The Good Lie

(2014)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 620 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2014

Runtime: 110 мин

Country: India, Kenya

Director: Philippe Falardeau

Cast: Риз Уизерспун, Кори Столл, Арнольд Ошенг, Ger Duany, Тэд Лакинбилл, Афемо Омилами, Сара Бэйкер, Джошуа Микель, Майк Пневски, Lindsey Garrett

Plot

A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.

Four Sudanese children orphaned after their village is massacred in the Second Sudanese Civil War make an arduous, dangerous trek through the plains, enduring hardship, death, and sacrifice all the way until they reach safety in a refugee camp in Kenya. Years later, these youths are among 3600 selected for resettlement in America, only to have the one girl among them sent to Boston, while the three boys must make a new life in Kansas City. Together, these young men must adjust to an alien culture as the emotional baggage of their past haunts them. However, these newcomers and their new friends, like employment counselor Carrie Davis, strive to understand one another in this new home as they make peace with their histories in a challenge that will change all their lives.