Recent Watch : The Hoax

Man.....Mr. Gere can act and how...!

May be this is first time I saw him with those 70s brown hairdo ...and he also bears a fake nose. There is this shot in the initial few minutes when he is waiting in the lobby of the publisher and he is all shaken by the cold response ..he is getting jolts of reality but he dont want to let go...he acts through grunts, sound of heavy breathing,.. he trembles and boasts just to catch hold of the receding dream.....

Story, an adaptation of a novel and some hand-picked events of the life of certain writer Bob Clifford, who claims to be writing an Autobiography of legendary Howard Hughes and tries and almost gets away with the con given the imbecility of aging and idiosyncratic Hughes.

But this movies owes a lot to Scorsese's' "Aviator". It sets the tone for the charismatic character of Howard Hughes....or may be this is a case for the non-US audience like us who didnot already know about Mr. Hughes that much before Aviotor.