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THE INVENTION OF LYING
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Completed - ENGLISH - Comedy - 99 minutes

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  • Toronto 2009 (Premiere)
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Year of production : 2009

Director(s) : Matthew ROBINSON, Ricky GERVAIS
Writer(s) : Matthew ROBINSON, Ricky GERVAIS
Cast : Jennifer GARNER, Jonah HILL, Louis C.K., Ricky GERVAIS, Rob LOWE, Tina FEY

Producer(s) : Lynda OBST, Oly OBST

Synopsis

It's a world with shades of Pleasantville: people are sweet, the beautiful among them especially beautiful, and everyone knows their place – partly because others will rather abruptly remind them of it. But the lack of lies has an interesting flip side: there's also no fiction, no fantasy. That is, until one day when Mark Bellison (Gervais), at loose ends after being fired from his job as a writer for a film studio devoted to producing the only cinematic fare this world knows (dry readings from history, of course), makes a remarkable discovery. A switch – in fact, let's call it a light bulb – goes off in his head, he tells the world's first lie, and instantly his life turns around. His dream girl, Jennifer (Jennifer Garner), suddenly seems within reach, his career star is back on the rise, and before too long, he's even famous.

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Country(ies) : USA

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