{4.5\/5} “Do we have time to get to a motel or do we need to do it right here?”<\/p>\n
In a world where everyone tells the truth, Mark writes screenplays — of course, they’re all based on history. Unfortunately he was stuck with the 1300s and no one wants to see a movie about the plague. So he was fired, and then he was evicted. But while withdrawing money at the bank he stumbled on something extraordinary — the concept of a lie.<\/p>\n
The Invention of Lying<\/strong> was released in 2009.<\/p>\n If you were the only person in the world who lied, what would you do? It’s the opposite of Liar Liar<\/strong> — instead of one person having to tell the truth, everyone except for one person has to tell the truth.<\/p>\n If you like Ricky Gervais, you’ll like this movie — he wrote it with his co-director. If you don’t, maybe you won’t.<\/p>\n I liked it a lot. It’s funny — characters say things that people normally wouldn’t say. Not only do people not lie, they volunteer truthful information in situations where in the real world they wouldn’t.<\/p>\n Jennifer Garner does a great job as a woman who’s conflicted about what she wants in life.<\/p>\n The music is by\u00a0Tim Atack (Reuniting the Rubins<\/strong>).<\/p>\n Ricky Gervais (Ghost Town<\/strong>) stars as Mark. Jennifer Garner (Juno<\/strong>) plays the woman Mark would like to date.<\/p>\n Jonah Hill (Megamind<\/strong><\/a>), Louis C.K. (the TV show Louie<\/strong>), and Philip Seymour Hoffman (A Late Quartet<\/strong><\/a>) play Mark’s friends. Jeffrey Tambor (the TV show Arrested Development<\/strong>), Tina Fey (Megamind<\/strong>), and Rob Lowe (the TV show Parks and Recreation<\/strong><\/a>) play people Mark works with. Fionnula Flanagan (Waking Ned Devine<\/strong>) plays Mark’s mother. Ruben Santiago-Hudson (the TV show Castle<\/strong><\/a>) plays Mark’s landlord.<\/p>\n The movie was directed by Ricky Gervais (Cemetery Junction<\/strong>) and Matthew Robinson (his first movie).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “Do we have time to get to a motel or do we need to do it right here?” In a world where everyone tells the truth, Mark writes screenplays — of course, they’re all based on history. Unfortunately he was stuck with the 1300s and no one wants to see a movie about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,6,5,53],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}