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The Hoax

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

2006 · R · 1h 56m

Directed by Lasse Hallström

6.3

TMDB audience score
248 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.

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Cast

  • Richard Gere
    Clifford Irving

  • Alfred Molina
    Dick Suskind

  • Marcia Gay Harden
    Edith Irving

  • Hope Davis
    Andrea Tate

  • Julie Delpy
    Nina Van Pallandt

  • Stanley Tucci
    Shelton Fisher

  • David Aaron Baker
    Brad Silber

  • Mamie Gummer
    Dana

  • Željko Ivanek
    Ralph Graves

  • Eli Wallach
    Noah Dietrich

  • Myk Watford
    Sergent Daniels

  • John Bedford Lloyd
    Frank Mccullough

  • Peter McRobbie
    George Gordon Holmes

  • John Carter
    Harold McGraw

  • James Biberi
    McGraw-Hill Security

  • Christopher Evan Welch
    Albert Vanderkamp

  • Raul Julia Jr.
    Bike Messenger

  • Judi Barton
    Marion