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The Invention of Lying

The Invention of Lying
2009
 100 minutes (1 hrs 40 mins)

Director and Cast Quickview

Starring

Ricky Gervais · Jennifer Garner · Jonah Hill · Louis C.K. · Jeffrey Tambor · Fionnula Flanagan

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release date US release: 2nd October 2009
United Kingdom release date United Kingdom release: 2nd October 2009
Ireland release date Ireland release: 2nd October 2009

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

  • Debut box office: 2nd Oct '09
  • Debut position: 2
  • Highest position: 2
  • Debut gross: £1.7 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 5

US box office

  • Box Office debut: 2nd Oct '09
  • Debut position: 5
  • Highest position: 5
  • Debut gross: $7 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 9

Chart position history

UK box office

2 Oct, 2009
2
9 Oct, 2009
3
16 Oct, 2009
4
23 Oct, 2009
7
30 Oct, 2009
13

US box office

2 Oct, 2009
5
23 Oct, 2009
15

Global box office

Certificates


12 age rating
US
PG-13

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £6 Million
US total gross
United States Flag  $18.5 Million
Global total gross
Global Flag  $32.4 Million

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News from around the web
The Invention of Lying (2009) ⭐ 6.4 | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance  IMDb Tue, 3rd February 2015

Film review: The Invention of Lying  The Guardian Thu, 1st October 2009

A World Where Truth Turns Out Not to Be Beauty (Published 2009)  The New York Times Thu, 1st October 2009

The Invention of Lying Review  empireonline.com Thu, 14th February 2008

Hidden Gems: The Invention of Lying  Box Office Prophets Tue, 18th April 2017

Ricky Gervais finds a reason to hope in the face of despair movie review (2009)  Roger Ebert Wed, 30th September 2009

This week at the UK box office there was no shifting for Gone Girl as the David Fincher film retains it's hold of the top spot for a second week.

Holding on with a weekend gross of £3.06 million Gone Girl has taken £9.8 million during it's 10 days of release.

Debuting in second place is the latest teen survival movie in the shape of The Maze Runner, based on the first of James Dashner series of books.

Maze Runner takes £2.04 million from the weekend, not a bad debut although in comparison The Hunger Games took £4.9 million on it's debut while Twilight took a comparable £2.5 million.

Also new this week: Horror movie Annabelle at 3, Event film showing for one weekend One Direction Where We Are at 4, romantic comedy The Rewrite is at 9 (are we getting sick of Hugh Grant?).

Historical Charts - One year ago - Prisoners spent an incredible third week at the top of the box office and with a ver static top 5 the highest new film was The Fifth State at 6.

Five years ago - Pixars Up was debuting at the top of the box office knocking off The Invention of Lying which fell to third place.

Ten years ago - Bride and Prejudice as the new film at the top of the charts with the previous weeks number 1 dropping down to third place.

Fifteen years ago - American Pie made it's debut at the top of the box office and Big Daddy fell from the top to the number three spot.