The Good Lie (2014)
"Miracles are made by people who refuse to stop believing."
Critics Score
🎬 74%
(RT: 84%, MC: 65) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Arnold Oceng as Mamere
Ger Duany as Jeremiah
Thad Luckinbill as Matt
Afemo Omilami as Dr. Monyang
Joshua Mikel as Dave
Is The Good Lie good?
It's divisive. Only 69% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 74%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind. Wikipedia ↗
