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* {{Blackmail}}: Vince tries to blackmail Karen into telling her publisher there isn't anything untoward about Maureen's death by taking photos of her having sex with Karen while high (really, [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale raping her]], given her state of mind). [[spoiler:It turns out this was why Maureen had been murdered too. She discovered Vince was bisexual and attempted to extort money in return for keeping it secret.]]
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* {{Blackmail}}: Vince tries to blackmail Karen into telling her publisher there isn't anything untoward about Maureen's death by taking photos of her having sex with Karen Alice while high (really, [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale raping her]], given her state of mind). [[spoiler:It turns out this was why Maureen had been murdered too. She discovered Vince was bisexual and attempted to extort money in return for keeping it secret.]]
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* ThreeWaySex: The catalyst for the film's plot is a threesome gone wrong.
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* ThreeWaySex: The catalyst for the film's plot is a threesome gone wrong. Vince and Maureen had sex, after which she did it with Lanny too. When the two were in the middle, [[spoiler:Vince came on to Lanny, who rejected him. Maureen saw and realized Vince is really bisexual. She demanded money not to out him as a result, which would be a social death sentence since this was in the 50's. Their valet Reuben killed her later to prevent this as her demand was too high to be satisfied.]]
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* MsFanservice: At least three counting Karen herself, some more shameless than the rest. She's shown topless having sex with Lanny, but relatively briefly. Maureen is shown topless at length while having sex with Vince and then Lanny. Previously as well another woman is seen having sex with Lanny and then walking around in the nude briefly.
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* MsFanservice: At least three counting Karen herself, some more shameless than the rest. She's shown topless having sex with Lanny, but relatively briefly. Then she's naked again while cavorting with another woman high, who ends up eating her out (though it veers into FanDisservice due to her state of mind). Maureen is shown topless at length while having sex with Vince and then Lanny. Previously as well another woman is seen having sex with Lanny and then walking around in the nude briefly.
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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The movie featured a drug-induced lesbian sex scene between Karen and Alice, with Karen arguably a victim of the DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale trope.
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* DepravedBisexual: Vince could arguably fit this trope given his treatment of Karen. He gets anotherw woman to have sex with her when Karen's high, so she really couldn't consent (though the film [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale doesn't seem to realize this]]), taking photos for {{blackmail}} so she'll tell her publisher that Maureen's death wasn't foul play. The whole plot also happened because he [[spoiler:he tried to have sex with Lanny without asking first, which Maureen saw. She tried to blackmail them over this.]]
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* DepravedBisexual: Vince could arguably fit this trope given his treatment of Karen. He gets anotherw another woman to have sex with her when Karen's high, so she really couldn't consent (though the film [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale doesn't seem to realize this]]), taking photos for {{blackmail}} so she'll tell her publisher that Maureen's death wasn't foul play. The whole plot also happened because he [[spoiler:he tried to have sex with Lanny without asking first, which Maureen saw. She tried to blackmail them over this.]]
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:Reuben smothered Maureen when she was passed out. Lanny and Vince, on finding that she was dead, removed evidence which would show her death as anything except being accidental, without knowing what he'd done.]]
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* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler:Reuben killed Maureen by smothering her with a pillow it turns out.]]
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* SuicideIsShameful: Maureen's mother is a devout Catholic, so she's distraught at the idea she killed herself, believing that she's in Hell if that's true.
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* BathSuicide: [[spoiler:Vince kills himself through taking pills with champagne in the bath.]]
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* DepravedBisexual: Vince could arguably fit this trope given his treatment of Karen. He has gets anotherw woman to have sex with her when Karen's high, so she really couldn't consent (though the film [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale doesn't seem to realize this]]), taking photos for {{blackmail}} so she'll tell her publisher that Maureen's death wasn't foul play. The whole plot also happened because he [[spoiler:he tried to have sex with Lanny without asking first, which Maureen saw. She tried to blackmail them over this.]]
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* AliceAllusion: the appropriately named Alice, a young singer Vince uses to blackmail Karen, appears in an ''Alice in Wonderland'' dress, performs Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit", and is associated with psychedelic drug use.
