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The Good Lie

Miracles are made by people who refuse to stop believing.

Rating 7.5 / 10Release September 10, 2014Runtime 110 min

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.

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