The Good Liar

2019
R
1h 49m

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Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates int... Read allConsummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate stakes.Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate stakes.

Director
- Bill Condon
Writers
- Nicholas Searle
- Jeffrey Hatcher
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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

50K

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2,908

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Director
- Bill Condon
Writers
- Nicholas Searle
- Jeffrey Hatcher
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 6 nominations

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Trivia
In real life, Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Helen Mirren are close neighbors, they both live in Wapping, in East London.

Goofs
in 2009, Stephen tells Betty and Roy he is going to Spandau Prison to do research. Spandau Prison was demolished, literally ground to dust, and dumped at sea in 1987 to forestall neo-Nazis from turning it into a shrine. A shopping mall was built on the land.

Quotes
[leaving a screening of "Inglourious Basterds"]
Roy Courtnay: Well, I may have missed a step, but I am fairly certain that Adolf Hitler was not machine-gunned to death in a French cinema.
Betty McLeish: Well, it would have been rather good if he had been.

Connections
Featured in The Graham Norton Show: Dame Julie Andrews/Jennifer Aniston/Reese Witherspoon/Ian McKellen/Dua Lipa (2019)

Soundtracks
99 Bottles (Instrumental)
Written and Performed by Garrett Marshall Barnes, Isaac D Lucas, Jaron Lamot, Jason Rabinowitz, Kurt Zimmer and Cheapshot (as Colton Fisher)
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5/10

Good until the twist

With some of the best actors, we got the amazing performances we expected. But no amount of acting by McKellen or Mirren can save the script. This was actually a decent movie until the twist came in. It was hard to believe, didn't work with the tone of the movie, and just plain stupid. The film would've been way better off without it.