The Good Lie (2014)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

A Masterpiece!

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Blistering performances.

While its very much cut from the same cloth as films like The Blind Side and its story reeks of Hollywood sap, you'd be hard pressed to not find enjoyment in this based around real life stories The Good Lie, a film that more than likely bypassed cinemas near you upon release last year and failed to find an audience in any capacity.Produced by the Academy Award winning team of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, The Good Lie certainly has pedigree behind it and with the true story of The Lost Boys Of Sudan as its base, it's hard to know exactly why the film failed so dismally when it was rolled out towards the later end of last year.Reviewed well and rated highly by audiences, one suspects that The Good Lie has the potential to be a slowly building sleeper hit in the years to come and with a tale so easy to like as this, it will be a film that brings both smiles and tears to many different people the world over even though its somewhat twee handling can hamper the films emotional engagement and some scripting scenario/acting turns dampen the films overall quality.The biggest success found within the Good Lie lays entirely on how central group of uprooted refugees led by Arnold Oceng's determined Mamere and Ger Duany's God fearing Jerimiah adapt to life in the land of opportunity in America. There's simple joys to be found in the sincere questioning these kind hearted souls ask and director Philippe Falardeau does a great job of handling his largely unknown cast in the way in which this is portrayed. The top billing of Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon is a little bit of marketing ploy here as a warning as she is largely a bit part player to the Sudanese squad and her role is a little too much "Sandra Bullock" to really work.An enjoyable, often funny and occasionally moving tale with call backs to real life trials over adversity, The Good Lie never becomes anything akin to other classic such tales but it's certainly a film worth tracking down. A quality production that deserved more credit than it ever got upon release, The Good Lie is just the type of Hollywood ilk that we need more of.3 1/2 McDonalds trips out of 5

Review: I really enjoyed this intense drama and you can't help feeling emotional about the brothers emotional story. The many horrible death-defying situations that they found themselves in, did bring a tear to my eye and the fact that it was based on real characters made it even more emotional. Anyway, the film is about 3 brothers and there sister who end up in a refugee camp after walking for miles to escape the enemy during the Sudanese Civil War. After spending years in the camp, they finally get the opportunity to go to Kansas City so while America is excepting refugees so they jump on a plane to freedom. At the airport they find out that the women have to live with a family so they are split up from there sister and they end up living in a small flat together. There counsellor (Reese Witherspoon) struggles to find them jobs because of there lack of qualifications but she has faith in there work methods so she uses all of her resources to get them work. They then battle against the laws of the land to reunite with there sister and they find out that there brother is still alive in Sudan so they try and look for loopholes in the law to bring gin to America.  After seeking help for his brother and failing at every hurdle, one of the brothers takes on the task to go and get him from Sudan but it comes at a high price. Its such a touching story which is put together well by the director. The footage of the families journey to Ethiopia was amazing and authentic and I really can't imagine how difficult that period must have been. The fact that they didn't know anything about modern technology, like phones and simple things like Macdonalds, really did bring there situation to light  and the attention to detail from the director was brilliant. Anyway, I really enjoyed this emotional drama and the acting from the cast was superb. Enjoyable!Round-Up: Although this movie made a massive lose at the box office, which it didn't deserve, I haven't heard a bad word said about it. You might recognise Mamere (Arnold Oceng) from films like Adulthood, Top Boy, Grange Hill and Casualty, so he's quite new to the Hollywood big screen. Jeremiah (Ger Duany) has made appearances in I Heart Huckabees, which I really enjoyed, the Fighter with Mark Wahlberg, Restless City and Isn't It Delicious so he has a little experience, which you can see in his performance. Reese Witherspoon, 39, really came to light after her role in Legally Blonde in 2001 and her performance in Sweet Home Alabama in 2002 but she really hit the big time in 2005 with her Oscar winning performance in Walk The Line. Since then she has made some mediocre movies like Mud, This Means War, Water For Elephants, Devil's Knot and Wild but she hasn't hit the stardom that she reached in 2005. This film was directed by Phillipe Falardeau who is pretty new to the Hollywood big screen, which is why the movie didn't get the big distribution treatment that it deserved. He really did put this emotional, true drama, together well but it's a shame that it didn't reach more cinemas. Its not very often that a film brings a tear to my eye so I have to give this movie the thumbs up.Budget: $20million Worldwide Gross: $3.2millionI recommend this movie to people who are into their emotional dramas about a family who have gone through hell during the Sudanese Civil War and leave there refugee camp to seek for opportunities in America. 7/10

Some years ago I saw a documentary on the subject, but this movie is a fictional story inspired by the real events. In fact its content was run by real survivors of the Sudan wars of the 1980s to make sure everything was realistic.The title is from "Huck Finn" and we encounter it three times, it means a lie which is appropriate for the good of someone else, maybe even to save their life.The story starts in the 1980s and we see how whole villages were wiped out by gunfire and burning. In this tale three brothers and their sister in South Sudan manage to run away and survive, then head East towards Ethiopia where they had been told they could get refuge and food. The only transportation for most Sudanese was walking so they thought nothing of making such a trip of several hundred miles, and with little food or fresh water.They eventually meet up with many others headed south to Kenya so they joined them. Their fate was a refugee camp where they could get food, medical care, and safety, but many of them stayed there for years, some never leaving this refugee camp.This movie concerns the three brothers and their sister who received the opportunity to travel to the USA where they would find work and integrate themselves into society. But there was a problem, they had to separate the boys, headed for Kansas City, from their sister headed for Boston, because of the availability of foster homes.So that is the main story here, their relocation to a land of strange customs. They are assigned to Reese Witherspoon as Carrie who would help them find jobs. As she realized how far they had to go in this new environment she became much more involved and eventually to try to reunite the boys with their sister.This is a very good movie and brings home the big issue of internal strife and displacement, not only in South Sudan but in many countries all over the world. Aside from Reese, many of the actors were either men who had actually been young boys in South Sudan or men whose parents were.

I just saw this movie yesterday. All I can say is WOW! How this movie did not win all kinds of awards, I don't understand. Hollywood is so desensitized, it just doesn't know a good thing when it sees it.An incredibly touching movie based on the real life stories of many Sudanese children who fled their war-torn country in the early 80s. Sudan has had several civil wars over most of the last 60 years, with millions of victims accumulated. Anyway, this story is so inspiring, beautiful, uplifting and heart-felt, that there's no way you can be human and not cry at least a few times during the movie.Hollywood overlooks the good ones time and time again. This was without question, Oscar-worthy. No nominations, go figure. This is definitely one you don't want to miss.The main actors are all Sudanese themselves and give an awesome performance - so genuine, natural and heartfelt. You don't even feel like your watching a movie. Reese Witherspoon is in it, but really she's just ancillary.Go see it!!!