Sentence examples for based on an autobiographical from inspiring English sources

It is based on an autobiographical novel by Jie Liu-Falin.

(He is a successful dramatist: the movie is based on an autobiographical play by Jean-Luc Lagarce, who died of Aids in 1995).

While Accidentally On Purpose is based on an autobiographical book by Mary Pols it bears more than a passing resemblance to Judd Apatow's movie about an unlikely coupling and subsequent unplanned pregnancy.

Based on an autobiographical novel by Robert Bober, a French writer and filmmaker who worked as an assistant director on a few early François Truffaut features, "Almost Peaceful" opens in the summer of 1946.

Mr. Nemec graduated in 1960, earning his diploma after making the film "A Piece of Bread," based on an autobiographical short story by Arnost Lustig about three prisoners being transported by train from one concentration camp to another and plotting their escape.

"Miral," Julian Schnabel's fourth feature film, based on an autobiographical novel by Rula Jebreal (who wrote the screenplay), recounts the linked and partial life stories of four Palestinian women, beginning in the last days of the British mandate and ending in the 1990s, when it looked as if peace between Israelis and Palestinians might finally be on the horizon.

This is a one-man play based on a palpably autobiographical novel by the late Richard Rive, who was murdered in 1989.

Learning to Drive is based on a short autobiographical short story by Katha Pollit, a long-time political columnist for the Nation.

Being Charlie, the newest film from Rob Reiner based on a somewhat autobiographical screenplay by his son Nick, puts all the others to shame for making teenage drug addiction look so appealing.

It is based on a largely autobiographical novel by his daughter, KAYLIE JONES, who was at the screening to welcome some of her father's literary colleagues, including ARTHUR MILLER, NORMAN MAILER (author of another World War II novel, "The Naked and the Dead"), PETER MATTHIESSEN, KURT VONNEGUT and WILLIAM STYRON.

On the surface it is a nostalgic study of a small western town, based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Joe David Brown.