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Part morality tale, part prison crime drama, part culture-shock with a young American held in a Turkish prison, the story is told with such conviction and painstaking detail as to be both heralded for its truthfulness and condemned for being a racist diatribe against an entire country. Alan Parker’s film, based on the non-fiction book by William Hayes (the protagonist of the story) with William Hoffer, was sold as “based on a true story” but there was plenty of meddling with the truth between Parker and then burgeoning screenwriter Oliver Stone (who won an Oscar for his script). Continue reading →