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Synopsis: It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic setup that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. At a bank, on the spur of the moment he blurts out a fib, with eye-popping results. Then, when his mother's on her deathbed, frightened of the eternal void awaiting her, Mark invents fiction. The hospital staff overhear his description of Heaven, believe every word, and tell others. Soon Mark is a prophet, his first inventive screenplay makes him rich, and he's basically a good guy. But will that be enough for Anna?
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
PG-13
Year:
2009
100 min
$18,439,082
Website
1,585 Views


-Sure.

-Yeah.

Well, call me tomorrow

if you still like me when you're sober.

I might.

Oh! Thank you for kissing me on the cheek.

I know you didn't have to do...

You're very pretty! Good night!

...first used

roughly 4,000 years ago on Celtic chariots,

was, for the most part,

unchanged by man until the late 1800s.

Hi, I'm Bob:
I'm the spokesperson

for The Coca-Cola Company.

I'm here today to ask you

to continue buying Coke.

I'm sure it's the drink

you've been drinking for years

and if you still enjoy it, well,

I'd like to remind you

to buy it again sometime soon.

It's basically just brown sugar water.

Haven't changed the ingredients much lately,

so there's nothing new

I can tell you about that.

Changed the can around a little bit, though.

You can see the colours are different there,

and we've added a polar bear,

so the kids like us.

Coke's very high in sugar,

and like any high-calorie soda,

it can lead to obesity in children and adults

who don't sustain a very healthy diet.

And that's it. It's Coke.

- Everyone knows it.

I work for Coke.

And I'm asking you to not stop buying Coke.

That's all.

It's a bit sweet.

Thank you.

Hold the elevator.

-Hey, Mark. How's it going?

-Hi, Frank. Not too well.

I went on a date last night with a girl

I've had a crush on for years,

and she'll most likely never call me again.

Oh, and I think I'm getting fired today.

How about you?

Oh, I'm not too great, actually.

I've been throwing up pain killers all night

because I'm too afraid to take enough

to actually kill myself, so...

See you tomorrow.

If I'm not dead, then sure.

-Good. That's settled, then.

-All right. Have a nice day.

Cheers.

This isn't natural!

None of this is natural! We're all animals!

Why am I wearing clothes?

How do you people live like this?

Why is there all this concrete?

I woke up this morning and realised,

not only do I not love you,

but also the thought

of sleeping with you sickens me.

That should make me not love you,

but it only makes me love you more.

I just don't want to go in there today.

I just don't, you know?

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Ricky Gervais

Ricky Dene Gervais (; born 25 June 1961) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, and singer. Gervais worked initially in the music industry, attempting a career as a pop star in the 1980s as the singer of the new wave act Seona Dancing and working as the manager of the then-unknown band Suede before turning to comedy. Gervais appeared on The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 between 1998 and 2000. In 2000, he was given a Channel 4 talk show, Meet Ricky Gervais, and then achieved greater mainstream fame a year later with his BBC television series The Office. It was followed by Extras in 2005. He co-wrote and co-directed both series with Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows, he played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. He reprised his role as Brent in the comedy film Life on the Road. Gervais began his stand-up career in the late 1990s. He has performed five multi-national stand-up comedy tours and wrote the Flanimals book series. Gervais, Merchant and Karl Pilkington created the podcast, The Ricky Gervais Show, which has spawned various spin-offs starring Pilkington and produced by Gervais and Merchant.He has also starred in the Hollywood films Ghost Town, and Muppets Most Wanted, and wrote, directed and starred in The Invention of Lying and the Netflix released Special Correspondents. He hosted the Golden Globe Awards in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016, and appears on the game show Child Support. Gervais has won seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and the 2006 Rose d'Or, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, he was named the third most influential person in British culture. In 2007, he was voted the 11th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 3rd greatest stand-up comic. In 2010, he was named on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. more…

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