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  1. Apr 17, 2015 · True Story: Directed by Rupert Goold. With Jonah Hill, James Franco, Felicity Jones, Maria Dizzia. When disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo - who has taken on Finkel's identity - his investigation morphs into a game of cat-and-mouse.

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  3. Apr 14, 2015 · Franco is his dead-eyed best as Longo, and yet, it still feels like watching James Franco Act with a capital A. He never disappears into the role, and one almost wishes that someone else had...

    • Who Is Christian Longo?
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    • Who Is Michael Finkel?

    Longo was born on Jan. 23, 1974 and met his future wife, MaryJane Baker, when he was only 17. They married in 1993 and had three children: Zachery, Sadie, and Madison. According to Crime Library, long before he was accused of murder, he had committed a series of crimesranging from stealing from employers to forging checks from customers at his busi...

    Before the bodies were discovered, a motel that the Longos stayed at found MaryJane's ID, family photos, and both babies' and women's clothes in their dumpster on Dec. 18, 2001. When confronted, Longo told co-workers that his wife had been having an affair and she went to Michigan with their kids. That same day, a car Longo rented illegally was fou...

    Finkel was a freelance writer for the New York Times Magazine until he was fired for allegedly making up a character in a story about child slavery in Africa. According to the Times, "the title character of his November 18 story, 'Is Youssouf Malé a Slave?' was actually a composite of several young men," which led to him being discredited. After he...

  4. Set around a more straight-faced interview, True Story is based on a real memoir that caught the eye of director Rupert Goold. The story revolves around Franco’s shady character, Christian Longo.

  5. Jan 24, 2015 · “I hate this character,” James Franco said following the Sundance premiere of his new film, True Story. But there’s an undeniable, eerie ease with which he inhabits real-life murderer ...

  6. Apr 16, 2015 · James Franco, with a wispy beard and creepy eyes, is Longo, a development that undoubtedly makes Longo happy as he sits on Death Row at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.

  7. Apr 16, 2015 · Murder mystery, journalism exposé, courtroom drama, metaphysical inquiry into the secret-sharer nature of certain American Bros, proof that James Franco and Jonah Hill can serious-act opposite one another—it seems to be going for any one of these at any given moment, and in the end winds up being not a whole lot more than ostentatiously ...

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