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* AliceAllusion: the The appropriately named Alice, a young singer Vince uses to blackmail Karen, appears in an ''Alice in Wonderland'' dress, performs Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit", and is associated with psychedelic drug use.
* {{Blackmail}}: Vince tries to blackmail Karen into telling her publisher there isn't anything untoward about Maureen's death by taking photos of her having sex with Karen while high (really, [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale raping her]], given her state of mind). [[spoiler:It turns out this was why Maureen had been murdered too. She discovered Vince was bisexual and attempted to extort money in return for keeping it secret.]]
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* ClosetGay: Vince. More specifically, Closet Bisexual.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The film is set in the 50's and 60's, with the plot hinging on the fact that being publicly known to have sex with a person of your own gender (or wanting this) would be a social death sentence along with prime fodder for {{blackmail}}.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Vince drugs Karen and then arranges for Alice, an aspiring young singer he's training (and who, yes, dresses like Alice from ''Alice In Wonderland''), to have sex with Karen while Karen is stoned out of her mind and unable to think clearly. When Karen wakes up in the morning, completely naked and humiliated, even more so when Vince shows off the pictures of her drug induced tryst (which he intends to use to blackmail her), Vince has the nerve to insinuate that it was no big deal - he even jokes about how Alice couldn't get her pregnant! The film doesn't really focus on it much in the final half but Karen is clearly not happy about what happened.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Vince drugs Karen and then arranges for Alice, an aspiring young singer he's training (and who, yes, dresses like Alice from ''Alice In Wonderland''), to have sex with Karen while Karen is stoned out of her mind and unable to think clearly. When Karen wakes up in the morning, completely naked and humiliated, even more so when Vince shows off the pictures of her drug - induced tryst (which he intends to use to blackmail her), Vince has the nerve to insinuate that it was no big deal - he even jokes about how Alice couldn't get her pregnant! The film doesn't really focus on it much in the final half half, but Karen is clearly not happy about what happened.
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* MsFanservice: At least three counting Karen herself, some of them more shameless than others.
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* MsFanservice: At least three counting Karen herself, some of them more shameless than others. the rest. She's shown topless having sex with Lanny, but relatively briefly. Maureen is shown topless at length while having sex with Vince and then Lanny. Previously as well another woman is seen having sex with Lanny and then walking around in the nude briefly.
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''Where the Truth Lies'' is a 2005 erotic mystery-thriller film directed by Creator/AtomEgoyan and starring Creator/KevinBacon, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/AlisonLohman, and Rachel Blanchard.
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* IncompatibleOrientation: This could be one way to read Lanny's rejection of Vince's sexual advance. However, the scene is ambiguous in this regard.
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* TheDeterminator: Karen will stop at nothing to learn the truth behind the Lanny and Vince's breakup. Not even being raped and threatened with sexually humiliating blackmail will stop her from achieving her goal.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Lanny and Vince's double act seems very similar Creator/MartinAndLewis, with them even hosting telethons, much like Creator/JerryLewis became famous for doing later in his solo career.
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* IncompatibleOrientation: This could be one way to read Lanny's rejection of Vince's sexual advance. However, the scene is ambiguous in this regard.
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* AliceAllusion: the appropriately named Alice, a young singer Vince uses to blackmail Karen, appears in an ''Alice in Wonderland'' dress, performs Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit", and is associated with psychedelic drug use.
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* IntroductionByHookup: Karen and Lanny have sex shortly after meeting, while Karen is in New York and using her best friend's name. Later they meet for real when Vince meets with Lanny to work on Karen's book, which doesn't go well.
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''Where the Truth Lies'' is a 2005 erotic mystery-thriller film directed by Creator/AtomEgoyan and starring Creator/KevinBacon, Creator/ColinFirth, and Alison Lohman.
In the 1950s, Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth) are the most popular comedy duo in the States, until the mysterious death of a young woman in their hotel room prompts the two to end their collaboration and disappear from the public eye. Fifteen years later, journalist Karen O'Connor (Lohman) tries to find out what happened that night.
