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Where the Truth Lies
Where the Truth Lies is a 2005 thriller film written and directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, and Alison Lohman. It is based on Rupert Holmes's 2003 novel of the same name.
The film alternates between 1957, when comedy duo Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth) are at the height of their success, and 1972, when journalist Karen O'Connor (Lohman) is determined to unravel the mystery of a young woman found dead in their hotel suite 15 years before.
In 1957, immediately after co-hosting a 39-hour polio telethon in Miami, entertainers Lanny Morris and Vince Collins fly north to open the new showroom of a New Jersey hotel run by mobster Sally Sanmarco, who has intimidated them into appearing. In their hotel suite, the nude body of Miami college student Maureen O'Flaherty is found in a bathtub.
Maureen, an aspiring journalist working for the summer at the duo's Miami hotel (also owned by Sanmarco), had interviewed them in Miami for her college newspaper just before she disappeared. Police investigators did not connect Morris or Collins to Maureen's death, officially attributed to a drug overdose. Soon after, the two men's comedy partnership is dissolved, despite their success and dependence on one another.
Many unanswered questions remain around Maureen's death; the most confusing aspect is how she got from Miami where she was last seen to New Jersey where her her body was found.
Fifteen years later, journalist Karen O'Connor, who as a young polio survivor first met the duo at the 1957 telethon and has since idolized them, accepts a job to ghostwrite Collins' autobiography — a deal from which he will earn $1 million. Karen makes a promise to Maureen's mother that she will find the truth of how her daughter died. The project is complicated by Karen receiving anonymously sent chapters from a book Morris is writing.
Karen encounters Morris by chance on a Pan Am flight to New York; he is accompanied by his valet, Reuben, and manager, Irv. During the flight she shares a dinner table with them. Wishing to keep her identity secret, she introduces herself as "Bonnie Trout," the name of her best friend with whom she has traded apartments. Morris and Karen hit it off and have sex in his hotel. He disappears the next morning, apparently without leaving her a note.
Under her own name, Karen begins to work on the Collins book. Complications arise when Collins invites her to an all-day working session at his Los Angeles home and she learns that Morris will be joining them as well. She abruptly invents an excuse to leave, but meets Morris in the driveway, and her masquerade is revealed — Morris learns she has lied about who she is, and Collins discovers that the woman helping him write his memoirs has had an affair with his ex-partner.
Where the Truth Lies
Where the Truth Lies is a 2005 thriller film written and directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, and Alison Lohman. It is based on Rupert Holmes's 2003 novel of the same name.
The film alternates between 1957, when comedy duo Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth) are at the height of their success, and 1972, when journalist Karen O'Connor (Lohman) is determined to unravel the mystery of a young woman found dead in their hotel suite 15 years before.
In 1957, immediately after co-hosting a 39-hour polio telethon in Miami, entertainers Lanny Morris and Vince Collins fly north to open the new showroom of a New Jersey hotel run by mobster Sally Sanmarco, who has intimidated them into appearing. In their hotel suite, the nude body of Miami college student Maureen O'Flaherty is found in a bathtub.
Maureen, an aspiring journalist working for the summer at the duo's Miami hotel (also owned by Sanmarco), had interviewed them in Miami for her college newspaper just before she disappeared. Police investigators did not connect Morris or Collins to Maureen's death, officially attributed to a drug overdose. Soon after, the two men's comedy partnership is dissolved, despite their success and dependence on one another.
Many unanswered questions remain around Maureen's death; the most confusing aspect is how she got from Miami where she was last seen to New Jersey where her her body was found.
Fifteen years later, journalist Karen O'Connor, who as a young polio survivor first met the duo at the 1957 telethon and has since idolized them, accepts a job to ghostwrite Collins' autobiography — a deal from which he will earn $1 million. Karen makes a promise to Maureen's mother that she will find the truth of how her daughter died. The project is complicated by Karen receiving anonymously sent chapters from a book Morris is writing.
Karen encounters Morris by chance on a Pan Am flight to New York; he is accompanied by his valet, Reuben, and manager, Irv. During the flight she shares a dinner table with them. Wishing to keep her identity secret, she introduces herself as "Bonnie Trout," the name of her best friend with whom she has traded apartments. Morris and Karen hit it off and have sex in his hotel. He disappears the next morning, apparently without leaving her a note.
Under her own name, Karen begins to work on the Collins book. Complications arise when Collins invites her to an all-day working session at his Los Angeles home and she learns that Morris will be joining them as well. She abruptly invents an excuse to leave, but meets Morris in the driveway, and her masquerade is revealed — Morris learns she has lied about who she is, and Collins discovers that the woman helping him write his memoirs has had an affair with his ex-partner.