A Little White Lie (2022)

Directed by

Michael Maren

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

M

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A handyman shares his name with a famous novelist. He gets mistaken for the writer and invited to a literary festival. He goes along with the mix up until the real writer shows up.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfuleasygoingamusinglow-stakesquirkyslightly awkward

What happens

A Little White Lie is a 2022 American independent comedy film written and directed by Michael Maren and based on the 2014 novel Shriver by Chris Belden. It stars Michael Shannon, Kate Hudson, Don Johnson, and Zach Braff. The film is about a handyman with the same name as a famous writer who is mistakenly invited to a literary festival and is welcomed by fans and writers, but is exposed as an impostor when the real Shriver arrives. Production was initially set to begin in 2017 but was postponed to 2020. With a new cast, filming began in February 2020 and was one week short of wrapping before the COVID-19 pandemic halted production until over a year later. It was released in theaters and video on demand on March 3, 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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