
Musician and starving artist Robert reconsiders his own failed marriage to Emily after his daughter announces that she's engaged.... (Full plot summary below)
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Musician and starving artist Robert reconsiders his own failed marriage to Emily after his daughter announces that she's engaged.
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| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckA divorced couple rehash their relationship in this touching indie drama. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertPart of the greatness of this film is that it not only avoids any simple answers, but it also takes us into the awkward contradictions and internal dishonesties that help us look at the mirror each day. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesOmer MozaffarJim Hemphill's "The Trouble with the Truth" is a pleasant surprise that gets better as the movie unfolds. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThanks to the residual love and attraction between the pair, this cocktail-fueled reunion never descends into a "Virginia Woolf"-like grudge match but, rather, remains an equitable, tender, sometimes surprising game of hard truth-telling. |
| New York PostSara StewartThompson and Shea both dig into their intelligent, flawed characters with zeal. |
| VarietyJohn AndersonAlthough they talk enough to qualify for radio, John Shea and Lea Thompson make the high-wire act of "The Trouble With the Truth" a convincing, moving and provocative two-hander. |
| VODzilla.coMatthew TurnerHemphill's assured direction, coupled with some skillful editing, allows the sharply written dialogue to flow naturally, without the material ever feeling too stagey. |
| Village VoiceF. X. FeeneyThere isn't a false note in either the dialogue or the performances. The characters as written and played have such intricate backstories, such complicated mixtures of motive, that their evening grows uniquely, movingly suspenseful. |
| Eye for FilmAmber WilkinsonThe film captures the mixture of remembered intimacy and arguments and the way these emotions can swirl around one another, one minute sparking conflict, the next an unexpected moment of joy and.. a level of empathy. |
| Film ThreatMark BellShea and Thompson are up against it due to the basic premise alone, so they could be somewhat forgiven for stumbling here or there. But they don't... |