The director Bennett Miller, "largely shaking off the official art-house pretensions of his breakout feature, 'Capote,' takes all this seemingly dry, dusty, inside-baseball stuff and turns it into the kind of all-too-rare pleasurable Hollywood diversion that gives you a contact high," Ms. Dargis said of this fictionalized adaptation of the book by Michael Lewis.
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION (1993), Fred Schepisi's film of John Guare's fictionalized adaptation of the David Hampton story, starring Will Smith as the charming con man.
7 P.M. (FX) MONEYBALL (2011) Brad Pitt, below, received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics who transformed the team — with one of the lowest payrolls in baseball — into a contender against wealthier franchises by rethinking everything he had been taught about the game in this fictionalized adaptation of the book by Michael Lewis.
1 45 P.M. (Starz) MONEYBALL (2011) Brad Pitt received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics who transformed the team — one of the poorest in baseball — into a contender against wealthier franchises by rethinking everything he had been taught about the game in this fictionalized adaptation of the book by Michael Lewis.
In Adaptation, Nic Cage plays a fictionalized version of Charlie Kaufman who, struggling to write his new script, winds up at a McKee seminar in search of something that'll get him through his third act.
Mandy Patinkin plays a fictionalized version of Levin, whose stage adaptation of the diary was rejected in favor of the version written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, which became a long-running Broadway hit.
Miranda Callendar (Meera Syal), a detective employed by Claire, learns about Hyde and informs Jackman that Jekyll and Hyde was not fiction, but a fictionalized version of actual events.
In addition to his stage work, McKellen appeared in a number of motion pictures, notably a film version of David Hare's Plenty (1985) and Richard III (1995), an adaptation of Shakespeare's play that is set in a fictionalized version of England in the 1930s; McKellen also cowrote the screenplay.
"It's a fictionalized version of my life," he said.
In fact, much of the movie is a fictionalized version of events.