In the 1950s, Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth) are the most popular comedy duo in the States, until the mysterious death of a young woman in their hotel room prompts the two to end their collaboration and disappear from the public eye. Fifteen years later, journalist Karen O'Connor (Lohman) tries to find out what happened that night.
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''Where the Truth Lies'' is a 2005 erotic mystery-thriller film directed by Creator/AtomEgoyan and starring Creator/KevinBacon, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/AlisonLohman, and Alison Lohman.
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In the 1950s, Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth) are the most popular comedy duo in the States, until the mysterious death of ayoung woman college student Maureen O'Flaherty (Blanchard) in their hotel room prompts the two to end their collaboration and disappear from the public eye. Fifteen years later, journalist Karen O'Connor (Lohman) tries to find out what happened that night.
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* TheButlerDidIt: Lanny believes Vince killed the girl and Vince thinks Lanny is the murderer. It turns out [[spoiler:Reuben, Lanny and Vince's valet and "fix-it man", strangled her to keep her from blackmailing Lanny and Vince with the audio she had recorded during their sexual encounter]]. The reveal hurt the movie; as one critic noted the ending was "straight out of the big book of mystery clichés".
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* TheButlerDidIt: Lanny believes Vince killed the girl Maureen and Vince thinks Lanny is the murderer. It turns out that [[spoiler:Reuben, Lanny and Vince's valet and "fix-it man", strangled her to keep her from blackmailing Lanny and Vince with the audio she had recorded during their sexual encounter]]. The reveal hurt the movie; as one critic noted the ending was "straight out of the big book of mystery clichés".clichés".
* ClosetGay: Vince. More specifically, Closet Bisexual.
* ClosetGay: Vince. More specifically, Closet Bisexual.
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* TheDeterminator: Karen O'Connor will stop at nothing to learn the truth behind the break up of Lanny Morris and Vince Collins. Not even being raped and threatened with sexually humiliating blackmail will stop her from achieving her goal.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Vince, the DepravedBisexual, drugs the film's heroine, reporter Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman) and then arranges for Alice, an aspiring young singer he's training (and who, yes, dresses like Alice from ''Alice In Wonderland''), to have sex with Karen while Karen is stoned out of her mind and unable to think clearly. When Karen wakes up in the morning, completely naked and humiliated, even more so when Vince shows off the pictures of her drug induced tryst (which he intends to use to blackmail her), Vince has the nerve to insinuate that it was no big deal - he even jokes about how Alice couldn't get her pregnant! The film doesn't really focus on it much in the final half but Karen is clearly not happy about what happened.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The movie featured a drug-induced lesbian love scene between Alison Lohman and Kristin Adams, with Lohman arguably a victim of the DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale trope.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Vince, the DepravedBisexual, drugs the film's heroine, reporter Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman) and then arranges for Alice, an aspiring young singer he's training (and who, yes, dresses like Alice from ''Alice In Wonderland''), to have sex with Karen while Karen is stoned out of her mind and unable to think clearly. When Karen wakes up in the morning, completely naked and humiliated, even more so when Vince shows off the pictures of her drug induced tryst (which he intends to use to blackmail her), Vince has the nerve to insinuate that it was no big deal - he even jokes about how Alice couldn't get her pregnant! The film doesn't really focus on it much in the final half but Karen is clearly not happy about what happened.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The movie featured a drug-induced lesbian love scene between Alison Lohman and Kristin Adams, with Lohman arguably a victim of the DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale trope.
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* TheDeterminator: Karen O'Connor will stop at nothing to learn the truth behind the break up of Lanny Morris and Vince Collins.Vince's breakup. Not even being raped and threatened with sexually humiliating blackmail will stop her from achieving her goal.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale:Vince, the DepravedBisexual, Vince drugs the film's heroine, reporter Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman) and then arranges for Alice, an aspiring young singer he's training (and who, yes, dresses like Alice from ''Alice In Wonderland''), to have sex with Karen while Karen is stoned out of her mind and unable to think clearly. When Karen wakes up in the morning, completely naked and humiliated, even more so when Vince shows off the pictures of her drug induced tryst (which he intends to use to blackmail her), Vince has the nerve to insinuate that it was no big deal - he even jokes about how Alice couldn't get her pregnant! The film doesn't really focus on it much in the final half but Karen is clearly not happy about what happened.
