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AT THE MOVIES #699       HOW REAL DO YOU WANT IT?

Simon Morris is reminded of the limitations of “based on real life” by three fact-based movies.

American Made stars Tom Cruise as the real-life pilot Barry Seal, who worked for both the CIA and the drug barons in the Eighties.

In Between shows the life of three Palestinian women in Israel, torn between modern club-life and the values of their parents.

And An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power is how global-warming activist Al Gore tries to achieve consensus at the Paris climate change conference in 2016.