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Lying and Stealing (2019)

★ 5.8 · 371 ratings on TMDB

Good artists create. Great artists steal.

Lying and Stealing poster★ 5.8

Hoping to leave his criminal lifestyle behind him, a successful art thief teams up with a sexy con woman to pull off the ultimate heist and set himself free.

DirectorMatt Aselton
CastAris Alvarado, Emily Ratajkowski, Fernanda Andrade, Frank Clem, Fred Melamed, Joe Bucaro III
GenresComedy, Crime, Drama
The emergence reading

Lying and Stealing keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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