The Lie (2011)

A former free-spirit is having the spirit slowly crushed out of him by his tedious job with a horrible boss and his wife’s surprise decision to take a corporate job. In order to get a day to decompress, he tells his boss he can’t come in because his infant daughter is sick. When he wants even more time off, he escalates his excuse - without considering the consequences - to the lie that his daughter has died.

It’s a little too low-key and took a while to get going, but I ended up being on-board with both the message and the movie. I don’t think all corporate gigs are evil or anything, but I do believe that we’re happiest when we’re honest about our needs. I especially liked the denouement.

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