Truth truly is stranger than fiction. Had Peter Jackson tried to make a film about two fictional '50s school girls immersing themselves in a fantasy world populated by life-sized clay figures then bashing in one of their mum's heads with a brick, there'd have been more arched eyebrows than a roomful of Kate Winslets. But the story was a true one, and Heavenly Creatures was made. Similarly, would Hollywood have come up with the fictional tale of a pornographer (hospitalised and wheelchair-bound by an unknown assailant's bullet), his out-of-control, AIDS-infected bisexual girlfriend and the massive porn empire he established? It's doubtful. But that was a true story as well, as The People Vs Larry Flynt can testify.
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