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The Hoax
Directed by
Lasse Hallström
R
2006
1h 56m
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6.7
85%
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In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
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Cast of The Hoax
Richard Gere
Clifford Irving
Alfred Molina
Dick Suskind
Marcia Gay Harden
Edith Irving
Hope Davis
Andrea Tate
Julie Delpy
Nina Van Pallandt
Stanley Tucci
Shelton Fisher
David Aaron Baker
Brad Silber
Mamie Gummer
Dana
Zeljko Ivanek
Ralph Graves
Eli Wallach
Noah Dietrich
Myk Watford
Sergent Daniels
John Bedford Lloyd
Frank Mccullough
Peter McRobbie
George Gordon Holmes
John Carter
Harold McGraw
James Biberi
McGraw-Hill Security
Christopher Evan Welch
Albert Vanderkamp
Raul Julia Jr.
Bike Messenger
Judi Barton
Marion
Milton Buras
Howard Hughes
Okwui Okpokwasili
Malika
Bob Wiltfong
Sporting Goods Salesman
William Fowle
Car Salesman
Carlton Wilborn
Bahamas Desk Clerk
Antonie Knoppers
Fredrick Van Pallandt
Steve Buck
Man with Red Tie
Eric Yellin
Man in Blue Jeans
John Rothman
Puffy Man
Susan Misner
Feral Girl #1
Jennifer Layne Park
Feral Girl #2
The Hoax Ratings & Reviews
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
I've never been a fan of Richard Gere, but he gives the performance of his career as Clifford Irving.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
It's hard to get a fix on what Hallstrom had in mind.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Highly entertaining.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hap Erstein
A gripping little film that is well told and well performed.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
Hallström stops well short of cheesy, however, and he never veers from the movie's central fascination: the author's obsessive melding with his subject.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
... a serious and amusing black farce that does without obvious heroes or villains ...
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
The Hoax isn't Gere's best movie (that honor will always and forever belong to Days of Heaven), but it might feature his best performance.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Richard Gere is superb as Irving, capturing the brio and smooth charm but also the barely subliminal anger, neediness, and desperation.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Gere persuasively portrays a guy whose confidence blossoms as he makes the discovery that as his lies grow so does the ease with which he tells them.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
At least half of The Hoax is a giddy pleasure.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
It's a terrific film.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Hallström and Wheeler have a great time setting up and embroidering Irving's increasingly elaborate scheme.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The Hoax doesn't tell its stories as well as Irving does, but it's an enjoyable immersion into a master storyteller's frantically made-up world.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Richard Gere is the ideal actor for the role.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Gere seems as born again as he did during the musical numbers in Chicago.
AV Club
Tasha Robinson
It's an accomplished potboiler entertainment, as calculated and clever as the stories Irving spins to stay afloat in the growing sea of his own lies.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
The literary and journalistic frauds of the present era are small potatoes compared to the work of Clifford Irving, the subject of The Hoax.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Gere, who is always sharpest when he's playing double-edged personalities, is fun to watch, and Hallström conveys a bit of the circuslike atmosphere of the times.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
Director Lasse Hallström, delivering his best all-around work since 1999's The Cider House Rules, manages to sustain a nimble pace despite a crushing amount of narrative detail.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
We never establish an emotional connection with Irving. Even though we're caught up in his derring-do as he beguiles entire meeting rooms of jaded publishers and editors, we're kept at a dissatisfying distance from Irving and the movie.
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