# Was "Black Cadillac" based on a true story?

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**Created:** [May 26, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-black-cadillac-based-on-a-true-story/305594 "2005-05-26T13:49:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Douggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Douggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Douggy)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-black-cadillac-based-on-a-true-story/305594/1 "2005-05-26T13:49:48Z")

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In the movie _Black Cadillac_ (made in 2001/2002 directed by John Murlowski) a group of high school kids go on a roadtrip from Minnesota to Wisconsin, and are terrorised by a savage Caddy driver _a la_ S.Spielberg’s _Duel_.

Now at the beggining of the movie we are told that this is based on a true story. Somehow, I have a difficult time believing that there was some (seemingly) omniscient Caddy driver who was hunting down a group of schoolboys for kicks. I mean, the way they show it in the movie, there’s just no way that some dude could have plotted all that in the space of time the movie alludes to. And you’d assume that if it _was_ a true story then it couldn’t realistically have been over more than one whole day that all these events occured.

So what’s the deal here? Just how true a story is it?

What exactly is it based on?

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**Author:** ![Douggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Douggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Douggy)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-black-cadillac-based-on-a-true-story/305594/2 "2005-05-27T15:20:10Z")

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Knew I could come up with a Q nobody could answer.