2006 · comedy · drama
The Hoax
Directed by Lasse Hallström1h 56m2006
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.
Our read: The Hoax (2006) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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