The Lie (2011 film)

The Lie
Directed by Joshua Leonard
Produced by
  • Mary Pat Bentel
  • Daniel Long
Starring Joshua Leonard
Jess Weixler
Mark Webber
Music by Peter Raeburn
Cinematography Benjamin Kasulke
Edited by Greg O'Bryant
Release dates
 November 18, 2011
Running time
 80 minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Lie is a 2011 American drama/comedy film written and directed by Joshua Leonard with additional writing by Jeff Feuerzeig, Mark Webber, and Jess Weixler, based on the short story The Lie by T. Coraghessan Boyle, printed in The New Yorker.[1] The film stars Joshua Leonard as Lonnie, Jess Weixler as Clover, and Mark Webber as Tank. The film is about how a man's life is altered unexpectedly after telling a lie to get out of work. The original short story was sixteen pages long.[2] The crew spent two and a half weeks shooting the film, and six months editing it.[3] The film had its world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Cast

Production

Joshua Leonard had been on the lookout for a story to be made into a movie, when he read the short story, The Lie, which was in the April 14, 2008 issue of The New Yorker. He realized that the story was a good fit for an independent film that could be made in Los Angeles, using collaborators he already knew in the area.[4] For the baby Xana, the filmmakers cast Violet Long (an infant at that time) whose parents are Daniel (the film's co-producer) and Darby Long.

Reviews

References

  1. ↑ Boyle, T. Coraghessan (2008-04-14). "The Lie". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
  2. ↑ Leonard, Joshua (2011-11-17). "Joshua Leonard Talks The Lie". MovieWeb (Interview). Interview with B. Alan Orange. Retrieved 2016-05-27. I took the original short story, which was sixteen pages, which was phenomenal, but it needed a lot of work to translate it into a feature film.
  3. ↑ Leonard, Joshua (2011-11-23). "Joshua Leonard Does "The Lie"". The Wall Street Journal (Interview). Interview with Dennis Nishi. Retrieved 2016-05-27. We shot the film for two and a half weeks but we were in the editing room putting it together for six months.
  4. ↑ Leonard, Joshua (2011-11-17). "Interview: Joshua Leonard (Writer/Director, 'The Lie')". PopOptiq (Interview). Interview with Simon Howell. North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Retrieved 2016-05-30. ... from a production standpoint, ['The Lie' story] resonated because it was something that could be done in Los Angeles as a truly independent film, it was a story that could be told in large part with a group of collaborators that I already had surrounding me.
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