Crossword clues for biopic
biopic
- Spike Lee's "Malcolm X," e.g.
- "Ali," e.g.
- "Lincoln" or "Gandhi"
- "Lincoln" or "Nixon"
- Writer receives ten pence for film
- Writer pockets tenpence piece in the cinema
- Film couple describing work in long-gone era
- Lust for Life, for example
- Personal feature of writer covering current work
- Biographical film
- "Ray" or "Ali"
- "Ali" or "Frida"
- Film about a person's life
- "The Theory of Everything," e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also bio-pic, 1951, from biographical + (moving) picture. Frequent from mid-1951 in "Billboard" and possibly coined there.
Wiktionary
n. A motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people).
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.