"The Birth of a Lie" did not attract much attention after it was released. The reason for the neglect of the film was that it was not well-watched. The "What if" comedy with lying as the theme, Kim Carey has already played quite thoroughly in "The Big Story". The most interesting aspect of "The Birth of a Lie" is that Jennifer Garner was hired as the heroine. In addition, although the director and actor Ricky Zevis of the film has acted in funny series like "The Office", he is a TV person after all, and he has no box office appeal in the film industry. In terms of word-of-mouth, 30 media outlets gave a combined score of 57 points, and the evaluations among the media are polarized. Four media, including the Chicago Sun and The Hollywood Reporter, gave an evaluation of more than 80 points, and nine media including Variety Show and The Washington Post gave an evaluation of more than 70 points. Most of them affirmed Zevis’ acting skills
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The comedy "The Birth of a Lie" seems to be very kind, friendly, harmless to humans and animals, but in fact it contains quite a radical point of view, Roger Albert digs some deep meaning from it
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