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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396138988
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: THINKFilm
Manufacturer: THINKFilm
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: THINKFilm
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 10518
Studio: THINKFilm
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A female journalist tries to uncover the truth behind the breakup years earlier of a celebrated comedy team after the duo found a girl dead in their hotel room. Though both had airtight alibis and neither was accused the incident put an end to their act.System Requirements:Running Time: 108 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: NR UPC: 043396138988 Manufacturer No: 13898
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Director Atom Egoyan's 2005 film Where the Truth Lies is laden with nudity, sex, violence, lies, blackmail, betrayal… and really, what more could you want? Other than some genuine tension, a more compelling story, and better acting, that is. In adapting Rupert Holmes' novel, the Cairo-born Egoyan (Ararat, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter) has taken on a murder mystery with film noir elements that will leave many viewers wondering exactly 'whodunit' until the final few scenes; and while that's surely a good thing, the ride itself simply isn't all that scintillating. Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth star as a (Dean) Martin & (Jerry) Lewis-style team whose principal talents seem to consist mainly of pill-popping, soulless sex with a stream of nubile young women, and hosting an annual polio telethon. Fifteen years after their '50s heyday, journalist Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman), who appeared on the telethon as a child, seeks out the pair to determine why they split up and, not coincidentally, what really happened to the dead girl with whom they had dallied the night before. Bacon is reasonably unctuous as the leering Lanny Morris; but Firth is uninspired as the more elusive Vince Collins, and although Lohman is game, she sometimes seems out of her depth in a role that calls for her to both seduce and be seduced, to manipulate and be manipulated. Egoyan, who also wrote the screenplay, has an eye for odd little details (much is made of Pan Am's first class dinner service, for instance) and an ear for great music (the soundtrack includes tunes by Charles Mingus, Louis Prima, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Funkadelic) and good dialogue ('Having to be a nice guy is the toughest job in the world when you're not'). But the film is curiously tepid; the sex is unconvincing, the mystery lacks a sense of danger, and the resolution is hardly shocking. One wishes that, having dipped into this genre, Egoyan had gone all out and made a film as delightfully sleazy as, say, Basic Instinct. --Sam Graham
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A Baffling Low-Key Mystery
Shadow Watcher
Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
Like his critically acclaimed THE SWEET HEREAFTER, this engrossing film from writer-director Atom Egoyan is a baffling low-key mystery with a surprising, equally quiet, ending.
Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth play a Martin & Lewis-like comedy team that, back in the 1950s, was one of the most successful acts in show business. Then, a beautiful woman was found dead in their hotel suite and, though nobody was ever charged ... Read More
Rating: - Buried Treasure
My wife and I were perusing the aisles of HMV looking for bargains. She was looking in the $3.99 bin while I was checking out the second hand offerings. My wife found "Swept Away" and because of her undying allegiance to Madonna I bit my tongue. She waved a copy of this film and I was intrigued not because of the presence of Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth but why I never heard of it. I was further intrigued by the fact that the film was directed by Atom Egoyan who made one of the great films of ... Read More
Rating:  - Alison Lohman Rocks!
Alison Lohman's performances always captivate me. The film itself was good (not great). I would've liked to have seen more humor whenever the two comedians were in public (on stage, in a restaurant, on a street). I believe by having much more silly, always leave 'em laughing personas in public (usually accompanied with humility & incredible compassion) would've made the juxtaposition with their truer, darker, all-consuming narcissism all the more striking. And by having film protagonists ... Read More
Rating:  - Save your money
Tepid, predictable, and boring. It's astounding that Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth could be in a movie this bad.
Rating:  - One curiously tepid film is where this "Truth Lies"
WHERE THE TRUTH LIES seems to have all of the right ingredients for a good film whodunit thriller,like Atom Egoyan,screenwriter of THE SWEET HEREAFTER, actors Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon, and a soundtrack by Michael Danna.These are ingredients for a successful recipe.Sorry! This was simply awful.There was no tension, no suspense and despite Firth and Bacon doing their level best to pull off a "Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis" disguised biopic of sorts, actress Alison Lohman, playing reporter Karen O'Connor ... Read More
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