The Good Lie
Miracles are made by people who refuse to stop believing.
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9/10/2014Runtime
110 minsGenres
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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.
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EnglishBudget
$20,000,000Revenue
$3,396,345Homepage
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A warmhearted story about young Sudanese refugees navigating American life and their own guilt, anchored by genuine relationships and the complicated weight of survival. It's earnest and gently funny, never losing sight of the trauma underneath the adjustment comedy.
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