She's frosty and just too caught up in a life that needs a rude awakening. Although her part is somewhat small, it's refreshing to see a woman who initially can't be bothered, grow to care. By the same token, Carrie is addled by these immigrants and tries to keep her distance. Brought to the states by a Catholic charity, Mamere and company don't know what to make of this strange new world. It is here we meet Carrie (Witherspoon), a job counselor charged with helping most of the above find work. I'm sure the realities of this situation were way harsher than depicted, but enough is on the screen to stay with you when things shift dramatically to Kansas City. At the screening I attended, screenwriter Nagle confessed that through her 10 year effort to get this film made, she had to pull a few punches in this section. The first act of THE GOOD LIE shows this terrifying struggle through the eyes of Mamere (Arnold Oceng), his sister Abital (Kuoth Wiel), brother Theo (Femi Oguns), and friends Paul (Emmanuel Jal) and Jeremiah (Ger Duany). Depicted as less of a war and more of a full-scale attack, the lucky who would survive would walk on foot for as much as 1000 miles to refugee camps, such as one in Kenya. Working from a screenplay by Margaret Nagle, French Canadian director Phillippe Falardeau tells the somewhat fictionalized story of "The Lost Boys", children orphaned by a religious war between the largely Muslim Northern Sudanese and the Christian Southerners. Fortunately, the ad is a "good lie", one intended to get butts in seats for a film in which Witherspoon's role takes a backseat to the compelling story of Sudanese refugees trying to survive a brutal Civil War. From the poster, one might think THE GOOD LIE, with its beaming close-up of Oscar Winner Reese Witherspoon towering over a trio of Africans trekking across a savannah, is of the same ilk. Think CRY FREEDOM, THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, or BLOOD DIAMOND to name a few. Historically, Hollywood has had the best of intentions when depicting a crisis in Africa, but has often felt the need to add a white Hollywood Star to the mix to be the eyes and ears of the story. REESE IN PIECES - My Review of THE GOOD LIE
Rating: PG-13 (Drug Use|Brief Strong Language|Some Violence|Thematic Elements) However, seeing how adrift they are in 20th-century America, Carrie endeavors to help them in rebuilding their shattered lives. They are met in Kansas by Carrie Davis (Reese Witherspoon), who has been charged with finding them jobs. Thirteen years later, the group gets the chance to settle in the U.S. After their village is destroyed and their parents killed by Northern militia, Sudanese orphans Theo, his siblings and other survivors make a difficult journey to a refugee camp in Kenya.
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