The Good Lie

The Good Lie

Movie |

Refugee | Kansas, Usa

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  • Genre(s): Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Philippe Falardeau
  • Cast(s): Reese Witherspoon, Corey Stoll, Thad Luckinbill, Sarah Baker, Maria Howell See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 50min
  • Music: Martin Léon
  • Award(s): Grand Jury Prize 2015 (Won)
    National Film 2015 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Bluff, Eternity
  • Story:
    A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
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7.4/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
Ratings

7.4/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
Grand Jury Prize Award

Best Feature Film | 2015 | Philippe

Jury Special Prize Award

2014 | Philippe

Nominations
National Film Award

Best Breakthrough Performance in a Film | 2015 | Reese

Best Newcomer | 2015 | Arnold

Humanitas Prize Award

Feature Film Category | 2016 | Margaret

Black Reel Award

Outstanding Breakthrough Performance Female | 2015 | Kuoth

Image Award

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture | 2015 | Margaret

BOX OFFICE

Budget 20,000,000 USD

Box Office Collection 3,396,345 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

"The Lost Boys of Sudan", the name given to over 20,000 boys of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups, who were displaced and/or orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War, served as inspiration for the movie.

Emmanuel Jal (Paul) described his real child-soldier atrocities in BBC's Horizon (1964), season forty-five, episode eighteen, "How Violent Are You?"

Ger Duany is a Sudanese refugee who was a child soldier before being granted asylum in the United States.

Received a five minute standing ovation when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Much attention has been directed toward the Lost Boys, but their counterparts, the Lost Girls, are often ignored. Even before the conflict, culture-based inequalities heavily influenced their post-conflict recovery and integration in refugee camps and resettlement programs. Boys were placed into boys-only areas of the camp upon arrival. According to Sudanese culture, the girls could not be left alone, so they were placed with surviving family members or adopted by other Sudanese families. Although these family placement practices provided security, domestic work often prevented the girls from attending school. Even when allowed to attend, housework often kept girls behind. Many girls were abused by their host families and by other refugees. Some were even sold as brides. When US resettlement program began in 1999, one requirement was that the children must be orphaned. Because these girls had been living within a family unit, they were no longer considered orphans. Of the 4,000 Sudanese refugees approved in 2000, only 89 were women.

Popular Dialogues

"Young Jeremiah: Some of these people have no color. Young Mamere: Because they are born without skin."

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