The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It's Fiction (You Guessed It: Rasputin!)

The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It's Fiction (You Guessed It: Rasputin!)

Virtually every film in modern memory ends with some variation of the same disclaimer: "This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental." The cut-and-paste legal rider must be the most boring thing in every movie that features it.

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