Movie·2006·116 min

The Hoax

Name: The Hoax
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2006-10-14
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Julie Delpy

The Hoax streams in the US on Hoopla, and free with ads on YouTube Free, as of October 5, 2026.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

6.3 / 10 · TMDBTomatometer 85%Audience 58%Metacritic 70IMDb 6.6Letterboxd 3.3

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Comedy Drama

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.

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