The Hoax

Biography,Comedy,Drama,History

2006
1h 37m
6.7

Stanley Tucci,Marcia Gay Harden,Richard Gere,Hope Davis

Early in 1971, the McGraw-Hill publishing company passes on Clifford Irving's new novel. He's desperate for money so, against the backdrop of Nixon's re-election calculations, Irving claims he has Howard Hughes' cooperation to write Hughes's autobiography. With the help of friend Richard Suskind, Irving does research, lucks into a manuscript