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With Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal. A group of Sudanese refugees, given the chance to resettle in the U.S., arrive in Kansas City, Missouri, where their encounter with an employment agency counselor forever changes all of their lives.
"The Good Lie" begins with a group of children living a happy, carefree life in Sudan until rebel forces massacre their village. The surviving children are forced to flee and do their best to stick together as they attempt to walk to Kenya.
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The Good Lie. Jump to Deauville Film Festival (2) Humanitas Prize (1) Image Awards (NAACP) (1) Black Reel Awards (1) Heartland Film (1) National Film Awards, UK (3) Winnipeg Real to Reel Film Festival (1) 3 wins & 7 nominations.
The Good Lie: Directed by Shawn Linden. With Michael Mando, Thomas Dekker, Matt Craven, Kimberly-Sue Murray. After his mother is tragically killed, a privileged young man discovers that he was the product of a vicious rape, and so he sets out to track down his sinister biological father.
The Good Liar: Directed by Bill Condon. With Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Russell Tovey, Jim Carter. Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions.
As The Good Lie takes pains to explain, there are moments when a lie has positive consequences that outweigh the telling of it. In fact, there's just such a lie embedded in the marketing campaign for Philippe Falardeau's earnest if occasionally overwrought film: that Reese Witherspoon is the star and central character of the movie.
With Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal. A group of Sudanese refugees, given the chance to resettle in the U.S., arrive in Kansas City, Missouri, where their encounter with an employment agency counselor forever changes all of their lives.
The Good Lie is a touching, generous-hearted movie, sensitively directed by Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar) working with a smart, sly, long-gestated script by Margaret Nagle (Boardwalk Empire).
Trailer #1. They were known simply as “The Lost Boys.” Orphaned by the brutal Civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3600 lost boys and girls to America. Back to top.
