Taglines: It was an accident.
The Lie Movie Storyline. Divorced father Jay drives his daughter Kayla to a ballet retreat. On the way, they find Kayla’s best friend, Britney, on the side of the road, and give her a lift to the same retreat. After pulling over so Britney can go to the bathroom in the woods, Jay hears Kayla scream and finds her sitting alone on a bridge over a river. Kayla claims she pushed Britney off the bridge. Jay checks the area for Britney’s body, but does not find it and assumes she drowned and was washed away. Kayla finds Britney’s purse and they go to see her mother, Rebecca, an attorney.
At Rebecca’s home, Kayla tells her that she murdered Britney. Britney’s father, Sam, arrives in search for his daughter. When he asks to speak to Kayla, Rebecca lies, saying she is at the doctor. Later on, Sam gets suspicious and returns to discover that Rebecca lied and Kayla is at home. After a physical altercation with Jay, Sam threatens to go to the police.
Noting that Britney had a bruise on her face, Jay convinces Rebecca to try and put suspicion on Sam for the disappearance. She contacts a police associate, Detective Kenji Tagata, to accuse Sam of abusing Britney. When Kenji interrogates Sam, he denies hitting Britney and admits that she has run away before. Kenji interviews Kayla, who says that Sam has a bad temper and hit Britney before.
Sam spots Kayla outside Jay’s apartment and tries to grab her, but she retreats back into the house as he is chasing her, banging on the windows, and screaming her name. Jay and Rebecca try to bury Britney’s phone behind Sam’s house, but he catches them in the act. Before they flee, Sam tells them that he knows Kayla killed Britney. When Sam appears in front of their car, Rebecca purposefully drives into him. Jay and Rebecca consider calling for help before letting him bleed to death and leaving his corpse in the road.
The Lie is a 2018 Canadian-American psychological horror film written and directed by Veena Sud. The film is a remake of the 2015 German film We Monsters, and stars Mireille Enos, Peter Sarsgaard and Joey King. Jason Blum serves as a producer under his Blumhouse Television banner. The Lie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2018. It was later released on October 6, 2020, by Amazon Studios, as the first installment in the anthological Welcome to the Blumhouse film series.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2018. In August 2020, Amazon Studios acquired distribution rights to the film, and premiered it on October 6, 2020. Along with Black Box, it’s one of the first two movies released from Blumhouse Productions’s 8-film anthology Welcome to the Blumhouse.
The Lie (2020)
Directed by: Veena Sud
Starring: Mireille Enos, Peter Sarsgaard, Joey King, Cas Anvar, Devery Jacobs, Nicholas Lea, Patti Kim, Alan Van Sprang, Dani Kind, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Jennifer Crystal Foley
Screenplay by: Veena Sud
Production Design by: Elisa Sauve
Cinematography by: Peter Wunstorf
Film Editing by: Phil Fowler
Costume Design by: Leslie Kavanagh
Set Decoration by: Liesl Deslauriers
Art Direction by: Shelley Silverman, Francesca Valente
Music by: Tamar-kali
MPAA Rating: R for language throughout, some violence and brief sexuality.
Distributed by: Amazon Studios
Release Date: September 13, 2018 (TIFF), October 6, 2020 (United States)
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