21.   Krane says the arrangement with Author Services is standard practice, as rights holders normally receive a cut of merchandising when a film is based on their work.

22.   Leelee Sobieski shines as his sensitive daughter, upon whose loving memoir the film is based.

23.   Molinaro partly based the film on an unpublished play by Sacha Guitry but noted that the material had no dramatic structure and remained a series of historical vignettes.

24.   Of course, we know from the book on which the film is based that Beverly did become a writer.

25.   Several years ago, he sent his son the novel on which the film is based, telling him he was born to play the part.

26.   So consider Francie Brady, the rambunctious hero of the novel by Patrick McCabe on which this strange, astonishing film is based.

27.   Spielberg based his film on the story of the four Niland brothers of Tonawanda, N.Y.

28.   Still, the knowledge that a film is based on real events, however loosely, imparts an extra jolt.

29.   Tackling the sensitive issue of race relations was made easier because the film is based on a true story, Bruckheimer says.

30.   The curse is that moviegoers may be too saturated with real-life events to see a film based on them.