The Life of David Gale

This this Movie and Book (which is Good, reading right now)
haven’t seen the Movie yet, is it based on a real person and events. Or is it just fiction - albeit good.

Lately, I have been interested in Movies that are taken from real life, like Catch me If You Can and A Beautiful mind.

Anyone know.

The Life of David Gale is entirely fictional. Much more information, discussion, and spoilers are available in this thread.

Ebert gave The Life of David Gale zero stars. It’s pulling something like 15% on the tomatometer, too.

Catch Me if You Can and A Beautiful Mind bare as much resemblence to reality as a photograph of Jerry Falwell blazing up a joint while jerking off to gay porn. They were still pretty good, though.