Is this based on a true story?
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nihilistdude2000 — 20 years ago(May 21, 2005 08:20 AM)
I heard the guy who wrote this had this stuff really happen to him - yes/no?
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wallacesawyer — 20 years ago(May 24, 2005 02:12 PM)
Well the back of the movie case should cover the story. It says based on a true story, but it also says "it was inspired by an incident John Murlowski experienced in January 1983".
Possibly some one tried to run him over but he hurry out of there.
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sixpackrt — 20 years ago(June 14, 2005 08:25 AM)
Actually, I've heard this also and since I saw the film on cable one day and have been curious ever since to know how much of it actually happened. I e-mailed a fan site for the movie and the guy didn't answer me. But the US DVD which recently came out has a commentary by Murlowksi so I'm going to pick it up and see if he tells the tale.
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sixpackrt — 20 years ago(June 21, 2005 05:36 PM)
Well, I got the DVD and watched the commentary track. Murlowski is on the track with two other guys who ask him about the true story and at first he says something about "not wanting too much to compare film to reality" or something but as the track goes on he lets on about more and more. Him and his buddies were coming home from drinking out where they wouldn't get carded. He never says whether it was a fight over a girl or what but he said "there was a cop, there was a girl and a brother of a girl" and apparently some others aiding the brother and "yeah they chased us home, it took three hours and they chased us home." He says no one died in reality but he does believe the guys were out to harm him and his friends. He said that just like in the film they turned off their lights and tried to hide several times and drive from one side of the lake to the other and every time they thought they had lost the guys, there was the car with it's "yellow" headlights. At one point they watched the guys from hiding and they were walking around with knives. He never says what the outcome of the situation was in terms of when they realized they were safe but
oh and also the car the friends are driving is supposedly the exact same make and color but the car the anatagonists were driving was in reality a "60's Lincoln".
It's worth picking up the disc if you are interested in hearing Murlowski tell of his adventure.
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