Lie, The

[Available Oct. 6 on Amazon Prime Video.] When the 15-year-old, bratty, dysfunctional, asthmatic student (Joey King) claims to have pushed her best friend (Devery Jacobs) off a bridge on their way to dance camp in New York in this suspenseful, tense, well-acted, love-it-or-hate-it, 97-minute, 2018 psychological thriller remake of the 2015 German film We Monsters and punctuated by a shocking, climatic ending, her protective, divorced, rock musician father (Peter Sarsgaard) and frantic corporate lawyer mother (Mireille Enos) try to cover up the murder as lies pile up and things go from bad to worse when the missing girl's Pakistani father (Case Anvar) and detectives (Patti Kim and Nicholas Lee) start asking questions.
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