![]() He was witty and charming and he was smart. You don't see a lot of like, Brooks Brothers-types of guys in L.A. I clocked him immediately as very East Coast preppy. I was coming home from Thanksgiving I got on the plane, and there was a guy sitting next to me who was my age. So let's go back to 2015, when you met this man. And every single lie that Dennis Kelly tells in this movie, those are lies that I took from memory that were told to me. I'd say two thirds of that movie are true. The beauty of this movie is that it is accurate. After the truth emerged and the relationship imploded, the stand-up star was reeling, questioning not only her own judgment but the truthfulness of everyone around her. He lied about his job, where he went to college, where he lived, and played on her sympathy with tales of illness and personal hardship that all turned out to be bogus. Shlesinger also wrote the movie, basing it on someone she dated several years ago. If it weren't as ridiculous as it is infuriating, it would play like a horror story as it is, Shlesinger calls the film a "rom- con" rather than a rom-com. In the movie, debuting Wednesday, Shlesinger plays a trusting, successful woman who is deceived and manipulated into romance by a man (played by Ryan Hansen) who builds himself up on a tower of increasingly elaborate lies. By the time she figures out he's not at all who he says he is, he's already woven himself into every part of her life. But the true-life relationship that inspired her new Netflix movie Good On Paper is still appalling to anyone who hears it for the first time.
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