20 ‘True Story’ Movies That Were Full of Baloney

Hollywood loves a biopic, mostly because it means they don’t have to come up with a new idea. They just have to read a memoir, figure out which actor most closely resembles a much hotter version of them and pay a pittance for their life story, and it’s halfway to Oscarville. The only problem is that sometimes a person’s life just isn’t that interesting, or they’re actually a nightmare trash person, so Hollywood has to spice/nice it up.

“My pick would be P.T Barnum in The (Greatest) Showman,” Redditor NotASynth499 told r/Movies. “In the movie, he is a wholesome and tolerant guy who loves his freaks, while in real life, he was basically a slave driver.” They then asked for Redditors’ choices for the “most inaccurate biopic ever,” and their responses couldn’t have been any more accurate.

20 Invincible

19 Remember the Titans

18 Hidalgo

17 The Babe Ruth Story

16 The Sound of Music

15 The Imitation Game

14 American Sniper

13 Moneyball

12 The Irishman

11 The Revenant

10 Straight Outta Compton

9 Cool Runnings

8 Papillon

7 Good Morning, Vietnam

6 Bohemian Rhapsody

5 Bloodsport

4 Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

3 Rudy

2 Amadeus

1 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter