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The Hoax [2007]
from Momentum Pictures
starring Richard Gere, Michael J. Burg, Julie Delpy, Hope Davis, Marcia Gay Harden
directed by Lasse Hallstrom

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Better than average Gere
  Not normally a big fan of Richard Gere, but this film show a return to form for him. When watching the film you're never quite sure what has been added for dramatic affect and what is part of the original true story. However, that resonates quite well with the fact that Irving himself appeared not to know the difference between fact and fiction either. Well worth a watch.

• Below average stab at a genre done so much better recently.
  
  Want to see a movie about a con artist? A really good one? Then watch Catch Me If You Can. The Hoax isn't a terrible movie, I'd give it 2.5 stars if I could, but it falls short in areas where we've seen it done so much better in recent years.
  Whereas Catch Me If You Can studies a confidence man who did everything we see in the movie, although less glamourously I'm sure, The Hoax seems to take artistic license too far and leaves you thinking just that. Representing one of the most infamous... more info

• An interesting true story translated into a quite slow 'just OK' film
  This is the story of how a struggling author called Clifford Irving was so desperate for success he decided to make up a story that he was in contact with Howard Hughes who had agreed for Irving to write his life story. Shockingly, Irving's publisher's believed this, leading to a huge chain of events where this hoax snowballed out of control.
  The story itself is an amazing one, especially considering as it was actually true. So I was looking forward to seeing how exactly Irving, played by an in-form... more info

• Surprisingly gripping!
  Having never been a real fan of Richard Gere's work, I wasn't really sure that I would enjoy this film - how wrong I was. Whilst the premise of this film seems a little unusual (we know (obviously) from the start that he's perpetrating a hoax), the execution and subsequent ending, I think were handled really well.
  The only really flaw with the film was the sub-plot with the women in Irvings life which I felt was quite weak.
  This isn't a fast moving film but the direction was superb interspersing... more info

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