The Hoax

The Hoax

6.3IMDb Score
Released:2006-10-14
Genre:Comedy, Drama
Duration:116 min
Country:United States of America
Director:Lasse Hallström
Actors:Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Julie Delpy
Production:Yari Film Group, Miramax, The Mark Gordon Company, Syndicate Films

Overview:

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.

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