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| ACTUALLY, the Scots didn't start wearing kilts until several hundred years after the film takes place. | |
| ACTUALLY, the title character's 1964 boxing match was lost fair and square, not because of insidious racism. (Not that he didn't suffer at the hands of a racist system, though.) | |
| ACTUALLY, the team of students that counted cards and won big bucks at Vegas casinos was predominantly Asian, not Caucasian. | |
| ACTUALLY, the central relationship between the deceitful young protagonist and his father was invented for the film. They never spoke after his parents' divorce. | |
| ACTUALLY, the scientist of the film's title was not disgusted by the unapologetic pedophile he encounters during his studies, but was instead fascinated by him. | |
| ACTUALLY, the domineering drug lord of the film was functionally illiterate. | |
| ACTUALLY, the no-nonsense teacher protagonist used contemporary hip-hop to reach her students, not Dylan and other such older artists. | |
| ACTUALLY, the emperor was all too happy to have his son take over, and his son ruled for 13 years. The son was not passed over for a general. | |
| ACTUALLY, Genghis Khan was from modern-day Mongolia. Not the Midwestern US. (Sigh) | |
| ACTUALLY, the former president made no such late night phone call. | |
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| ACTUALLY, the ship's first officer never shot two innocent men out of panic before turning his pistol on himself. Indeed, the director later apologized on the DVD commentary. | |
| ACTUALLY, the “gentle giant” at the center of the movie did not need to be taught American football, nor did he need to be toughened up by his supposedly saintly benefactors. | |
| ACTUALLY, the protagonist was an alcoholic prone to anti-Semitic rants, and he never spoke at his Nobel Prize ceremony. He also had numerous affairs with young men. | |
| ACTUALLY, the playwright protagonist did not reserve 25 seats on the opening night of his new show for local orphans. (It sure makes for a cute moment, though.) | |
| ACTUALLY, although the charismatic villain was very much a real person, he was also very much dead eight years before the Draft Riots depicted in the film took place. | |
| ACTUALLY, although the antagonist did kill a man in the ring, he was not a gleeful thug, and he felt guilty about it for the rest of his life. | |
| ACTUALLY, the protagonist was certainly hateful towards Jews and Poles. He and his partners sought to kill their leader primarily because they believed they would lose the war. | |
| ACTUALLY, the protagonist's legendary Carnegie Hall show did not occur just before his death, but several years earlier, at the peak of his mainstream success. | |
| ACTUALLY, the head football coach wasn't a jerk. He really wanted the little underdog to play, and in fact was the one to suggest it. | |
| ACTUALLY, the WWII submarine crew that mounted a daring mission to capture a German submarine was British, not American. | |
| No, that's definitely fiction | |
| Wrong year! | |
| Saving it for the sequel! | |
| More of a Christ-figure than a gentle giant. | |
| Different Caucasian female teacher true story movie. | |
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