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Telling Lies in America

Telling Lies in America

1997, Movie, 1h 41min

A 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually slips into the payola and corruption of the entertainment world.

Country: United States

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Maximilian Schell,

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Critic Darren Bignell

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6

...a creditable air of earthy realism blows among these Cadillac fins and gelled quiffs, with shiny but shallow 60s pop a perfect metaphor for the tarnishing American dream.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Russell Smith

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6

...a gentle and affecting ode to universal growing-up conflicts within a beautifully rendered evocation of a specific time and place.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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Telling Lies in America was released in theaters on August 2, 1997.