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Title: Films dealing with your personal history?
Post by: Trevor on March 11, 2024, 01:20:06 PM
For me, there are several.

SHANGANI PATROL
THE WHISPERING DEATH
GAME FOR VULTURES
THE GRASS IS SINGING
SHAMWARI
FLAME

All movies made in or about Rhodesia, my birth country 😊
Title: Re: Films dealing with your personal history?
Post by: RCMerchant on March 11, 2024, 02:23:35 PM
the LOST WEEKEND (1945) and DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (1962) are both about alchoholism.

I never went through bad withdraws like Ray Milland or Jack Lemmon did, but it could be bad at times.



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Title: Re: Films dealing with your personal history?
Post by: indianasmith on March 11, 2024, 02:33:41 PM
They did a little, low-budget film series based on my exploits.
Of course, they changed my name to "Indiana Jones."   :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Title: Re: Films dealing with your personal history?
Post by: Trevor on March 11, 2024, 02:49:38 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on March 11, 2024, 02:33:41 PM
They did a little, low-budget film series based on my exploits.
Of course, they changed my name to "Indiana Jones."   :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

😂😂🐢
Title: Re: Films dealing with your personal history?
Post by: M.10rda on March 13, 2024, 06:05:31 PM
I've mentioned some of the following before, but:

I saw Christian Slater in HEATHERS when I was 11 or 12 and thought, "I want to be that guy."

I tried to become that guy, but alas, about four years later I saw Donovan Leitch in CUTTING CLASS and Martin Donovan in TRUST and decided I'd actually become those guys. (Hence my profile pic.)

April '99, a Senior in college, I saw RUSHMORE for the first-time on the tail-end of its theatrical run. I had finally started to reflect a little more realistically on my high school experience, and... well, Max Fischer in RUSHMORE is a pretty accurate biographical depiction in many regards. (Obv purely incidental, but accurate!) After a couple more viewings it became (and remains) my favorite film.
Title: Re: Films dealing with your personal history?
Post by: Jim H on March 16, 2024, 03:49:59 PM
Northville Cemetary Massacre.  I'm from this Northville, spent my first 18 years there, which is a town of about 6000 people in Michigan.  Just weird our town even features in a single movie like that, just real small.  I actually haven't seen it, really should. 

If you're ever in suburban Detroit, I will say Northville is pretty nice.  Maybe not worth going out of your way for, it's small, but it has preserved Victorian houses and a pretty cute main street area.  They throw a Victorian Festival every year which I enjoyed as a kid - got to dress up as a Victorian kid and march in a parade once.
Title: Re: Films dealing with your personal history?
Post by: The Burgomaster on July 24, 2024, 10:15:41 AM
* JACKASS: THE MOVIE
* THE JERK
* DUMB & DUMBER
Title: Re: Films dealing with your personal history?
Post by: FatFreddysCat on July 28, 2024, 10:20:28 AM
I guess the closest would be Kevin Smith's Clerks, because in the early '90s I was also a surly twenty something from New Jersey with a mind numbing, dead-end retail job, just like Randall and Dante. It was honestly the first time I'd ever seen a movie that "spoke" to me, sad as that sounds.  :teddyr:
Title: Re: Films dealing with your personal history?
Post by: Trevor on July 28, 2024, 10:30:59 AM
Quote from: The Burgomaster on July 24, 2024, 10:15:41 AM* JACKASS: THE MOVIE
* THE JERK
* DUMB & DUMBER


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Title: Re: Films dealing with your personal history?
Post by: Trevor on July 28, 2024, 10:32:07 AM
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on July 28, 2024, 10:20:28 AMI guess the closest would be Kevin Smith's Clerks, because in the early '90s I was also a surly twenty something from New Jersey with a mind numbing, dead-end retail job, just like Randall and Dante. It was honestly the first time I'd ever seen a movie that "spoke" to me, sad as that sounds.  :teddyr:

😊😊🐢
Title: Re: Films dealing with your personal history?
Post by: RCMerchant on July 28, 2024, 10:49:41 AM
I was with Verne Troyer in rehab (2007) and he told me about a movie he was going to make called POSTAL, and he did too.  He was from Kalamazoo-about 20 miles from Lawton.

Trevor's hero Uwe Boll directed it.