It's an energetically researched tale based on one of the back stories to the crash of 2008: bankers' hiring of physicists to devise hugely complex trading programs that few really understand, and those new strategies running dangerously amok.
THE INTOUCHABLES A wealthy, paralyzed Parisian (François Cluzet) befriends his Senegalese caretaker (Omar Sy) in a life-affirming tale, based on a true story, from France, where it was one of last year's biggest hits.
My number one piece of Finnish music is Sibelius's Kullervo, an everyday tale (based on the national epic) of incest, murder and suicide.
* "A Bronx Tale," based on the 1993 movie.
More generally, the phrase may refer to a tale based on imagination rather than fact.
In 2003, his show Tocororo: A Cuban Tale, based on his childhood, broke box office records.
In its turn Hollywood produced "Lord of War", a fictional tale based on stories of his gun-running.
The tale, based on real incidents, documents a group of Dust Bowl farmers and their growing frustration over the lack of a government response to their plight.
The other standout piece was Poul Ruders's Oboe Concerto, composed in 1998 shortly after his gripping opera "The Handmaid's Tale," based on the Margaret Atwood science-fiction chiller.
In the dystopian tale, based on a novella by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521, a street sweeper, dares to defy his totalitarian rulers and think for himself.
He mastered the tale based on apocryphal references and sources and programmatically rejected long fiction, declaring that some novels are as boring as life itself.
