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biopic
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Word definitions for biopic in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ "Kundun" is Martin Scorsese's biopic about the Dalai Lama.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also bio-pic , 1951, from biographical + (moving) picture . Frequent from mid-1951 in "Billboard" and possibly coined there.
Usage examples of biopic.
But on cable, you can find all manner of science fiction and fantasy films, from the bizarre romance of The Companion to an oh-so-sincere biopic like Roswell to the alternative history of Fatherland (to name but a few that came out about the same time as The Last Seduction).
Disney and ATW are duking it out for rights to the action figures, the biopic, and the immersion game.
Along the way, of course, there have been films that broke these molds, including several biopics about Christ, most of them risible, notably Nicholas Ray's horrid King of Kings (1961), which the late writer and critic James Agee suggested should be retitled I Was a Teenage Jesus.