Critic Reviews

• Omer Mozaffar, Chicago Sun-Times

  Jim Hemphill's "The Trouble with the Truth" is a pleasant surprise that gets better as the movie unfolds.

• John Anderson, Variety

  Although they talk enough to qualify for radio, John Shea and Lea Thompson make the high-wire act of "The Trouble With the Truth" a convincing, moving and provocative two-hander.

• Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

  A divorced couple rehash their relationship in this touching indie drama.

• Andy Webster, New York Times

  The ambition is laudable, the results less so.

• Sara Stewart, New York Post

  [An] intimate, honest exploration of relationship dynamics, regret and the enduring messiness of love.

• Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

  An equitable, tender, sometimes surprising game of hard truth-telling.

• Keith Phipps, Time Out Chicago

  While it never quite lives up to its lofty inspiration, particularly in an unsatisfying final act, it's engagingly written and well played by both leads.

• Brent Simon, Shared Darkness

  A spare but winning romantic drama that taps into the same talky, intellectually stimulating vein as Richard Linklater's Sunrise/Sunset collaborations with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.

• Dustin Putman, DustinPutman.com

  Don't let this small but potent little gem pass by.

• Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru

  Wise, warm, sexy and sophisticated with tender, well-nuanced performances by John Shea and Lea Thompson.

• Mark Bell, Film Threat

  Shea and Thompson are up against it due to the basic premise alone, so they could be somewhat forgiven for stumbling here or there. But they don't...

• Prairie Miller, WBAI Radio

  A delectable dialogue driven movie over dinner. And a banquet of conversation in the ongoing battle of the sexes that is simultaneously bracing, witty, invigorating, stinging, solemn and funny.

• Staci Layne Wilson, Buzzine Magazine

  Lea Thompson and John Shea sit down 'My Dinner With Andre' style and chew the fat about love, life, longing and letting go, in this unexpectedly poignant, often wryly humorous, drama.

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