The Invention of Lying (2009)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Directors: Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson

Cinematographer: Tim Suhrstedt

Composer: Tim Atack

Cast: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K., Jeffrey Tambor, Fionnula Flanagan, Rob Lowe, Tina Fey

In Gervais and Robinson’s fitfully amusing and gently satirical though slightly sentimental and somewhat predictable comedy, set in a universe where everyone has always told the truth, Mark Bellison, one of life’s losers, learns how to lie and sets about making the world a better place with tales of the afterlife and other little white lies, but struggles to woo the woman of his dreams. Iain.Stott