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8/16/2020

The Good Liar (2019)

Mature adults Roy and Betty meet on a dating site and hit it off. Though she's only expressed interest in companionship, soon he's moved in to her spare room -- much to the chagrin of her son. The thing Roy is keeping from Betty is the fact that he's a con man with several things going at once and one of those things just happens to be bilking Betty the widow out of her fortune.

It's well-acted and keeps the interest, but I was honestly hoping for a bit more. Though I couldn't have guessed at the particulars of the backstory, I had guessed from quite early on that Betty wasn't the easy mark that Roy had assumed. The effect of this knowledge was that we were waiting for -- rather than surprised by -- the twist when it finally came.

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