Lie Exposed Movie Storyline. Recovering alcoholic Melanie (Leslie Hope) has been sober for many years and is in a happy marriage with her husband Frank (Bruce Greenwood) in Toronto. When she receives a terminal diagnosis from her doctor, she leaves Frank and heads to Los Angeles for a bender.
While there, she meets a tintype photographer (Jeff Kober) and agrees to pose for him at his downtown studio. The two have an affair, but she eventually goes back to Toronto, and tells Frank she wants to be with him in spite of her affair. Now sober, Melanie, along with Frank, stage a surprise art show for their friends of the photos Melanie posed for in Los Angeles. The exhibition of the tintypes ignites passionate and disparate discussions amongst the group, none of whom realize Melanie is the subject of this intimate and provocative work.
Lie Exposed is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jerry Ciccoritti and released in 2019. An adaptation of Jeff Kober’s theatrical play Pornography, the film stars Leslie Hope as Melanie, a woman who responds to a cancer diagnosis by abandoning her husband Frank (Bruce Greenwood) to go to California and pose nude for a tintype photographer (Kober), before returning home to Toronto when the photographs are slated to be exhibited in a gallery show.
The film’s cast also includes Benjamin Ayres, Megan Follows, Kris Holden-Ried, David Hewlett, Grace Lynn Kung, Daniel Maslany, Kristin Lehman and Tony Nappo. The film premiered in November 2019 at the Windsor International Film Festival. Robert Carli received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Score at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.
Lie Exposed (2020)
Directed by: Jerry Ciccoritti
Starring: Leslie Hope, Jeff Kober, Megan Follows, Bruce Greenwood, David Hewlett, Kris Holden-Ried, Grace Lynn Kung, Kristin Lehman, Jeff Kober, Daniel Maslany, Paula Rivera, Tony Nappo
Screenplay by: Jeff Kober
Production Design by: Rocco Matteo
Cinematography by: Alex Gomez
Film Editing by: George Roulston
Costume Design by: Morganne Newson
Set Decoration by: Stephen J. MacDougall
Music by: Robert Carli
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Indican Pictures
Release Date: November 10, 2020
