Ever seen The Pursuit of Happyness?
Well, here's some revelations on the protagonist (Kevin Gardner-played by Will Smith) for you:
1. He did LSD.
2. He didn't know where his son was for 4 months.
3. The son in question was conceived when he was married to another woman.
4. He was arrested for domestic violence.
Lesson learned: even non-scary movies are guilty of placing "Based on a True Story" moniker on things that are obviously not so true.
Then again, they are movies, so we can't necessarily hate them.