Is Joe Bell A True Story?

The family’s tragic story inspired “Joe Bell,” a movie debuting Friday starring Mark Wahlberg as Bell, Connie Britton as Lathrop and Reid Miller as Jadin. The true story behind the film is complicated, and “Joe Bell” attempts to portray the real-life nuances.

According to the Denver Post, Bell was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Joe Bell was in the works for more than a half-decade before it finally debuted on the big screen.

Based on the true story of Joe and his 15-year-old son Jadin Bell, the biographical drama was directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, who also adapted the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain.

Bell had set out with nothing but a three-wheeled pushcart loaded with food and water and a desire to help change the world.

Who played Joe Bell in the movie?

When Joe Bell (portrayed by Mark Wahlberg in the movie) was 17 in 1982, he was in a difficult relationship with his father. He made the decision to kill himself and took the .22 caliber pistol from his father’s bedroom in the middle of the night. He put the gun to his temple.

Like in the movie, the Joe Bell true story confirms that he pushed a rolling cart and carried a metal-frame hiking backpack. He tried to keep four gallons of water with him at all times, as well as food, books (quite a few were Bibles), clothes, a sleeping bag, and a tent. -Salon.com.

A teacher found Jadin smoking a cigarette and turned him in to the administration. As part of his punishment, he was suspended from the cheerleading team. Jadin Bell’s father, Joe Bell, suspected that the school saw Jadin as an embarrassment and used the incident as an excuse to remove him from the team.

A fact-check reveals that the real Jadin Bell had four siblings, a younger brother, Joseph Jr.; an older brother, Dustin; an older sister, Amber Lynn; and a stepsister, Ronda Eaton.

However, the nine minutes that his brain had been deprived of oxygen proved to be too long. He never regained consciousness. 10 days later on January 29, Jadin Bell’s parents, Joe Bell and Lola Lathrop, made the difficult decision to remove him from life support after his body began to suffer seizures.

It’s unclear if Jadin thought it was possible he might be found in time to be saved. Jadin Bell hung himself from the playground equipment at Central Elementary, pictured above.

According to the true story behind Joe Bell, Jadin hung himself with a length of rope from a playground structure at Central Elementary, a local elementary school, on January 19, 2013. He had walked to the school in 20-degree weather. According to Salon.com, before taking his life, the 15-year-old texted his friend Tara …