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  • Summary: Sometimes the only way to make it is to fake it. That's what failed painter Gus Bishop discovers when a fast-talking thief makes off with one of his works and makes up a story the art world can't resist.
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Negative: 2 out of 8
  1. 70
    Spins a warm and fuzzy tale about love and happiness in the cutthroat art business.
  2. This well-cast film does with a lighter hand for art what "The Producers" does for show business.
  3. Posner paints in pretty broad strokes. The movie is studded with convenient coincidences and obvious observations. But he has also put together a nicely polished production that shines with an almost earnest charm.
  4. All strained artifice, inhabited by individuals who either lack dimension or are merely stereotypes. The result is a movie not nearly as amusing as its makers may think.

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