The Trouble with the Truth

Name: The Trouble with the Truth
Genre: Drama
Released: September 14, 2012
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 81

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Winning Edge Partners | Release Date: September 14, 2012 | R

Summary: When his daughter gets engaged, an aging artist begins to fall for his ex wife.

Director: Jim Hemphill

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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Roger Ebert

Jan 9, 2013

Part of the greatness of this film is that it not only avoids any simple answers, but it also takes us into the awkward contradictions and internal dishonesties that help us look at the mirror each day. Read full review

F. X. Feeney

Sep 12, 2012

There isn't a false note in either the dialogue or the performances. The characters as written and played have such intricate backstories, such complicated mixtures of motive, that their evening grows uniquely, movingly suspenseful. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Sep 14, 2012

Thanks to the residual love and attraction between the pair, this cocktail-fueled reunion never descends into a "Virginia Woolf"-like grudge match but, rather, remains an equitable, tender, sometimes surprising game of hard truth-telling. Read full review

Sara Stewart

Sep 13, 2012

Thompson and Shea both dig into their intelligent, flawed characters with zeal. Read full review

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prince12

Nov 15, 2018

After watching this movie, I felt bad, it was one heartwarming movie i have seen. I did not understand the enf=d of the movie but I like this movie.

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Lyn

Jul 7, 2014

This is sort of a poor man's "Before Midnight." Our couple is past the dewy meeting of the "Before Sunrise" phase and the winsome revelations of the "Before Sunset" phase and actually past the edge-of-disaster "Before Midnight" phase. They've already split and yet there's still a lot to comeThis is sort of a poor man's "Before Midnight." Our couple is past the dewy meeting of the "Before Sunrise" phase and the winsome revelations of the "Before Sunset" phase and actually past the edge-of-disaster "Before Midnight" phase. They've already split and yet there's still a lot to come to grips with. Oh -- and they're not Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, which is a bit of a problem if you love those other talkathon films. Shea and Thompson have chemistry, but some scenes seemed awkwardly soap opera-ish. (Virtually NO one plays "drunk" well. I wonder why this is.) Yet as they grapple with the fact that "it wasn't the marriage that was irreversible; it was the divorce," they cover some ground a lot of people will relate to. At one point Shea says in frustration that it can drive you crazy to contemplate all the decisions and alternatives you faced in the past, knowing every alternative could have made your life substantially different. But most of us DO contemplate that, for better or worse.… Expand

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netflic

Dec 26, 2012

FAKE. That is 4-letter "F" word that describes the movie. I wonder why it gets high critic score.
While I was watching it I felt that actors were repeating someone else's words making faces in the process.
Sometimes a sentence would require time to process an answer but the answer followedFAKE. That is 4-letter "F" word that describes the movie. I wonder why it gets high critic score.
While I was watching it I felt that actors were repeating someone else's words making faces in the process.
Sometimes a sentence would require time to process an answer but the answer followed faster than the previous one ended.
If a movie like this is nothing but talk (which I don't mind) it should be done masterfully. This movie is not...… Expand

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