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Based on a True Story
Some of Hollywood’s most unbelievable new films spring from real events
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
In theaters • October 20
In the 1920s, the world’s wealthiest people per capita were Oklahoma’s oil-rich Osage Native Americans—but cattle baron William “King” Hale (played by Robert De Niro, 80) had a plan to murder and rob them, and perhaps his dimwitted nephew (Leonardo DiCaprio, 48) was mixed up in it. It was the first big case for FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, and now it’s a 3½-hour prestige movie by Martin Scorsese, 80.
Based on David Grann’s book on Hale and the Osage murders
PAIN HUSTLERS
On Netflix • October 27
Emily Blunt plays a desperate single mom recruited by a pharmaceutical firm to hawk deadly drugs in a racketeering scheme. Among her costars are Catherine O’Hara, 69, and Andy Garcia, 67.
Inspired by the Insys Therapeutics scandal
PRISCILLA
In theaters • October 27
Over-50 viewers helped make the film Elvis a $288 million hit. Now the icon’s widow, Priscilla Presley, 78, along with cowriter-director Sofia Coppola, 52, tells her side of the legendary love story, with Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi as the Presleys.
Based on Priscilla’s memoir Elvis and Me
ORDINARY ANGELS
In theaters • October 13
A recovering-alcoholic hairstylist in Kentucky (played by Hilary Swank, 49) rallies her townsfolk to get a widower (Alan Ritchson) and his 3-year-old daughter to Omaha, Nebraska, for a liver transplant on the stormiest day in Louisville history. —Tim Appelo
Based on Sharon Stevens’ heroic story