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.
Director: Lasse Hallström
Stars: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden, Julie Delpy.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462338/
Purchased with something else.
Enjoyable. Gere's portrayal made it very understandable why Clifford Irving did this. I got the impression that the moments where they almost got caught, and didn't, or needed to invent answers to unanticipated questions in the moment, were like a gambler's high, and CI at least was addicted, needed/wanted that excitement.
Plot point: CI was shown as a good enough forger to make at least 2 documents. His prior book was Fake, about an art forger. Orson Welles made the movie F for Fake ('73) about them and other forgers.
Fascinating to hear the details that CI & co-writer invented about HH bribing Nixon associates hit reality, and the Nixon Whitehouse ordered the Watergate breakin to see what else the DNC might have.
2 c.tracks is 1 too many. I didn't get much out of the producers' track except the desire to punch the male producer for interrupting and talking over the woman.
Rated 6.7 (15,543).
I bought this on a hunch that Gere would make this better than it sounded or the rating indicated. I was right. I wonder what else of his is worth the risk.
Miramax+, dir. Hallstrom; 8
