The Hoax (2006)
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."
ThumbScore
👍 67%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 78%
(RT: 86%, MC: 70) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Is The Hoax good?
It's divisive. 67% audience score, estimated from 248 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 78%.
Overview
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s. Wikipedia ↗
