A Little White Lie (2023) on Netflix
A down-on-his-luck handyman in New York City shares his name with a famous and famously reclusive writer. A college's literary festival invitation reaches him by mistake, and he accepts it.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb5.9/103,338 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes35%
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Plot summary
Shriver is a handyman in New York City, and he shares his name with a famous and famously reclusive writer. He is down on his luck when an invitation arrives: a college wants the writer at its literary festival, to give a keynote address, and the invitation has been sent to the handyman by mistake. He accepts it and travels to the campus. There the author's fans and other writers welcome him, and a romance begins between him and an English professor at the college.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Little White Lie (2023)
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- Filming of A Little White Lie began in February 2020 and was suspended by COVID-19 three weeks in, one week before completion; after a 400-day halt, it finished with a six-day shoot.
- Director Michael Maren lost the cinematographer who had storyboarded the entire film, shot 12-hour days and then scouted locations at night, and locked the hotel set down only on the Saturday before a Monday shoot, giving production designers one day to prepare.
- Michael Maren had Philip Seymour Hoffman in mind to play Shriver before he even wrote the screenplay, and before Hoffman's death.
- Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church, Whoopi Goldberg and Giancarlo Esposito were replaced when Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Jimmi Simpson, Zach Braff, Mark Boone Junior, Aja Naomi King, Adhir Kalyan and Benjamin King joined the cast in 2020.
