Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Plot: In the 50's, Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) are the most beloved entertainers in America. A classic duo — Lanny is the manic comedian, while Vince is his cool and collected straight man—the boys know how to make audiences roar with laughter at their jokes, or shed tears at one of their famous telethons. They are at the top of their game, wealthy, powerful, and enormously popular, when something terrible happens to threaten their success.Inexplicably, a dead beauty turns up in their hotel suite. Their reputations are sullied but, thanks to rock-solid alibis, neither is charged with the crime. Their partnership, on the other hand, is destroyed. Lanny and Vince manage to salvage separate careers, but years pass, with neither speaking to the other, or to anyone else, about the girl's death. The reason for the break-up of Morris and Collins becomes one of show business' greatest mysteries. Fifteen years later, in the 1970's, up and coming writer Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman), decides to turn this cold case into a hot story. This includes the discovery of a kinky menage-a-trois that may have led to a murder, Karen unravels a serpentine, shocking tale of talent and treachery, love and lust, buried secrets and betrayed trust. WHERE THE TRUTH LIES is
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 However, if the blue elements of Where the Truth Lies are not enough to keep you involved, the movie fails. Egoyan's magic with images and Mychael Danna's haunting score aren't enough to salvage a plot that might seem too silly for even the average dime novel.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Where the Truth Lies casts such a uniquely seductive spell that it takes a good long while before you figure out that it’s not, for the most part, very good. The film is a mystery, of sorts, but one in which you grow gradually more suspicious of the filmmakers, rather than any of the characters.  --Jesse Hassenger (FilmCritic.com)
Although it’s definitely not as effed up, I’m guessing that fans of MULHOLLAND DRIVE will check this film out and enjoy its intricacies as well. A cool change for Egoyan that doesn’t necessarily work on every level, but one that offers a number of successful elements, including a couple of great turns by the two male leads, an awesome style and score, and enough murder mystery pieces to give most buffs a run for their noggins. 7/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
For all the brazen frontal nudity, lesbian dalliance and controversial ménage à trois, he has no feel for pulpy potboilers or sleazy kicks, and the cold, cold void at the film's center overwhelms the lurid surface gloss without offering anything in its place.
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Shakespeare in Love, Bridget Jones's Diary, The English Patient |
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The Fog, Catch and Release, Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber | |
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A brain-twisting mystery that vaults among multiple time frames and narrators...  --JAN STUART
At 108 minutes, the film is far too long, drags in parts, and jumps in and out of time frames so often one gets dizzy. Worse, it doesn’t do a very good job of recreating the eras of the late ‘50’s and early ‘70’s, which are the two covered. Oh, the clothes and the cars are OK, but the ambience of the eras is completely missed. It’s like we’re watching something take place in those two eras from the safety of the 21st Century. 5/10--Tony Medley
The story occasionally provides facts to keep the film going, an effective trick but not really an impressive one. When it all unravels it seems a bit like, "Okay, anything else you want to tell me?" B---Laremy Legel
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