8 movies where reality was cooler than fiction

We all sometimes feel tired or unhappy with our lives.

Website He has collected films based on true stories that prove that nothing is impossible, and the human willpower is ready to withstand thousands of tests.

The End of the Tour, 2015







Starring: Jason Siegel, Jesse Eisenberg, Joan Cusack

The plot is based on a book by Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky, telling about a 5-day interview with David Foster Wallace during a tour organized in support of the novel “Endless Joke”. Anyway, the interview was never published, and the heroes themselves never met again.

• IMDb rating - 7.3

Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)







Starring: Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo

The film tells the story of Cameron, who after a break with his family tries to restore relations. The hero has a manic-depressive psychosis, his wife Maggie tries to support two daughters, but she has to finish her studies in another city, and she decides to leave the children with her father.

• IMDb rating - 7.0

Tracks trails, 2013







Starring: Mia Wasikowski

The script of the film “Trails” was based on the true story of an Australian traveler named Robin Davidson. The young girl left close people, friends, cozy measured life of an average Australian woman and went on a multi-day journey across the continent in the company of 4 camels and dogs.

• IMDb rating - 7.2

Rabbit-Proof Fence, 2002







Starring: Everlin Sampi, Tiana Sunsbury, Laura Monaghan

At the beginning of the last century, white Australians tried to use the natives for their domestic needs. To this end, special schools were set up in which girls were trained as servants in wealthy families of white immigrants. From such a school, 3 girls run back to their home, which is now fifteen hundred miles away.

• IMDb rating - 7.5

The Butler, 2013







Starring: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey

In the center of the film is the life of the butler Eugene Allen, who worked for more than 20 years in the White House and served under 8 presidents. Only here is an African-American butler, and the formation of his career takes place during the struggle for the rights and freedom of black people.

• IMDb rating - 7.2

Remember the Titans, 2000







Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris

The high school football coach retires and in return invites a new African-American coach, and many of the team's white players boycott games and training until their former coach agrees to take the assistant position. But this is only the first obstacle to the state championship.

• IMDb rating - 7.8

Soloist, The Soloist, 2009







Starring:Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey - Jr.

The film is based on the life story of young and talented musician Nathaniel Ayers, whose career was interrupted due to the development of schizophrenia. The film will show us the life of Nathaniel through the eyes of Steve Lopez, a Los Angeles Times journalist who writes several articles about him and, having penetrated, begins to help him.

• IMDb rating - 6.7

The Story of Antoine Fisher, 2002







Starring: Derek Luke, Denzel Washington

Antoine Fisher is a security guard at Sony Pictures, who became famous as a screenwriter. However, he used to be a sailor, decommissioned because of his overly aggressive behavior. Fisher decides to find the parents who abandoned him in infancy. But during the search, his life does not change for the better.

• IMDb rating - 7.3

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