Starring Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, and Alison Lohman, directed by Atom Egoyan, and based on the critically-acclaimed novel by Rupert Holmes.

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Although Where the Truth Lies will not be making its world premiere until October, its advance screening at this year's Cannes Film Festival has already generated praise and excitement. "Atom Egoyan has delivered a big, slick and sexy mystery," hails Ray Bennett in The Hollywood Reporter, calling the film
"a sumptuous tale of show business hype and duplicity. Boasting a handsome cast, top-flight design and evocative music, the film should have no trouble attracting audiences seeking high-style, grownup entertainment!"

Roger Ebert writes from France, "Atom Egoyan has made a terrific new film! Where the Truth Lies is one of the big successes of the first weekend at Cannes. The movie has a magnificently convoluted noir plot, although its strongest quality is the nature of the film's human relationships."

And Gerald Peary of The Boston Phoenix declares: "Egoyan’s film is based on Rupert Holmes’s witty, urbane 2003 roman à clef imagining the sexually steamy behind-the-careers of a randy 1950s comedy team. The first part of the movie, set in garish Miami nightclubs and New Jersey Mafia haunts, is superbly zesty and stylish, virtuoso scenes you’d dream of getting from Scorsese yet haven’t gotten since GoodFellas (1990). The dénouement is finely chilled!"

The movie's stars received universal kudos for what many deemed to be among the finest performances of their notable careers.

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