Was this a true story

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The General's Daughter

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pvalles_72 — 19 years ago(August 10, 2006 05:45 AM)

This movie is pretty powerful, and tells you what a state the armed forces are in.
At the end it came up with some footnotes, and normally these are put when it is a true account.
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vinsane17 — 19 years ago(August 21, 2006 03:09 PM)

i doubt it was a true story.
But, its possible, and if something like this happened, im sure you would hear about it.

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pvalles_72 — 19 years ago(August 30, 2006 02:53 AM)

Thanks for clearing that up
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travisscrutchfield — 19 years ago(February 10, 2007 10:01 AM)

This was not a true story. It was based on a book by Neslon DeMille.

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MisterKyle — 18 years ago(May 18, 2007 06:53 AM)

Maybe it was an extreme composite with great dramatic license of all the sexual assault cases that are reported on military academies and with active duty personel.
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ragreen259 — 18 years ago(August 19, 2007 11:09 AM)

"At the end it came up with some footnotes, and normally these are put when it is a true account."
You mean like in Animal House, American Graffitti and Kelly's Heroes?

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Tommy N — 17 years ago(May 30, 2008 01:13 AM)

I came on-line just to find out this question. Is it true or memorex?
Frankly speaking, tghe only reason I went to see this movie in the theater when it first came out was because of the return of Madeline Stowe, who had taken a hiatus from movie making. Great looking gal, pretty good actress when given a good part, etc. To think of this ending, where they want to make you think its a true story, well, I find it completely disingenious; typical for such crummy movie.
Over-acting reigned supreme in this movie. Including Travolta and Stowe.

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GalitMirav — 17 years ago(December 07, 2008 04:47 PM)

I've read on several sites that's it's based on a true story. Here's one:
http://www.geocities.com/~polfilms/general.html

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Zombie55 — 14 years ago(November 02, 2011 06:08 PM)

It was based on a novel, that I heard itself was
loosely
based on a true story!

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Pyromania — 13 years ago(May 26, 2012 11:47 AM)

Kind of like Texas Chainsaw Massacre was "based on a true story"? (i.e. butchered to the point that the original story is virtually unrecognizable)
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spookyrat1 — 12 years ago(May 25, 2013 02:02 AM)

I read the novel quite a while back but I don't recall anything indicating that "The General's Daughter" was based on true events.