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Where The Truth Lies

Where the Truth Lies
Where the truth lies.jpg
Original release poster
Directed by Atom Egoyan
Produced by Robert Lantos
Screenplay by Atom Egoyan
Based on Where the Truth Lies
by Rupert Holmes
Starring Kevin Bacon
Colin Firth
Alison Lohman
Rachel Blanchard
Sonja Bennett
Music by Mychael Danna
Cinematography Paul Sarossy
Edited by Susan Shipton
Production
company
Serendipity Point Films
Telefilm Canada
The Movie Network
Distributed by THINKFilm
United Kingdom:
Momentum Pictures
Release date
  • 13 May 2005 (2005-05-13) (Cannes)
  • 7 October 2005 (2005-10-07) (Canada)
  • 21 October 2005 (2005-10-21) (United States)
Running time
107 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Canada
Language English
Budget $25 million
Box office $3,477,678
Where The Truth Lies: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Film score by Mychael Danna
Released 1 November 2005
Length 46:28
Label Varèse Sarabande

Where the Truth Lies is a 2005 British-Canadian erotic thriller film written and directed by Atom Egoyan. Based on Rupert Holmes' 2003 novel of the same name, the film stars Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, and Alison Lohman.

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-long polio telethon in a Miami television studio, 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 order to improve his own image. In their New Jersey hotel suite, shortly after their arrival, the nude body of Miami college student Maureen O'Flaherty is found in a bathtub.

Maureen, an aspiring journalist working for the summer as a server at the comedy team's Miami hotel (which is also owned by Sanmarco), had been researching an article for her school newspaper on the comedy team, and had interviewed them in Miami just before she disappeared. Police investigation in no way connects either Morris or Collins to Maureen's death, which is officially attributed to a drug overdose. Soon after her body is discovered, the two men's comedy partnership is dissolved, despite their enormous success and the closeness of their dependence on one another.

Many unanswered questions remain for the investigators of Maureen's death; the most confusing aspect is how Maureen's body made it from Miami to New Jersey at the same time the comedians were traveling.

Fifteen years later, journalist Karen O'Connor, who as a young polio survivor first met the duo at the same telethon portrayed in the movie's opening sequence, accepts a job to ghostwrite Vince Collins' autobiography—a deal from which Collins will earn $1 million, which he badly needs. Karen makes a promise to Mrs. O'Flaherty that she will find the truth of how her daughter Maureen died. The project is complicated by the fact that she keeps receiving anonymously sent chapters from a book that Lanny Morris himself has written.


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