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The Good Lie

Name: The Good Lie
Director: Philippe Falardeau
Genre: Drama
Released: 2014-09-10
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Corey Stoll, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Thad Luckinbill

Drama

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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Cast

Reese WitherspoonCorey StollArnold OcengGer DuanyThad LuckinbillAfemo OmilamiSarah BakerJoshua MikelMike PniewskiLindsey GarrettEmmanuel JalKuoth Wiel

Director

Philippe Falardeau

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