# The Hoax (2006)

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**Runtime**: 116 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Drama
**Directed by**: Lasse Hallström
**Written by**: William Wheeler
**Starring**: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Julie Delpy, Stanley Tucci

> *Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Biopics usually flatter the famous, but this one's about the guy who invented a whole other biopic.  
A struggling writer hatches a scheme to publish fake memoirs of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.  
It all goes predictably sideways once the lies get thicker than the advance.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, paranoid, playful

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