Really spending that time with James and saying that he went through that, it’s still a big kind of hope for people today." It was the six weeks he spent there, we talked about that with them. I went to the treatment center with him, I met his counselors. "What we’ve done is focus in on James’ journey. We’ve lost so many characters and different storylines," Taylor-Johnson tells Bustle. "With the movie itself, by the time we condensed the book from 500 pages to a 100-minute long movie, sort of irrelevant. Apparently, the movie cuts out much of the book's more extraneous exaggerations and instead makes an attempt to tell what really happened to Frey because, at the end of the day, James Frey really did have a difficult battle with addiction for which he went to rehab.
If you're still harboring some skepticism about the film due to the controversy surrounding the book, you needn't be. So that begs the question: How accurate is A Million Little Pieces the movie? Since the film is telling the story of Frey's struggles with addiction, will it hew closer to what Frey actually went through in his real life, or will it stick to the largely fictionalized version of his bestselling memoir/novel? The "memoir" by James Frey about his unbelievable life as a drug addict turned out to be unbelievable for a reason: Frey admitted in 2006 to having invented and exaggerated much of the memoir. But the story upon which the new film A Million Little Pieces is based is not your typical true story. Typically, movies based on true stories tend to be more fictional than their sources.
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