The Invention of Lying
Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson
Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K., Jeffrey Tambor, Fiona Shaw, Rob Lowe, Tina Fey, Donna Sorbello, Stephanie March, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, John Hodgman, Nathan Corddry, Jimmi Simpson, Martin Starr, Jason Bateman, Christopher Guest, Alton Fitzgerald White, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, Rodd Ryan, Michael Patrick Thornton, Arnie Burton, Ashley Atkinson, Bobby Moynihan, Shane Williamson, Stephen Merchant, Cole Jensen, Conner Ryan
2009
United States
Completed
English
100 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asThe Invention of Lying，is aUnited StatesProducerwomen sex，At2009Released in year
。The dialogue language isEnglish，Current Douban rating6.7(For reference only)。
This is a world outside of reality, completely unaware of what a lie is. People work and live normally, with every word spoken by everyone being the truth. A young man named Mark (played by Ricky Gervais) who has just experienced unemployment, heartbreak, and poverty discovers this secret one day—he tells a lie that increases the money in his account, and the people who have never encountered a lie believe him completely. Tasting the sweetness of deceit, Mark begins to exploit this secret, continuously lying to obtain whatever he desires. As Mark's lies become more and more outrageous, more and more people believe him, leading the situation to spiral out of control. Mark gradually realizes that tricking the woman he loves, Jennifer (played by Jennifer Garner), into bed with "the apocalypse is coming" is not what he truly wants; the only way to attain love is still through honesty…