NOTE from Sudan Watch Ed: Here is the opener to the film The Good Lie:
"In 1983, a brutal civil war broke out in Sudan between the North and the South over religion and resources, leaving villages destroyed by northern government armies and militia.
By 1987, thousands of orphaned children began to flee on foot across sub-Saharan Africa, walking as many as a thousand miles to Ethiopia and then Kenya. Thirteen years later, 3600 refugees would be relocated to the U.S.A. They were known simply as “The Lost Boys of Sudan.”
This film is inspired by their story."
Emmanuel Jal plays the role of Paul. As if he and the others hadn't gone through enough already, in the USA the film's writer, Margaret Nagle plus ALCON and IMAGINE heartlessly tried to deprive them of their full earnings for the film. See below 'Copyright and fraud lawsuit'. Thank God, they won!
Source: The Good Lie - Official Trailer [HD] https://youtu.be/O5mrvffezmM
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From Wikipedia the free encyclopaedia:
The Good Lie is a 2014 American drama film written by Margaret Nagle and directed by Philippe Falardeau.
Cast
- Reese Witherspoon as Carrie Davis
- Ger Duany as Jeremiah
- Arnold Oceng as Mamere
- Emmanuel Jal as Paul
- Kuoth Wiel as Abital
- Femi Oguns as Theo
- Corey Stoll as Jack
- Sarah Baker as Pamela
- Mike Pniewski as Nick
- Thad Luckinbill as Matt
The Good Lie was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival[6] before being released on October 3, 2014. Another major screening was held by the Greenwich International Film Festival on October 22, 2014, for the benefit of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.[7]
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures (United States) Summit Entertainment (International). Running time 110 minutes [3]. Countries: United States[4], India[1]. Language: English. Box Office: £3.2 million[5].
Copyright and fraud lawsuit
In February 2015, the Foundation for Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan, Inc., acting on behalf of 54 Sudanese refugees, filed a lawsuit in Georgia against writer Margaret Nagle, Alcon Entertainment and Imagine Entertainment. The suit claimed that the refugees were joint authors of the stories they had told Nagle in interviews that she had recorded and used to write the story. It also asserted that a joint venture agreement had been breached, with fraud and other issues arising from a promise of compensation from a producer.
The US District Judge initially granted the defendants' motion to dismiss but allowed the suit to be refiled if the plaintiffs subsequently and successfully registered copyright of the interviews.
The court ultimately found that the refugees' statements supported the finding of copyright infringement and a permanent injunction on the movie. Before the case could be concluded, however, the plaintiffs' claims were settled out of court.[12][13][14]
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Lie
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Source:
The Good Lie - Full Movie https://youtu.be/ArLVndbyz_A
or this better version includes an update at the end and shows all credits, songs etc:
The Good Lie - Full Movie https://youtu.be/n73RdoCaEw4
Rent, Buy, Multi-format, DVD, Blu-Ray available at Amazon
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Further reading
Movie Review and Q&A - What happened to Theo?
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