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Telling Lies In America (1997)

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Average Rating:6.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: An immigrant teenager circumnavigates the social strictures of 1950s Cleveland by scamming his way into the good graces of local hotshot D.J. Billy Magic, an unctuous sort whose friendship with the... An immigrant teenager circumnavigates the social strictures of 1950s Cleveland by scamming his way into the good graces of local hotshot D.J. Billy Magic, an unctuous sort whose friendship with the boy brings out his tender side. A relative breath of fresh air from screenwriter Joe Eszterhaus, whose own childhood informs the story. [More]

Starring: Kevin Bacon, Brad Renfro, Calista Flockhart, Paul Dooley

Starring: Kevin Bacon, Brad Renfro, Calista Flockhart, Paul Dooley, Maximilian Schell, Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Luke Wilson, Damen Fletcher, Jerry Swindall, Ben Saypol

Director: Guy Ferland

Director: Guy Ferland
Screenwriter: Joe Eszterhas
Producer: Fran Rubel Kuzui, Ben Myron
Composer: Nicholas Pike

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