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The Invention of Lying (2009): Movie Review

The Invention of Lying (2009)
Joe Williams

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Imagine an alternate universe in which everyone always tells the truth. It would be paradise, right?

Wrong, says Ricky Gervais, who co-wrote, co-directed and stars in "The Invention of Lying." The truth is brutal, and the only thing that keeps us from demeaning all the imperfect people in our lives is altruistic dishonesty.

In the movie, the man who discovers deceit, a struggling screenwriter named Mark Bellison, gets rich, gets the girl and gets hailed as a prophet.

This topsy-turvy flick is fitfully funny, but more often it's just odd, like the first draft of a "Twilight Zone" episode that's missing its moral. It takes place in a drab world of forthright insults and bared feelings.

Blind date Anna (Jennifer Garner) greets Mark by saying he's too chubby to successfully seduce her; their waiter confesses he hates his job and just took a sip of Anna's margarita.

After Mark is rudely dismissed from an educational-film company, he becomes the beneficiary of a bank error. Soon he finds that he can multiply his money, win back his job and seduce women by saying "things that aren't."

Yet we're supposed to regard Mark as a hero. He feigns compassion for a suicidal neighbor (Jonah Hill) and comforts his dying mother (Fionnula Flanagan) with a vision of "a man in the sky" who will welcome her with open arms.

As word spreads about this newly discovered God, Mark is hailed as His messenger, and marriage-minded Anna is torn between the prophet and a rival screenwriter with superior genes (Rob Lowe).

Ruefully smiling behind his trademark protective shell, Gervais makes it hard to sift through the mixed messages. On the one hand, he's dared to direct a mainstream movie asserting that God is a convenient fiction. In the other hand he's clutching a valentine, hoping we'll forgive and forget.

"The Invention of Lying" is an ambitious attempt to smash the wedding cake and eat it, too; but to say it succeeds would be stretching the truth.

© Joe Williams


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The Invention of Lying (2009)

Genre: Comedy, Romantic
Duration: 1 hr. 40 min.
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Ricky Gervais, Rob Lowe, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill,
Director: Matthew Robinson, Ricky Gervais
Producer: Lynda Obst, Oly Obst
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Writer: Matthew Robinson, Ricky Gervais

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:: Synopsis
From Ricky Gervais, the award-winning creator and star of the original BBC series 'The Office' and HBO's 'Extras,' comes the new romantic comedy 'The Invention of Lying,' which takes place in an alternate reality where lying--even the concept of a lie--does not exist. Everyone--from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the street--speaks the truth and nothing but the truth with no thought of the consequences. But when a down-on-his-luck loser named Mark suddenly develops the ability to lie, he finds that dishonesty has its rewards. In a world where every word is assumed to be the absolute truth, Mark easily lies his way to fame and fortune. But lies have a way of spreading, and Mark begins to realize that things are getting a little out of control when some of his tallest tales are being taken as, well, gospel. With the entire world now hanging on his every word, there is only one thing Mark has not been able to lie his way into: the heart of the woman he loves.


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Movie: The Invention of Lying
Year: 2009
Famous Actors: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K., Jeffrey Tambor
Directors: Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson
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