Synopsis
A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.
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Cast
- Keanu ReevesRichard Ramsey
- Renée ZellwegerLoretta Lassiter
- Gugu Mbatha-RawJanelle
- Gabriel BassoMike Lassiter
- Jim BelushiBoone Lassiter
- Sean BridgersArthur Westin
- Christopher BerryJack Legrand
- Ritchie MontgomeryJudge Robichaux
- Jim KlockLeblanc
- Nicole BarréAngela Morley
Recommendations
- 70
Village Voice
This engaging courtroom drama aces the trick of grounding its ludicrousness in a convincing facsimile of reality. - 62
TheWrap
The Whole Truth stands out within its evergreen genre for the largely unsensational manner in which it’s presented. Hunt follows actual courtroom procedures more closely than most similar movies...which makes the eventual revelations feel earned. - 58
The A.V. Club
The Whole Truth is a moderately clever, reasonably entertaining courtroom drama, which is only a problem given the talent involved with bringing something this middle-of-the-road to the screen. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Everyone is clearly hiding something. But more pressing than the mystery of Mike’s silence and his parents’ toxic relationship is the sense of a missed opportunity that permeates the movie, sapping its final twist of the solar-plexus wallop it should have delivered. - 50
Slant Magazine
The filmmakers are so disengaged from the psyches of its characters that The Whole Truth ultimately plays as little more than the cinematic equivalent of a trashy airport novel that will grip you in the moment before it dissolves from memory immediately afterward. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Hunt, whose debut feature was “Frozen River,” has a steadfastly classicist approach to tried-and-true genre storytelling that’s admirable, but instead of building tension, The Whole Truth lets it bleed out. - 50
The Seattle Times
The film’s bleached colors and Reeves’ trademark woodenness add to its emotional remoteness, though Basso, Zellweger and Belushi create a convincing family in crisis. Zellweger, especially, delivers a fascinating, complex performance as a damaged survivor. - 40
Variety
Looking back to “Frozen River,” Hunt’s long-awaited second feature shares the weaknesses of her debut — namely, a single-minded focus on a somewhat trashy predicament, with little to no room for subplots or other enriching details — while lacking in the earlier film’s strengths.
