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The Good Liar. The Good Liar is a 2019 crime thriller film directed and produced by Bill Condon and written by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Nicholas Searle. It stars Ian McKellen as a career con artist who meets a wealthy widow (Helen Mirren) online, and then discovers that his plan to steal her fortune has ...
In literature, film, and other such arts, an unreliable narrator is a narrator who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised. [ 1 ] They can be found in fiction and film, and range from children to mature characters. [ 2 ] While unreliable narrators are almost by definition first-person narrators, arguments have been made for the ...
The Good Lie. The Good Lie is a 2014 American drama film written by Margaret Nagle and directed by Philippe Falardeau. The film stars Reese Witherspoon in the lead role, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal, and Corey Stoll. The Good Lie was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival [ 6 ...
“So little is what it seems to be,” the press notes for “The Good Liar” promise. And that’s true, in the sense that one might expect a great deal more from a project that brings together ...
The stories are presented in a way that portrays the liar favorably. The liar "decorates their own person" [9] [12] by telling stories that present them as the hero or the victim. For example, they might be presented as being fantastically brave, as knowing or being related to many famous people, or as having great power, position, or wealth.
A plot twist is a literary technique that introduces a radical change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot in a work of fiction. [ 1 ] When it happens near the end of a story, it is known as a twist ending or surprise ending. [ 2 ] It may change the audience's perception of the preceding events, or introduce a new conflict that ...
Woodshock is a 2017 American psychological thriller drama film [3][4] written and directed by Kate and Laura Mulleavy, in their joint feature directorial debut. It stars Kirsten Dunst, Joe Cole, and Pilou Asbæk. The plot follows a woman who, reeling after the loss of her mother, begins to cope by using a powerful substance which has ...
English. Box office. $572,433. Deceiver (UK title: Liar) is a 1997 American mystery film directed by Jonas Pate and Josh Pate, and starring Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Michael Rooker, Rosanna Arquette, Ellen Burstyn and Renée Zellweger. It won Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay at the 1997 Stockholm Film Festival, and the Special Jury Prize at ...