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Written and Directed by
Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson. Starring Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner,
Jonah Hill, Louis CK, Rob Lowe and Tina Fey. USA, 2009.
In a world where no one
ever lies, one man is inspired to lie, and turns everything upside down.
I’m actually surprised it
took me this long to get around to this movie – I’ve seen most of
writer/director/star Ricky Gervais’ other stuff, and I remember wanting to see
this at the time it came out. Anyway, I’m glad I finally did and in some ways
it is fun to see it in retrospect because it is filled with people who would
later go on to be even more famous, for better or worse, like Jonah Hill, Tina
Fey and Louis CK. This movie pulls double duty, both being a critique of
organized religion, which springs naturally out of the invention of lying, and
also qualifies for Romancefest with its other plot involving Jennifer Garner’s
slow realization that there’s more to choosing your partner than optimizing
genetic procreation. Although, as usual, a beautiful woman has to learn to
accept a schlub – how come it couldn’t have been about Gervais falling for a
non-Jennifer Garner? Whatever, the movie’s heart is in the right place.
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