True Story
Christian Longo, a man on the FBI';;;s most wanted list for murdering his wife and three children in Oregon. He hid in Mexico under the identity of Michael Finkel, a journalist. One day, Finkel receives a phone call from a man regarding an FBI Most Wanted individual named Christian Longo, who';;;s been captured and claimed to be living as Finkel. Longo and Finkel meet and form a potentially marriage shattering bond while Longo is in prison awaiting his trial. Finkel exchanges journalism tips for the real events behind Longo';;;s alleged heinous acts of murdering his family. Through the twists and turns in the movie, only at the end will Finkel uncover the True Story.
28 August 1962, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
12 September 1960, Washington Heights, New York, USA
8 February 1980, Dallas, Texas, USA
October 26, 1952 in USA
17 October 1983, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
April 17, 2016
The only fingerprint the film leaves is the one that adorns its one-sheet.
February 25, 2016
It's all a generally agreeable affair with little impact when all is said and done.
April 18, 2015
It's as good as any work I've seen in a film in 2015, and "True Story" is one of the better movies to come along this year.
December 14, 2015
Occasionally tense but flawed.
April 17, 2015
Director Rupert Goold keeps things appropriately creepy, but True Story is no Capote.
April 20, 2015
Filming a drama about the compromises and conventions of storytelling, Goold falls prey to them. He lacks the pulp verve and the symbolic imagination to illuminate or even convey the characters' mysteries.
July 12, 2016
A fine, engrossing procedural drama.
April 17, 2015
Attention, true crime addicts desperate for a new fix after Serial and The Jinx: This riveting and highly disturbing chiller will satiate your needs.
March 31, 2016
The height of poor taste. Grants notorious men even more notoriety by giving voice to their inexcusable 'travails,' thereby feeding their self-absorption.
October 14, 2015
Franco and Hill's early scenes together maintains intrigue for a while, but True Story never quite indicates that it has something compelling going on beneath the surface.
February 19, 2016
Both characters are so deeply immersed in their own fabrications, any bid at genuine truth is doomed from the beginning. The best part is: We don't care, because we're not expected to like either one.
