The Hoax
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 18 Ratings
- Starring: Alfred Molina, Richard Gere
- Summary: Inspired by true events, this film stars Richard Gere as Clifford Irving, a charismatic and charming writer who persuades the world that he is the authorized biographer for the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. (Miramax Films)
- Director: Lasse Hallström
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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Positive: 31 out of 37
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Mixed: 5 out of 37
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Negative: 1 out of 37
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91Gere is terrific at suggesting the kind of addictive cocktail of excitement, panic, chutzpah, creativity, and naked hunger for fame and megabucks that might inspire such big, fat lies.
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80Entertaining and piquant. The film does possess some of the bittersweet qualities that usually mark Hallstrom's films, but it's generally a tougher, more incisive work that ranks as one of his best.
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60Full speed ahead fun, a rollicking caper romp that hearkens back to a quainter, pre-Ken Lay age when bigtime fraud could actually entail writing books as opposed to merely cooking them.
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30It's pretty perverse for William Wheeler, who scripted this feature, to get most of the facts wrong, inflating details that don't need any spin. (As Irving himself remarked, "You could call it a hoax about a hoax.")
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Positive: 4 out of 6
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Mixed: 1 out of 6
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Negative: 1 out of 6
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