What Actually Happened To 15 People We Made Movies About

Here’s what else happened to the people we made movies about.
What Actually Happened To 15 People We Made Movies About

We love movies based on true stories. We see the human drama play out, knowing that someone somewhere actually live through all of what we are seeing on the screen (well, a version of it, anyway). When the movie ends, we feel a catharsis, seeing the story come to a conclusion whether or not it was a “happily ever after.” The thing is, the people in those movies go on having lives, after the credits roll and the story wraps up. 

Remember the Titans? Some of the players in later seasons want to forget the coach. Oskar Schindler? He needed some help after the events of Schindler's List. The house in The Conjuring? Now haunted by tourism.

We asked Cracked readers to chase down some of the real people behind famous movies, and find out what else happened to them, after the events that they're famous for ended. These are their findings.

CRACKEDCON CONJURING THE is based on a real haunted house in Rhode Island... And its current owner Norma Sutcliffe is now constantly haunted by fans
UNBROKEN Unbroken tells the story of Louis Zamperini, a former olympic runner and army lieutenantthat survived forty seven days at sea and years in a
Ten years after severing his own arm to save himselffrom certain death, Aron Ralston's inspiring story was turned into a major motion picture. Three y
After exhausting his fortune during the war, Oskar Schindler heavily relied on Jewish aid for much of the rest of his life. SCHINDLIRS sbaa98 LIST CRA
Midnight Express depicts the brutal acts of Turkish law enforcement on Billy Hayes, who was arrested for smuggling drugs. Decades after the release of
What Actually Happened To 15 People We Made Movies About
THE GREAT RIVALRIES OF OF ALL ONE TIME. GAME -WALTER DAY, VIDEO REFEREE KING OF KONG THE O Billy Mitchel of The King of Kong fame was stripped of all

Awakenings

Dr. Oliver Sacks, the psychiatrist whose memoir, Awakenings, was filmed in 1990, ROBERT DE NIRO ROBIN WILLIAMS Nominated for Three Aicademey AWards me
The child chess prodigy from Searching for Bobby Fischer grew up to be a martial arts champion. a Joshua Waitzkin got into Tai Chi at 21, and won a Ta
At the GIRL, INTERRUPTED end of Susanna (played by Winona Ryder) leaves.the psychiatric ward with a renewed sense of self and a clear understanding of
CRACKED CON The Blind Side is a film about a 74 real-life football player Michael Oher who was adopted by a woman named Leigh Anne Tuohy. IpIPaSo Beca
CRACKEDCON Jordan Belfort is spending his post prison days giving motivational speeches and NOT repaying his previous victims, even LEONARDO DICAPRIO
T.E. Lawrence, the subject of Lawrence of Arabia, was an A-list celebrity and Britain's greatest war hero in the 1920s. And he gave up his fame, fortu
What Actually Happened To 15 People We Made Movies About
Good Morning Vietnam made Adrian Cronauer (played by Robin Williams) financially secure enough to start a new career as a lawyer. In 2014 he allowed t
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