It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic setup that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. At a bank, on the spur of the moment he blurts out a fib, with eye-popping results. Then, when his mother's on her deathbed, frightened of the eternal void awaiting her, Mark invents fiction. The hospital staff ove... (Full plot summary below)
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It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic setup that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. At a bank, on the spur of the moment he blurts out a fib, with eye-popping results. Then, when his mother's on her deathbed, frightened of the eternal void awaiting her, Mark invents fiction. The hospital staff overhear his description of Heaven, believe every word, and tell others. Soon Mark is a prophet, his first inventive screenplay makes him rich, and he's basically a good guy. But will that be enough for Anna?
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| EmanuelLevy.ComTim GriersonInvention of Lying has more than its fair share of genuine laughs to go along with its abundance of heart. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA rare achievement for a romantic comedy -- bringing us to a closer and deeper sensitivity to the sharp edges of honesty and the ways in which deceptions can both heal and harm. |
| E! OnlineNatasha Vargas-CooperThe tone remains the same throughout, though, good spirited and high minded without pretensions. It remains funny -- but forsakes its potential to be a truly original comedy start-to-finish. |
| Film.comJonathan F. RichardsThere are cycles of inspiration and rebirth, but the barbed promise of the early going loses its way in choices aimed at sentimentality rather than, as Harvey Kurtzman memorably put it, humor in a jugular vein. |
| eFilmCritic.comDan Lybarger'The Invention of Lying' is based on a simple idea, but Gervais and Robinson come up with seemingly endless ways to maximize it. |
| Tri-City HeraldGary WolcottTelling a whopper may be a good thing and the reason lying works so well on this planet. The truth is boring. That's one The Invention of Lying's points. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderIts strange concept and storyline make it something of a curiosity, too: you can have fun thinking about it even after it's over. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIn its amiable, quiet, PG-13 way, The Invention of Lying is a remarkably radical comedy. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenA wry case for atheism, The Invention of Lying would have sent many Americans into an uproar if anyone had bothered to see it. |
| Cinemalogue.comRubin SafayaMr. Gervais... has given us a static, crass Phil Connors to introduce the world to belief in the supernatural. Where are the Ghostbusters when you need them? |
