It's not the "true story" people!

Rating: 8/10 (19 April 2008)

Okay, it's a good movie, I've got to admit but these repeated reviewers who add an excited "True story!" thing to their comments are way off base. About 70% of the events in this movie didn't happen in real life and we've got to remember that this movie is "based" on actual events. I need to clarify some things about Lisa Rowe. She wasn't regarded as the authority over the girls in the ward in real life. She had about as much power and influence in the book as the other girls in the ward had. And there's no way she had keys to everything in the ward. No one could! If a psych patient had one key, let alone keys to everything, the staff would find out and turn her room upside down until they found it. Lisa never said anything to Daisy to push her over the edge. Daisy went over on her own. The girls never went into the tunnels to play bowling and never sneaked into the office to read their files. Lisa and Suzanne never escaped the hospital and went to Daisy's house. Lisa never got a hold of Suzanne's journal and read it to the other girls. And speaking of that, Suzanne didn't say the nasty things about the other girls in her journal that she says here. Much of her comments about them were complimentary. Lisa did escape but was never gone for more than a couple days. Lisa never drugged a nurse and never became homicidal! If Lisa Rowe did the things she does in this movie in real life, she would've spent the majority of her time in maximum security. If you like the movie, great, but please stop saying it's the "true story".