The Good Lie

The Good Lie

7.4IMDb Score
Released:2014-09-10
Genre:Drama
Duration:110 min
Country:India, Kenya, United States of America
Director:Philippe Falardeau
Actors:Reese Witherspoon, Corey Stoll, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Thad Luckinbill
Production:Alcon Entertainment, Black Label Media, Blue Sky Africa, Reliance Entertainment, Imagine Entertainment

Overview:

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.

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