Ann Rule's book, 'The Stranger Beside Me' came out waaaay before this movie was made, and it was a true story about her experience with Ted Bundy. It's very annoying to me that this movie is titled so as to make one think it's about Bundy when it is not.
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I think it is just a coincidence.
shareYeah, you are probably right. I shouldn't be so harsh and quick to pass judgment.
There is actually another movie with the same title (2003) with Billy Campbell and Barbara Hershey which is I believe the one you are referring to:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0360033/
Thanks for the info -- you are right!
Strange how movies so often duplicate one another's titles. Okay, so now I'm annoyed again, haha. ;)
It wouldn't be as much of a rip-off if the plot was different--but its practically the same!
shareThere is also a 4 hour tv movie about Ted Bundy called "The Deliberate Stranger".There a plenty of movies and tv shows that have the same name and also books.This movie was fictional but it was based on a real life case where a wife figured out that her husband was responsible for a series of rapes in the neighborhood they lived in.
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It's not stolen! Titles of a film, play, novel, etc. must be trademarked before someone else is not allowed to use that title for their story. No trademark? It's permitted, as long as the content is different. However, Star Wars has a TM after it (trademark), so somebody else wouldn't be permitted to film their own original movie that had that title.
shareI know, right. It isn't stolen, it's not a rip off. I quickly figured out it was a different movie and a different story.
Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.--Stephen King
In case you're going to buy a movie, find out who's in it (at least two or three of the people) and make sure those people are in it to be sure it's the right movie. It happens less often than not, but it still happens. There's a movie made in the 1950's called Carrie. They would play it on TV sometimes when the well-known 1970's Carrie was playing to trick people into watching it. However, if you didn't like it, you could just turn it off without having paid anything. "No harm, no foul" as Tommy would say. If you have to pay for something, that's another story. If it's THEIR mistake that the movie is wrong, it's one thing. If it's YOUR mistake, it's another. Returns can be a hassle because they don't give you your money back automatically. You can be turned down (not in perfect condition, doesn't have everything it came with, they didn't receive it (if it's a mail-in).
For the first time in recorded history, I used the phrase "less often than not".
True, & lol at "less often than not".
Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.--Stephen King
it annoyed me too, just because i was flipping through my guide thing on my tv and i got really excited because i thought it was the movie about the ted bundy book, and then when i turned to it, it wasn't. and i was disappointed.
shareYeah, that annoyed me, too, and when I first saw the main (male) character approaching Thiessen's character, he even looked a little like Ted Bundy, and I got excited thinking it was going to be about that case.
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