The Hoax

This was the most fun I've had with a movie in a long time. Richard Gere gives a standout performance Clifford Irving, as the daring writer of the notorious Howard Hughes fake autobiography. He fooled smart people into giving him a... Full review

I was bored watching this movie...sure it's a interesting true tale with an interesting story, but it was told at such a snails pace, and I really never felt involved or engrossed in the story at all... Full review

This is a very well done film. And I was delighted to find how entertaining the film was. I loved Richard Gere as Clifford Irving and I thought that Alfred Molina was honest and convincing and I thought that Marcia Gay... Full review

One of those movies for the more intellectual as it is a true story about a writer that does an autobiography to save his finances without ever meeting the man he is writing about. Not such a big deal but it... Full review

This is a totally excellent movie with some historical substance to it, depicting one of the most unusual literary events that ever transpired and to boot it involved Howard Hughes.... Full review

they left out so much and add so much that it's practically a work of fiction. Gere, a veteran actor, (as well as Molina and the rest of the outstanding cast) could carry any movie. unfortunately the story tried to make... Full review

When you see Richard Gere, on the markee these days, you don't expect much. But he presents a convincing portrayal of the con man he's playing. This is also based on a true story. The supporting cast is very good also.... Full review

I'm a history buff and I remember the original scandal. I thought this would be fascinating. But there wasn't a moment when I cared about anyone or anything in this movie. It didn't even seem like a big-stakes deal to me.... Full review

Richard Gere has never been better in this complex and completely engaging "what the heck is this guy trying to pull off" caper. The film uses some stock footage from the early seventies to give the viewer a sense of the... Full review

A more then interesting story played out with near visual perfection. The director and cast need to be commended. Having no real prior knowledge of the true life book and events, I was fascinated from start to finish. Gere and Molina... Full review

It's a good film....The movie is unique, and anymore, that's quite the compliment.....I really think that Molina is one of the best actors working today....Eli Wallach makes a fantastic cameo.... ... Full Review

It's a good film....The Hoax is like a long slow Heist/True Crime film, except there's only one heist and it takes two hours to fail.....The movie is unique, and anymore, that's quite the compliment.....I really think that Molina is one of the best actors working today....Eli Wallach makes a fantastic cameo.... ... Full Review

Historic reenactments that serve to let the audience take a look behind the scenes such as "The Hoax" work best as a film when they don't pull back the entire curtain all at once and screenwriter William Wheeler and director Lasse Hallstrom seem to be the same wavelength. ... Full Review

Historic reenactments that serve to let the audience take a look behind the scenes such as "The Hoax" work best as a film when they don't pull back the entire curtain all at once and screenwriter William Wheeler and director Lasse Hallstrom seem to be the same wavelength. ... Full Review

a great writer and apparently, a great actor -.... ... Full Review

Director Julien Temple is to take on the story of art faker Elmyr de Hory, written by the equally notorious hoax biographer Clifford Irving. Richard Gere played him in "The Hoax" in 2007. ... Full Article

Mr. Irving, a journalist, spent 17 months in jail after he sold a bogus autobiography of Howard R. Hughes to the McGraw Hill Book Company in 1972 for a $765,000 advance. ... Full Article

Meanwhile, Irving is working on the book, digging up all the information he can about the reclusive Howard Hughes. He and Suskind manage to make an illegal copy of a valuable manuscript written by an old associate of Hughes. They ... Full Article

The most inscrutable and comic line in The Hoax comes at the start. Approximating and teasing a familiar claim, the movie asserts that it is "based on... actual events." ... Full Article

Richard Gere plays the 20th century's most notorious literary conman, Clifford Irving in Miramax's "The Hoax." The thing to keep in mind while watching these events unfold is that the story is based on Irving's own autobiography chronicling the events,... ... Full Article

Its not a terrible scheme as such schemes go, though its inevitably going to blow up. What makes it not terrible is that Hughes is so isolated that, as Clifford and his agent and sometime research assistant, Dick (Alfred Molina)... ... Full Article