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Genre
  
Comedy, Drama, Romance

Music director
  
Phylr

Country
  
United States

7.5/10
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Director
  
Initial DVD release
  
March 13, 2001

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
May 15, 1989 (1989-05-15) (Cannes Film Market)July 20, 1990 (1990-07-20)

Cast
  
(Audry),
Robert John Burke
(Josh),
Chris Cook
(Vic Hugo),
Julia McNeal
(Pearl),
Katherine Mayfield
(Liz Hugo),
Gary Sauer
(Emmet)

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Tagline
  
Can a nice girl from Long Island find happiness with a mass murderer?

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The Unbelievable Truth is a 1989 comedy-drama film written and directed by Hal Hartley, starring Adrienne Shelly (in her first movie role) and Robert Burke. It tells the story of Audry, who dumps her high-school boyfriend and becomes a successful fashion model, but all along is in love with a mysterious man called Josh, released after conviction for manslaughter. He after his experiences is uncomfortable with relationships, but learns that cannot stay an observer of life and must fight to win her. The film was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize in 1990 at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Plot

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Back from prison to a small community on Long Island comes Josh, a sober young man whose crimes most cannot remember exactly, and finds a job at Vic's auto repair shop. Vic's daughter Audry falls instantly in love with him, only to be rejected when she declares her feelings because he is not ready for such a relationship and fears Vic's reaction. In revenge, she gives up the place she has won at Harvard and goes off to New York to be a photographic model, appearing first in lingerie and then nude.

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Horrified, her parents send the reliable Josh off to the city to reclaim her, but he gives up in disgust when he finds she is living with her agent. Returning home, he meets the daughter of the man he is supposed to have killed in a struggle, who says she can testify that he is innocent. Audry, overjoyed that he has re-entered her life, gives away all her earnings from exposing herself to her money-obsessed father and again offers herself to Josh, who this time is overjoyed too.

Cast

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  • Adrienne Shelly as Audry Hugo
  • Robert Burke as Josh
  • Christopher Cooke as Vic Hugo
  • Julia McNeal as Pearl
  • Katherine Mayfield as Liz Hugo
  • Gary Sauer as Emmet
  • Mark Bailey as Mike
  • David Healy as Todd Whitbread
  • Matt Malloy as Otis
  • Edie Falco as Jane
  • Paul Schultze as Bill
  • Bill Sage as Gus
  • Home Video

    The region 1 DVD was released by Anchor Bay Entertainment on March 11, 2001, but it has been discontinued for no disclosed reason. The DVD contained the film's trailer and an interview with Hartley. Possible Films, Hal Hartley's company, released a 20th Anniversary DVD on October 19, 2010. Olive Films released the film on Blu-ray and DVD on May 14, 2013.

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