Something must have compelled Sud to tell this story, in this form, and yet it is completely lost in the project's self-seriousness. The odds are in their favor, and it’s not nerve-wracking in the slightest, nor interesting to see how they try to toy with them. This is unmistakably in part because of the couple the film focuses on and how they choose to go about their crisis-by getting ahead of the scenario using Rebecca’s connection with local law enforcement, by hiding out in the upper-middle class digs, and trying to shift the blame to those who are continuously being harmed by their selfishness. Sud's film is the case of a morality game that never grabs you, despite a nightmarish scenario with which no one would want to be faced. When Britney’s father Sam ( Cas Anvar) turns up asking where his daughter is, their ramshackle alibi seems to deteriorate with each action. They can’t let their child go to jail for such a crime, and so they decide to lie about it. Her father Jay ( Peter Sarsgaard) is most immediately in denial, even though he tries to find the body at first, and spearheads a campaign with her mother Rebecca ( Mireille Enos) to cover it up. King stars in “The Lie” as Kayla, a teenager who kills her friend Brittany one day ( Devery Jacobs) by pushing her into an icy river. This sends Kayla's divorced parents into panic mode, facing choices they never thought they’d have to make.
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