2014 · drama
The Good Lie
Directed by Philippe Falardeau1h 50m2014
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
Our read: The Good Lie (2014) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- redemptive
- tender
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