The Hollywood Version:
It seems that back in the '70s, there was a plucky little football player who dreamed of nothing other than playing for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Unfortunately for young Rudy, his support system consisted of people who went out of their way to point out his flaws, of which there were many, and let him know repeatedly that dreams are the main ingredient in the devil's pudding.

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In reality ...
The real life Dan Devine was actually the one who insisted on playing Rudy in his final game. Hell, even when the movie was being made, Devine gave the filmmakers permission to turn him into the film's villain in order to help Rudy, who he considered a good friend.

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By the way, ever wonder who saw Rudy play that day and got so inspired he just had to make it into a movie? Nobody. It was Rudy himself who spent a full decade trying to convince studios that his life was so awesome it deserved a movie, before one of them finally relented. That's the spirit, little guy!

 

 

 

http://www.cracked.com/article_16478_7-movies-based-on-true-story-that-are-complete-bullshit.html 

 A couple of others:

 

Mississippi Burning

The Rookie

Rainman

 

Does Passion of the Christ count? 

Dont forget about Return Of The Living Dead.

They displayed the "Based on a true story..."

 

HAHA

I LOVE THAT MOVIE!

BRAINS!!!

texas chain saw massacre 

one of the reasons i didn't see 21 (aside from bad reviews)

 

If there's anything we can learn from 21, it's that Hollywood won't give an Asian man a starring role unless it calls for someone who can do karate while getting berated by Chris Tucker.

In fact, 21 gives us perhaps the greatest whitewash in recent Hollywood history--a broad, sweeping stroke of Caucasian across the majority of the cast.

The real MIT Blackjack Team was almost totally Asian, but you'd never know that from the film.

 

Hey, remember how Hostel was "inspired by real events"  and how that phrase actually meant that Eli Roth came across some random Thai website advertising "murder vacations?"

haha that's awesome!  the movie was not.

I actually liked it.  Mostly because I love gore.  The sequel was even better.  That Elizabeth Bathory rip-off scene was great.  Oh, and watching Heather Matarazzo suffer is always extremely gratifying. 

I haven't seen any of those movies. They look like they suck. 

 

And Texas Chainsaw Massacre was not based in a true story. I watched a  TV special  on some channel that told me so. 

 

 

I think the character of Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw movies is partly based on Ed Gein.

Oh, yeah.  Wolf Creek, too. 

i liked wolf creek.