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Maureen blackmails Lanny by threatening to publish audio recordings that would reveal Vince's bisexuality, thus ending their joint career. [[spoiler:This leads to her murder.]]
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The movie featured a drug-induced lesbianlove sex scene between Alison Lohman Karen and Kristin Adams, Alice, with Lohman Karen arguably a victim of the DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale trope.trope.
* IncompatibleOrientation: This could be one way to read Lanny's rejection of Vince's sexual advance. However, the scene is ambiguous in this regard.
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* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Maureen blackmails Lanny by threatening to publish audio recordings that would reveal Vince's bisexuality, thus ending their joint career. [[spoiler:This leads to her murder.]]
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The movie featured a drug-induced lesbian
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* UnreliableNarrator: Karen is anonymously sent manuscripts for chapters of Lanny's memoir, his voiceover reading of such making up the narration for the film's flashbacks to the 1950s. However, the reliability of these manuscripts is later brought into question.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: The journalist tells the story of a little girl who was saved thanks to a call-in show. It turns out it's her.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: The journalist Karen tells the story of a little girl with polio who was saved able to get treatment thanks to money raised during a call-in show.telethon in the 1950s. It turns out it's her.
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* MatzoFever: Vince has a serious case of this for Lanny. It's not clear whether the reason Lanny rejects him is because he just has no homosexual inclinations whatsoever, or just because he's worried about what would happen to their careers if this became public knowledge.
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* TheButlerDidIt: Lanny believes Vince killed the girl and Vince thinks Lanny is the murderer. It turns out the butler strangled her. The reveal hurt the movie; as one critics noted the ending was "straight out of the big book of mystery clichés".
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* TheButlerDidIt: Lanny believes Vince killed the girl and Vince thinks Lanny is the murderer. It turns out the butler [[spoiler:Reuben, Lanny and Vince's valet and "fix-it man", strangled her. her to keep her from blackmailing Lanny and Vince with the audio she had recorded during their sexual encounter]]. The reveal hurt the movie; as one critics critic noted the ending was "straight out of the big book of mystery clichés".
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''Where the Truth Lies'' is a 2005 erotic mystery-thriller film directed by Creator/AtomEgoyan and starring Creator/KevinBacon, Creator/ColinFirth, and Creator/AlisonLohman.
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In the 1950s, Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth) are the most popular comedy duo in the States, until the mysterious death of a young woman in their hotel room prompts the two to end their collaboration and disappear from the public eye. 15 Fifteen years later, journalist Karen O'Connor (Lohman) tries to find out what happened that night.
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* BowtiesAreCool: Watch Colin Firth tying his bow-tie. It's mesmerizing.
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''Where the Truth Lies'' is a 2005 erotic thriller mystery film directed by Creator/AtomEgoyan and starring Creator/KevinBacon, Creator/ColinFirth, and Creator/AlisonLohman.
In the 1950s, Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth) where the most popular comedy duo in the States, until the mysterious death of a young woman in their hotel room prompts the two to end their collaboration and disappear from the public eye. 15 years later, journalist Karen O'Connor (Lohman) tries to find out what happened that night.
In the 1950s, Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth) where the most popular comedy duo in the States, until the mysterious death of a young woman in their hotel room prompts the two to end their collaboration and disappear from the public eye. 15 years later, journalist Karen O'Connor (Lohman) tries to find out what happened that night.
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''Where the Truth Lies'' is a 2005 erotic thriller mystery mystery-thriller film directed by Creator/AtomEgoyan and starring Creator/KevinBacon, Creator/ColinFirth, and Creator/AlisonLohman.
In the 1950s, Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth)where are the most popular comedy duo in the States, until the mysterious death of a young woman in their hotel room prompts the two to end their collaboration and disappear from the public eye. 15 years later, journalist Karen O'Connor (Lohman) tries to find out what happened that night.
