The Good Lie

The Good Lie is a drama film directed by French Canadian filmmaker Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar). From the official synopsis:

They were known simply as “The Lost Boys.” Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan, which began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3600 lost boys, as well as girls, to America. In “The Good Lie,” Philippe Falardeau, (writer and director of the Oscar-nominated Foreign Language film “Monsieur Lazhar”) brings the story of their survival and triumph to life. Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon (“Walk the Line”) stars alongside Sudanese actors Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal, and newcomer Kuoth Wiel, some of whom were also children of war and lived through traumatic events not unlike those depicted in the film.

The film is based on real life events surrounding the Lost Boys, but the characters are all fictional. “It is inspired by the collective experience of the Lost Boys,” explains director Philippe Falardeau, “who were able to flee the destruction of their villages when the north, which had the military apparatus, began pounding the south, annihilating everything and everyone in their path. Many boys were able to escape because they were in the fields taking care of the cattle.”

The Good Lie is rated 14A.

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