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True story set during 1924 Olympics. Four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Graduation Day: 1981 Horror Track Slasher film about school's track athletes being murdered. Personal Best: 1982 Drama Track Mariel Hemingway in fictional story of women's track and field. Running Brave: 1983 Drama 10,000 m
True Story is a 2015 American mystery thriller film that was directed by Rupert Goold in his directorial debut. It is based on a screenplay by Goold and David Kajganich.Based on the memoir of the same name by Michael Finkel, it stars Jonah Hill, James Franco and Felicity Jones, with Gretchen Mol, Betty Gilpin and John Sharian in supporting roles.
The Last Full Measure (2019) – war drama film that tells the true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen (also known as a PJ) who personally saved over sixty men and flew on almost 300 rescue missions during the war to aide downed soldiers and pilots [117] [118]
The movie tells the story of five Mexican American high schoolers — Joe Treviño, Gene Vasquez, Felipe Romero, Mario Lomas and Lupe Felan — who were caddies at a country club in Del Rio, Texas ...
The movie has eight boys on the track and field team — all first-time actors — and all are deaf, Delbert said. One character has Usher syndrome, a rare disease that affects hearing and vision ...
From the Rough is a 2011 American sports drama film based on the true story of Catana Starks, a former Tennessee State Tigers swim coach, who became the first woman ever to coach a college men’s golf team. With drive, passion, and guts, she took an unruly group of mismatched kids from around the world and guided them to an all-time record at ...
It is based on the true story of Alvin Straight's 1994 journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawn mower. The film is generally regarded as one of Lynch's more accessible and mainstream works, alongside The Elephant Man (1980). Alvin (Richard Farnsworth) is an elderly World War II veteran who lives with his daughter. When he hears that his ...
The $225,000 film reportedly became the most profitable film of 1974 (in cost-to-gross ratio), earning $18.8 million in North America [3] and over $30 million worldwide. [1] The film is docudrama in tone. Though it was presented as "a true story" to attract a wider audience, the plot and characters are entirely fictional. [4]