In the 1950s, Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth)
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* MatzoFever: Vince has a serious case of this for Lanny. It's not clear whether the reason Lanny rejects him is because he just has no homosexual inclinations whatsoever, or just because he's worried about what would happen to their careers if this became public knowledge.
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''Where the Truth Lies'' is an erotic thriller mystery film starring Creator/KevinBacon, Creator/ColinFirth, and Creator/AlisonLohman.
In the 1950s, Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth) where the most popular comedy duo in the States, until the mysterious death of a young woman in their hotel room prompts the two to end their collaboration and disappear from the public eye. 15 years later, journalist Karen O'Connor (Lohman) tries to find out what happened that night.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: The journalist tells the story of a little girl who was saved thanks to a call-in show. It turns out it's her.
* BowtiesAreCool: Watch Colin Firth tying his bow-tie. It's mesmerizing.
* TheButlerDidIt: Lanny believes Vince killed the girl and Vince thinks Lanny is the murderer. It turns out the butler strangled her. The reveal hurt the movie; as one critics noted the ending was "straight out of the big book of mystery clichés".
* CoitusUninterruptus: Lanny measures his flings by how they react to being seen naked by hotel staff, although usually not during but immediately after sex.
* DepravedBisexual: Vince, the ColinFirth character.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Vince, the DepravedBisexual, drugs the film's heroine, reporter Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman) and then arranges for Alice, an aspiring young singer he's training (and who, yes, dresses like Alice from ''Alice In Wonderland''), to have sex with Karen while Karen is stoned out of her mind and unable to think clearly. When Karen wakes up in the morning, completely naked and humiliated, even more so when Vince shows off the pictures of her drug induced tryst (which he intends to use to blackmail her), Vince has the nerve to insinuate that it was no big deal - he even jokes about how Alice couldn't get her pregnant! The film doesn't really focus on it much in the final half but Karen is clearly not happy about what happened.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The movie featured a drug-induced lesbian love scene between Alison Lohman and Kristin Adams, with Lohman arguably a victim of the DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale trope.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Inverted when Lanny tells a female audience member "I think you have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. Now you notice I say 'I think you've got the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen'; that's because I haven't actually seen them yet. I've been too busy staring at your cans."
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''Where the Truth Lies'' is an erotic thriller mystery film starring Creator/KevinBacon, Creator/ColinFirth, and Creator/AlisonLohman.
In the 1950s, Lanny Morris (Bacon) and Vince Collins (Firth) where the most popular comedy duo in the States, until the mysterious death of a young woman in their hotel room prompts the two to end their collaboration and disappear from the public eye. 15 years later, journalist Karen O'Connor (Lohman) tries to find out what happened that night.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: The journalist tells the story of a little girl who was saved thanks to a call-in show. It turns out it's her.
* BowtiesAreCool: Watch Colin Firth tying his bow-tie. It's mesmerizing.
* TheButlerDidIt: Lanny believes Vince killed the girl and Vince thinks Lanny is the murderer. It turns out the butler strangled her. The reveal hurt the movie; as one critics noted the ending was "straight out of the big book of mystery clichés".
* CoitusUninterruptus: Lanny measures his flings by how they react to being seen naked by hotel staff, although usually not during but immediately after sex.
* DepravedBisexual: Vince, the ColinFirth character.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Vince, the DepravedBisexual, drugs the film's heroine, reporter Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman) and then arranges for Alice, an aspiring young singer he's training (and who, yes, dresses like Alice from ''Alice In Wonderland''), to have sex with Karen while Karen is stoned out of her mind and unable to think clearly. When Karen wakes up in the morning, completely naked and humiliated, even more so when Vince shows off the pictures of her drug induced tryst (which he intends to use to blackmail her), Vince has the nerve to insinuate that it was no big deal - he even jokes about how Alice couldn't get her pregnant! The film doesn't really focus on it much in the final half but Karen is clearly not happy about what happened.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The movie featured a drug-induced lesbian love scene between Alison Lohman and Kristin Adams, with Lohman arguably a victim of the DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale trope.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Inverted when Lanny tells a female audience member "I think you have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. Now you notice I say 'I think you've got the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen'; that's because I haven't actually seen them yet. I've been too busy staring at your cans."
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