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Review of by Joe Morgenstern for Wall Street Journal — 30 Sep 2017

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The Hoax is a fraud, and not a very good one at that. Stay with me here because we're about to spiral down the rabbit hole: The movie is a fictionalized account of writer Clifford Irving's fictionalized account of his own fictionalized account of wacky billionaire Howard Hughes.

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This review of The Hoax (2007) was written by and published by Wall Street Journal on 30 Sep 2017.

The Hoax has generally received mixed reviews.

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