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The Hoax
2006
***
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Julie Delpy

It's 1970 and two struggling writers, Clifford Irving and Richard Suskind, come up with an outrageous idea. They'll forge Howard Hughes' autobiography because the hermit-like millionaire is unlikely to contradict anything that they put out. This fact-based story takes liberties with the truth, but it offers a fascinating and entertaining slice of recent history. Based on Irving's book.