A review by eyelit
Based on a True Story: Fact and Fantasy in 100 Favorite Movies by Jonathan Vankin

3.0

I would have liked this a lot more had the authors treated the subject in a less judgmental manner. It was sometimes hard to glean fact from the incessantly derisive commentary (the subject pretty much speaks for itself and is interesting enough without the unnecessary commentary that tended to be far too mean-spirited). I was expecting a "here's what really happened" and I got "here's why producers/directors/writers/actors are asshats when it comes to adapting true accounts to film" which, fair enough, is often the case... but still... more fact and less judgment would have made the book more enjoyable to me.