True Story

True Story isn’t a documentary or a news piece, so its dramatic liberties and strategic withholding of info are permissible.

The former comedy co-stars (Knocked Up) are superbly cast in this fascinating, fact-based story.

Longo is written as an amiable...man, and Franco's subtle delivery evokes the specter of a cold, strategic manipulator hiding beneath the likability.

True Story is at times a surface-value assessment of finding answers in the darkest places, and at others, it’s a revealing dissection of idolization and the lies we’re able to ignore when our own mind fabricates something better.