The Good Liar (2019)

Directed by

Bill Condon

Genre

drama film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 1,280 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging con artist targets a wealthy widow he meets online. As he puts his plan into motion to steal her fortune, he encounters unexpected complications from her past and his own.

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What happens

The Good Liar is a 2019 crime thriller film directed and produced by Bill Condon and written by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the 2015 novel The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle. It stars Ian McKellen as a career con artist who meets a wealthy widow (Helen Mirren) online, and then discovers that his plan to steal her fortune has unexpected roadblocks. The film premiered at the BFI Southbank in London on October 28, 2019. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2019, and in the United States on November 15, 2019. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $33 million against a budget of $10 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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