The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
(2018)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 129 votes
Year: 2018
Country: United States of America, France
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Патрик Демпси, Дон Харви, Joshua Close, Кристин Фросет, Райан Кира Армстронг, Бен Шнетцер, Дэймон Уэйанс мл., Kurt Fuller, Уэйн Найт, Мэтт Фрюэр
Plot
A writer gets caught up in a murder investigation involving his mentor, an esteemed American author. Based on the book of the same name, by Joël Dicker.
The story charts a student who seeks out his former tutor, a writer/professor, to help with his writer's block. Following the discovery of an old grave in the professor's garden, he is arrested on suspicion of murdering a young girl who disappeared in the area decades earlier. The former student sets out to help his mentor and try and prove his innocence. A tough ask considering the girl was buried on his land and he was having, if not an affair, then an infatuation with her.