion cotillard, michael mann, money, numbers, paul rubell, police, pretty boy floyd, public enemies, ronan bennett, shootout, stephen dorff, stephen graham, stephen lang, true story, vault
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Silkwood (1983)
Director: Mike Nichols Writers: Nora Ephron & Alice Arlen
Posted in Drama, Thriller
Tagged 1983, accident, alice arlen, biography, bruce mcgill, cancer, car accident, car crash, charles hallahan, cher, craig t. nelson, david strathairn, diana scarwid, drama, fred ward, gay, georges delerue, graham jarvis, james rebhorn, josef sommer, journalism, journalist, karen silkwood, kurt russell, lesbian, m. emmet walsh, meryl streep, michael hausman, mike nichols, miroslav ondricek, murder, new york times, nora ephron, nuclear power, oklahoma, plutonium, radiation, radioactive, ron silver, safety, sam o'steen, silkwood, thriller, true story, union, washington d.c., work, worker
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The Insider (1999)
Director: Michael Mann Writers: Eric Roth & Michael Mann (Based on the Vanity Fair article “The Man Who Knew Too Much” by Marie Brenner) Great!
Posted in Drama, Thriller
Tagged 1999, 60 minutes, adaptation, al pacino, biography, bracken meyer, brown & williamson, bruce mcgill, cancer, cbs, christopher plummer, cigarettes, colm feore, corporation, court, dante spinotti, david rosenbloom, debi mazar, diane venora, eric roth, gina gershon, interview, jeffrey wigand, journalism, journalist, kentucky, lawyer, lindsay crouse, lisa gerrard, lowell bergman, marie brenner, michael gambon, michael mann, mike wallace, nda, news, paul rubell, philip baker hall, pieter bourke, pieter jan brugge, producer, rip torn, russell crowe, school, science, scientist, smoking, stephen tobolowsky, teacher, television, the insider, the man who knew too much, tobacco, true story, tv, vanity fair, whistleblower, william goldenberg
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Richard Jewell (2019)
Director: Clint Eastwood Writer: Billy Ray (Based on the Vanity Fair article “American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell” by Marie Brenner) (Based on the book “The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Drama
Tagged adaptation, American nightman, atlanta, billy ray, biography, bomb, bomber, bombing, clint eastwood, crime, drama, fbi, georgia, ian gomez, investigation, jennifer davisson, jessica meier, jon hamm, jonah hill, journalist, kathy bates, kenny rogers, kent alexander, kevin misher, kevin salwen, lawyer, leonardo dicaprio, media, mike pniewski, newspaper, nina arianda, olivia wilde, olympics, park, paul walter hauser, richard jewell, sam rockwell, television, terrorism, terrorist, the ballad of richard jewell, the suspect, tim moore, true story, vanity fair
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Detroit (2017)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow Writer: Mark Boal Very intense.
Posted in Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tagged 1960s, 1967, 2017, abuse, algae smith, anthony mackie, ben o'tooler, colin wilson, cops, court, crime, detroit, detroit riots, drama, hannah murray, history, hotel, jack reynor, james newton howard, jason mitchell, jeremy strong, john boyega, john krasinski, kaitlyn dever, kathryn bigelow, lawyer, mark boal, matthew budman, megan ellison, michigan, miguel, motel, murder, musician, national guard, police, racism, racist, riot, samira wiley, security guard, singer, thriller, torture, true story, tyler james williams, will poulter
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K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow Writer: Christopher Kyle (Story by Louis Nowra)
Posted in Drama, Thriller, War
Tagged 1960s, 2002, boat, captain, christine whitaker, christopher kyle, crew, disaster, drama, edward s. feldman, harrison ford, history, k-19, k-19: the widowmaker, k19, kathryn bigelow, liam neeson, louis nowra, malfunction, matthias deyle, north atlantic, nuclear, nuke, peter sarsgaard, radioactive, richard nixon, russia, russian, ship, sigurjon sighvatsson, submarine, the widowmaker, thriller, true story, ussr, war, weapon
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The End of the Tour (2015)
Director: James Ponsoldt Writer: Donald Margulies (Based on the book “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself” by David Lipsky)
Posted in Comedy, Drama
Tagged 2015, adaptation, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, anna chlumsky, author, beck ann baker, book tour, comedy, danny elfman, david foster wallace, david lipsky, donald margulies, drama, infinite jest, interview, james ponsoldt, jason segel, jesse eisenberg, joan cusack, journalism, journalist, mamie gummer, novelist, reporter, rolling stone, ron livingston, the end of the tour, true story, writer
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Bombshell (2019)
Director: Jay Roach Writer: Charles Randolph
Posted in Drama
Tagged 2019, aaron l. gilbert, abuse, alice eve, allison janney, amy landecker, anchor, ashley greene, beth kono, bill o'reilly, biography, bombshell, brigette lundy-paine, charles randolph, charlize theron, chris wallace, connie britton, correspondent, d'arcy carden, drama, fox news, geraldo rivera, greta van susteren, gretchen carlson, jay roach, jeanine pirro, john lithgow, jon gabrus, journalism, journalist, kate mckinnon, lawsuit, liv hewson, malcolm mcdowell, margaret riley, margot robbie, mark duplass, mark moses, megyn kelly, michelle graham, neil cavuto, network, news, nicole kidman, p.j. byrne, richard kind, rob delaney, robert graf, robin weigert, roger ailes, rudy giuliani, rupert murdoch, scandal, sean hannity, sexual harassment, stephen root, television, true story, tv
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Hidden Figures (2016)
Director: Theodore Melfi Writers: Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi (Based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly)
Posted in Drama
Tagged 2016, adaptation, aldis hodge, allison schroeder, astronaut, biography, colonel, donna gigliotti, drama, gender, glen powell, government, hans zimmer, hidden figures, historical, history, janelle monae, Jenny topping, jim parsons, john f. kennedy, john glenn, kevin costner, kirsten dunst, mahershala ali, margot lee shetterly, martin luther king, math, mathematician, military, nasa, navy, octavia spencer, peter chernin, pharrell williams, race, racism, segregation, space, space race, taraji p henson, theodore melfi, true story
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