Thanks for the memories!

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The look and psychological twists made me watch this film more than once. The film is titillating. But, the more I delved into the story, the less satisfied I became. Kind of like listening to someone talk endlessly, but you're too drunk to tell them to shut-up. This film is a bit boozy too.

We have to take a lot for granted when we watch movies. Everyone knows this but there is only so much you can take before the mind clicks off. This happened to me ten minutes in. The premise is daft to the point of risible. A comic duo are presented to the audience as the biggest thing in show biz. But this is ridiculous. It could never have been in the period in which this film is set. When radio was king it was different. And there is more. This duo has one comic who is English. Like Laurel and Hardy? Martin and Lewis were big but no one ran screaming after them. Women did not faint with excitement like they did for Frank Sinatra, and they do here. The film hinges on the comic duo being the hottest show in town, so much so that an attempt to blackmail them leads to dire consequences. I tried to follow the shifting root of the plot but found myself saying again and again, this simply does not add up. There's plenty of soft porn and a short lesbian scene thrown in to keep the punters happy. And a little attempted sodomy for good measure. The lobsters in the ice box are great. I have seen to movies by Atom and both have been blown up as great by the press. I pass. A movie for 17 year old boys.

I watched "Where the Truth Lies" on DVD - uncut, all sex included - and found it both fascinating and disappointing - frustrating, as if there were a missed opportunity somewhere. So I got the book from the library, thinking maybe there was some choice made in the translation from print to screen that skewed things.Turns out the source of my frustration, the thing that felt "wrong" was in the book, and Atom Egoyan stayed 99% true to the book.The film's problem is that it is a story told in the voice and from the point of view of the least interesting character - K. Connor. In both the movie and the book, the most vibrant, passionate, interesting point of view belongs to Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon). I'm not sure why the book's author chose to make the girl journalist the narrator of the whole complex tale, but it may have had something to do with the fact that Jerry Lewis is still alive and has many many lawyers.At any rate, in both the book and the movie - but especially in the movie - the complexity and shifting suspicions could have been made elegant if the protagonist had been Lanny. Lanny, forced into solving a mystery he does not want to solve, because some journalist named K. Connor is nosing around with a million-dollar book deal. And then he finds out that K. Connor is none other than ... well.It's a love story, stirred up by K. Connor but ultimately she is peripheral to it. Lanny's real love interest - as in, karmic, deep, bonded love - is Vince. Even with all the annoyance of K. Connor taking up way too much screen time, the relationship between Vince and Lanny is mesmerizing.Egoyan's choice to change the ending feels more human and true than the ending of the book, but clarifies K. Connor's real motives far too late to relieve the dissatisfaction.If only.Still, Bacon and Firth are pure pleasure.

That was truly awful.There was so much wrong with this movie that I just don't know where to begin. The plot is totally predictable and as far away from being believable it can get. Watching Alison Lohman in this movie was painful - the way she looks and speaks, you just can't make yourself believe that anyone of the other characters should take her character seriously. I just kept wondering why Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon agreed to take part in this nightmare. And then again, why of why was Alison Lohman picked to play this role?!? As awful as she is, she shouldn't get the whole credit for ruining this effort. The whole story is something like an unhealthy mix of Miss Marple stories and a bit of drugs, alcohol and soft-porn action, full of clichés and easy answers.