The Hoax

Starring: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Julie... Review: Richard Gere, nearly unrecognizable with blackened hair and a fake nose, gives one of his very best performances as Clifford Irving, the huckster who won a million-dollar advance from McGraw-Hill in 1971 for writing an authorized biography of the notoriously reclusive tycoon Howard Hughes. The catch? Irving never met Hughes, a fact that only became known when the gazillionaire, played by Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator, gave a telephone news conference to announce the hoax. Irving, who served two years for fraud, has faded from public view. But scams, pulled in the name of weapons of mass destruction or the paternity of Anna Nicole?s baby, are the lingua franca of the new century. Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom has a knack for American stories, including What's Eating Gilbert... Rating: 3 Stars

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