The Good Lie

2014 · 110 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 34,213 VOTES · DIR. Philippe Falardeau

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 999 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:34 (PROPELLERS WHIRRING)
00:06:51 (SOBBING SOFTLY)
00:20:21 (RUMBLING IN DISTANCE)
00:27:33 ABITAL: The food is ready.
00:30:54 There will always be a party.
00:35:39 Pick up who?
00:38:43 - My brother's going to be sick. - Uh-oh. Oh, no.
00:42:07 Now, this is called a living room.
00:46:16 So...
00:48:47 upon any potential employer how good you'd be at any given job.
00:51:11 Food for dogs?
00:54:24 (WATER SPLASHING)
01:00:09 What's up, man? Um...
01:03:51 - You are Carrie's boss. - Heh. Nobody's Carrie's boss.
01:07:34 (SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
01:12:21 I teach you.
01:15:06 You're not my chief. I know. We all know. You killed Theo.
01:19:29 You don't have an appointment.
01:21:47 - CARRIE: Wow, this is amazing. - PAMELA: This looks really clean.
01:25:17 Our mothers told us.
01:29:22 I'll sponsor him. I'll pay for his ticket. He can live with me.
01:33:32 - How are you? - Oh. So-so.
01:38:32 Goodbye, my brothers.
01:49:53 (English - US - SDH)

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed999
Dialogue density9.1 lines / min
First line00:01:34
Final line01:49:53

Production Record

DirectorPhilippe Falardeau
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20,000,000
Revenue$3,396,345
IMDb votes34,213