The Ultimate Lie (1996) Online

1996 Kristin Davis Michael Murphy George Eads Larry Shaw

Original Title :: The Ultimate Lie
Genre :: Movie / Drama
Year :: 1996
Directror :: Larry Shaw
Cast :: Kristin Davis,Michael Murphy,George Eads
Writer :: Rob Fresco
Type :: Movie
Time :: 1h 37min
Rating :: 5.5/10

A spoiled young rich girl rebels against her parents by becoming a call girl. However, one night she arrives at a hotel for a "rendezvous" with a client and discovers to her horror that the client is none other than her father.

The Ultimate Lie (1996) Online

Claire (Kristin Davis) is the daughter of Malcolm McGrath, dean of a prestigious law school who is heavily favored for being given a chancellor position over a number of law academies. Claire is bored and restless as a daughter of luxury and wealth. Unknown to her parents, she begins working as a prostitute for a call girl service catering to wealthy clientèle. One of the premier VIP clients who uses this call girl service is a mysterious man named Harold Beck. Several girls working for the service have slept with Beck and were as pleased with him as he was with them. But one fateful night, Claire is selected to spend a night with Beck at his hotel room, and finds that Harold Beck and her father, Malcolm McGrath, are in fact one and the same man... a revelation that will change the lives of the whole McGrath family forever.

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Kristin Davis	-	Claire McGrath
	Michael Murphy	-	Malcolm McGrath
	George Eads	-	Ben McGrath
	Gregory Itzin
	Jane Marla Robbins
	Jon Pennell	-	Chuck (as John Pennell)
	Nicolette Scorsese	-	Eileen
	Virginya Keehne
	Billy Burke
	Blair Brown	-	Joan 'Joanie' McGrath
	Jean Shum	-	Amy Chen
	Alexander Zale	-	The Old Professor
	David Cromwell	-	Chancellor Peterson
	James MacDonald	-	The Businessman
	Donald Craig	-	Chancellor Krell

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Zetadda

The dean of a university (Malcolm, played by Michael Murphy) is cheating on his wife with call girls. Meanwhile his daughter (Clara, played by Kristin Davis) - who is a college drop-out - is a prostitute working with the same agency that her father gets his girls from. One evening she turns up at his hotel room door, and they find each other's secret out.

Unable to live with the fact that Malcolm is cheating on her mother, Clara tells her and is thrown out of the house. As she is about to go to her best-friend's, she tells her mother that she is a prostitute, and how she found out about Malcolm.

The rest of the film continues to tell how Malcolm's life falls apart, how Clara and her mother are re-united, and ends with them hugging - pretty mushy stuff.

The film is quite well made, and the issues brought up (the possible consequences of adultery, prostitution, etc.) are thought-provoking.

Ynneig

A made-for-television feature with quite an interesting premise, the content is however not enough to last for feature length. It is additionally burdened by cliché-reliant directing and maudlin use of music, which make the film both look and sound like the run-of-the-mill telepic that in fact it is. The shots often feel too close up too, and although it raises some thought-provoking ideas, they are dealt with in a hackneyed, tiresome manner. Still, if nothing else, it is worth seeing what Michael Murphy does with his role. He is quite a good actor and capable of a very human performance - it is a shame that in his later years he has been reduced to supporting roles in such mediocre stuff as this. It is not a bad film per se, but "mediocre" sure is an apt term.

Flocton

Just caught the last hour or so of this -- pretty standard stuff. It took me a bit to recognize Blair Brown -- she sure has aged since her days (and nights) on "The Days And Nights Of Molly Dodd".

Is it just me or does Kristin Davis look like Heather Graham's long-lost brunette cousin (in a Laura Palmer - Maddy Ferguson kinda way)?

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