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The Good Lie

The Good Lie

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 10, 2014

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama

User Score

73%

Original Title

The Good Lie

Production Companies

Alcon Entertainment, Black Label Media, Blue Sky Africa, Reliance Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures, Summit Entertainment, Imagine Entertainment

Director

Philippe Falardeau

Budget

$20,000,000

Revenue

$3,396,345

Description

A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.