If you didn't know that the bulk of Lasse Halstrom's film about the writer who conned venerable publishing house McGraw-Hill and
Life magazine into believing he'd scored the get of a lifetime — the confidence of notoriously reclusive, Machiavellian multimillionaire Howard Hughes — was based on fact, you'd dismiss it as too ridiculous to be true. But it was true, and more amazing still, shameless scam-dog Clifford Irving came shockingly close to getting away with it.
New York, 1971: As the fate of his embattled The Autobiography of Howard Hughes hangs in the balance, writer Irving (Richard Gere) and his icy editor Andrea Tate (Hope Davis) stand ...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
116 mins