Movie Notes: The Hoax

Synopsis
Clifford Irving (Richard Gere) has snared a series of interviews with wealthy recluse Howard Hughes, and signed on publisher McGraw Hill. Unfortunately, his relationship with Hughes is a fabrication.

Synopsis
Clifford Irving (Richard Gere) has snared a series of interviews with wealthy recluse Howard Hughes, and signed on publisher McGraw Hill. Unfortunately, his relationship with Hughes is a fabrication.

This film concerns a spelling bee, a quietly dysfunctional family, but more so the mystical Kabbalah. Your knowledge of the last item should probably determine whether or not you rent this film. I know next to nothing about the Kabbalah and therefore the deeper meaning of much that transpired was lost on me.