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Top 10 Surprising Movies Based On True Stories
Believe it or not, here are 10 movies that are really based on true stories. Some of them twisted the stories around to make them more “Hollywood” friendly for the big screen.
10. Casino
The 1995 mob, casino movie, starring Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, and Robert DeNiro, was based on a true story. Sam “Ace” Rothstein (portrayed by DeNiro) was in real life Frank “Left” Rosenthal. Unlike in the movie where the character runs only one casino, Rosenthal ran four casinos. Joe Pesci’s character Nicky was based on the life story of Anthony Spilotro. Just like in the movie, Spilotro was beaten to death and buried alive, although accounts differ on whether he was killed before burial or after.
9. 50 First Dates
The 2004 romantic movie starring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler is also based on a true story. The plot revolves around a boring guy who falls in love with a quirky woman with a disability and short term memory loss. Her memory is reset every time she falls as sleep. The disorder is due to two head injuries she endured. The film is based on the life of a British woman, Michelle Philpots, a British woman who suffered two head injuries and whose memories are wiped clean every night she sleeps.
8. Rocky Balboa
In the 1970s, there used to be a boxer named Chuck “The Bayonne Bleeder” Wepner. Movie critics argue that the movie Rocky Balboa was based on the life story of Wepner. Unlike Rocky who is from Pillly, Wepner was from New Jersey and worked as a security guard, instead of at a butcher shop. Like Rocky, he boxed a wrestler, maintained a winning record, and even faced off against Muhammed Ali. In 1977, Wepner sued Stallone, and they settled for an undisclosed amount.
7. Jaws
Jaws is a thriller film that has year after year kept many beach goers out of the oceans’ water for ever. But until now, many vacationers haven’t known the series of real-life shark attacks in 1916 that sent New Jersey’s coast into a panic and are said to have inspired the novel and subsequent movie. It started on July 1st, Canada Day across the border. A 20 something year old male swimmer off the town of Beach Haven was pulled from the water by a lifeguard. He was victim of a shark attack that had been largely unheard of happening before.
6. The Haunting in Connecticut
This 2009 horror movie created an artistic twist to the story of a family who moved into an old mortuary in the 1980’s in Connecticut, USA. Carmen Reed, who was a resident inside the home, claimed the storyline was changed to be more “Hollywood”, but there were still many disturbing truths. In the one scene when the shower curtain nearly suffocated the niece was accurate. The scene really happened, but it was Reed and not her niece trapped in the curtain. The exorcism also took place, but was downplayed in order for the film to get a PG-13 rating. The actual events were apparently too scary for Hollywood to portray.
5. The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow was a 1988 American horror film directed by Wes Craven. Surprisingly, it is based on a non-fiction book of the same name by Wes Davis. Davis retold the story of Clairvius Narcisse in Haiti, who was reportedly poisoned, buried alive, and revived with herbal brew, which made him into a zombie. Again, like in The Haunting in Connecticut, many of the real-life events were downplayed to be appropriate for the big screen.
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