11.   Charles R. Jackson, who wrote the novel on which the film was based, stopped by for years afterward.

12.   Directing stylishly, but without first-timer fuss, Noonan based the film on his stage play.

13.   Gottlieb got the writing credit, along with Peter Benchley, on whose novel the film was based.

14.   He looks and sounds right as the tough New York street cop on whose story the film is based.

15.   He stressed that the film was not based on any specific event in his own life.

16.   In what promises to become an increasingly common phenomenon, two upcoming films are based on popular video games.

17.   It came with the book on which their film is based, say the creators of the just-released drama.

18.   It certainly hurts that the film is based on a story by Mickey Spillane, the least mysterious of mystery writers.

19.   Klapisch decided to base the film on an ordeal experienced by one of his friends.

20.   Jesper Salen plays young Roland Schutt, on whose semi-autobiographical novel the film is based.