The Good Liar

2019
R
1h 49m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

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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
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

50K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,433

807

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

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 6 nominations

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)
Courtesy of The Math Club

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Featured review

7/10

Ticks alongs nicely

Moved along nicely with an exceptional cast despite the main twist being predictable from the outset before going to far fetched to counter its main predictability to end. Overall still enjoyed it thanks to the fantastic cast but the writing could have been a lot better.