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The Hoax
Comedy, Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy intelligent literary scams, charismatic antiheroes, and escalating lies handled with wit rather than broad farce.
- Tone
- darkly comic, satirical, tense
- Payoff
- amusement, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- deception, ambition, media manipulation, identity, greed
- Setting
- early 1970s, elite publishing offices and cosmopolitan urban milieus
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