The Hoax[Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle AC3] - DVD

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Cast

• Marcia Gay Harden - Edith Irving
• Zeljko Ivanek
• John Bedford Lloyd
• Peter McRobbie
• Alfred Molina - Richard Suskind
• Alfred Molina - Richard Suskin
• Richard Gere - Clifford Irving
• Hope Davis - Andrea Tate
• Julie Delpy
• Julie Delpy - Nina
• Christopher Evan Welch
• David Aaron Baker
• John Carter
• Stanley Tucci - Shelton Fisher
• Eli Wallach
• Mamie Gummer - Jane
• Alfred Molina - Dick Suskind

Crew

• Producer: Joshua Maurer
• Screenwriter: William Wheeler
• Co-producer: Erin Eggers
• Book Author: Clifford Irving
• Supervising Sound Editor: Brian Langman
• Executive Producer: Gary Levinsohn
• Production Designer: Mark Ricker
• Musical Direction/Supervision: Tracy McKnight
• Executive Producer: Anthony Katagas
• Producer: Leslie Holleran
• Casting: Ali Farrell
• Cinematographer: Oliver Stapleton
• Producer: Bob Yari
• Sound/Sound Designer: Allan Byer
• Producer: Betsy Beers
• Costume Designer: David C. Robinson
• Casting: Laura Rosenthal
• Co-producer: Suzanne Patmore-Gibbs
• Editor: Andrew Mondshein
• Composer (Music Score): Carter Burwell
• Producer: Mark Gordon
• Director: Lasse Hallström
• Sound/Sound Designer: Alan Byer

The Hoax: AMG Review
Craig Butler , AMG

Director Lasse Hallström continues his streak of underperforming but critically respected films with this adaptation of a notorious con man's memoir. Delayed releases for An Unfinished Life (2005) and The Hoax hamstrung their box-office prospects, while Casanova (2005) came and went in a flash from domestic screens, despite a stellar cast and a nimble if perhaps overly PG script. It's a shame the director isn't enjoying more of a mid-career winning streak because his work is top-shelf, and never more so than with this deeply funny, yet psychologically disturbing portrait of a liar who nearly pulls off one of the century's biggest literary scams. Richard Gere turns in one of his career-best performances as Clifford Irving, by turns desperate, needy, charming, and blustering, and rising to a new level of ability in every scene he's appearing opposite the impressive Alfred Molina as Irving's quivering, nerve-wracked partner in crime, Dick Suskind. Their relationship is the film's true heart and it's a pure joy to behold them riffing off each other as their onscreen friendship unravels. The other characters are less richly defined, with class actors Stanley Tucci, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Eli Wallach, and Zeljko Ivanek given a moment here and there but not much else to do. The Hoax tries to be clever by cutting a third-act story development both ways, implying it's equally possible that an unexpected plot twist could have be real or could have been imagined by the increasingly unhinged Irving, but while this annoying attempt at evenhandedness only dilutes the power of the narrative, the overall film is a thoroughly entertaining chronicle of a little-remembered scandal that represents solid, if unjustly ignored work from its talented filmmaker and cast. ~ Craig Butler, All Movie Guide