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  • 2005
  • R
  • THINKFilm
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • THINKFilm
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary A provocative film about interconnected lives that are shattered by ill-fated acts of deception and ambition. Shifting effortlessly between mob-run clubs of the mid-50's and glamorous Hollywood Hills mansions of 1972, the film explores the dark, beguiling, and inevitably destructive side of fame and fortune. The result is a tense and atm...

Directed By: Atom Egoyan

Written By: Rupert Holmes, Atom Egoyan

  • 2005
  • R
  • THINKFilm
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • THINKFilm
  • 1 h 47 m

Where the Truth Lies

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 29 Critic Reviews
47
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary A provocative film about interconnected lives that are shattered by ill-fated acts of deception and ambition. Shifting effortlessly between mob-run clubs of the mid-50's and glamorous Hollywood Hills mansions of 1972, the film explores the dark, beguiling, and inevitably destructive side of fame and fortune. The result is a tense and atm...

Directed By: Atom Egoyan

Written By: Rupert Holmes, Atom Egoyan

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 29 Critic Reviews
47
38% Positive
11 Reviews
48% Mixed
14 Reviews
14% Negative
4 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 29 Critic Reviews
47
38% Positive
11 Reviews
48% Mixed
14 Reviews
14% Negative
4 Reviews

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90
Atom Egoyan has delivered a big, slick and sexy mystery in Where the Truth Lies, turning the Rupert Holmes novel into a sumptuous tale of show business hype and duplicity.
By Ray Bennett FULL REVIEW
75
High-gloss trash but compulsively watchable.
By Ruthe Stein FULL REVIEW
63
Entertaining and even affecting, Where the Truth Lies is a failure primarily because it doesn't do justice to its originator, Rupert Holmes' dishy 2003 novel, which shared both of the aforementioned characteristics but also was extremely funny. The film, directed by Atom Egoyan, is not.
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50
Terrific performances by Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth as a comic duo clearly modeled on Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin get swallowed up in Atom Egoyan's muddled murder mystery.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
50
Egoyan's sensibility doesn't quite fit the material. His trademark stone-faced austerity never bends to capture the black comedy in the dissonance between his characters' public and private lives. It almost demands a trashier approach.
By Keith Phipps FULL REVIEW
40
This showbiz Rashomon has continuity, as well as credibility, problems.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
25
This movie isn't over-the-top -- it doesn't know where the top is. Trash addicts will eat up every graphic minute, even if they prefer to wait for the DVD.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW

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5.2
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36% Mixed
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27% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 11 User Ratings
5.2
36% Positive
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36% Mixed
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27% Negative
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Production Company Serendipity Point Films, First Choice Films, The Movie Network (TMN), Téléfilm Canada, Movie Central Network, Ego Film Arts, The Harold Greenberg Fund
Release Date Oct 14, 2005
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.serendipitypoint.com/portfolio-post/where-the-truth-lies/
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Awards

Genie Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Directors Guild of Canada
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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