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  1. May 4, 1990 · Screenplay by. James Hicks. I know how I'm expected to feel when informed that a movie has been "based on a true story." I'm supposed to feel solemn in the presence of a real person's real experiences - which are, it is implied, somehow more significant and more authentic than the fictional adventures usually retailed on the screen.

  2. In this fact-based film, Emmett Foley (Gary Oldman) returns from Korea a hero, but when he cannot find gainful employment outside of the service, he decides the best way to provide for his wife...

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  3. Chattahoochee is a 1989 American drama film directed by Mick Jackson and starring Gary Oldman and Dennis Hopper. The film is based on the real-life experiences of Chris Calhoun in a Florida state mental institution. Calhoun later met James Hicks who wrote the script.

  4. Apr 20, 1990 · Chattahoochee: Directed by Mick Jackson. With Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand, Pamela Reed. In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.

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    • Mick Jackson
    • 1990-04-20
  5. R. Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper and Oscar® winner* Frances McDormand star in this passionately acted and frighteningly real "triumph-over-adversity story" (Screen International) made all the more ...

  6. Apr 20, 1990 · Well, actors thrive on challenge and Oldman conquers every one that “Chattahoochee” throws at him (it’s MPAA-rated R for brutality and madhouse menace), including acting through a beard ...

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  8. Sep 10, 2012 · Committed to the maximum-security Chattahoochee hospital for the criminally insane, he finds himself trapped in a nightmare world of squalor, humiliation and sadism.

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