True Story. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 2005 book
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True Story
Michael Finkel, 2005
movie vs book
Rupert Goold, 2015

In 2001, Christian Longo, an Oregon man whose wife and three children have been discovered murdered, is arrested by police in Mexico, where he had been identifying himself as a reporter for the New York Times named Michael Finkel. He is confronted by his editors about a story he has written which featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine.