The Good Liar (2019)

Plotzle Original · O109 · June 21, 2026 · Crime

Six plot descriptions for The Good Liar (2019). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A woman falsely imprisoned for her husband's murder spends eighteen years planning revenge against the prosecutor who fabricated evidence and destroyed her family's name in rural Oregon.
2. Two cellmates released from a Canadian prison attempt to rebuild their reputations in a fishing town but their shared history of testimony and betrayal poisons every new relationship.
3. A defense attorney in Detroit known for acquitting guilty clients develops a morphine dependency while representing a serial arsonist who reminds him of his dead son.
4. An undercover narcotics officer in Baltimore gains the trust of a drug syndicate by participating in their operations but becomes indistinguishable from the criminals he was sent to arrest.
5. An elderly career con man targets a wealthy widow worth millions for a swindle, but as their relationship deepens, the scheme becomes complicated and the stakes escalate beyond a simple financial fraud.
6. A forger creates counterfeit immigration documents for desperate families and convinces himself his crimes are humanitarian while his teenage daughter unknowingly benefits from the blood money funding her education.