In movies and TV, covering up a crime, even one as drastic as murder, is as common an occurrence as sneezing.
“The Lie” is all about a coverup, but Jay (Peter Sarsgaard) and his 15-year-old daughter, Kayla (Joey King), are hiding a crime that doesn’t feel like a crime.
They’re hiding a freak accident as if it were a crime.
And thus it becomes one.The two are driving through the winter countryside to a weekend retreat hosted by Kayla’s ballet school when they spot her friend, Brittany (Devery Jacobs), at a roadside bus stop.
She’s headed for the retreat too, so they give her a ride, and after stopping the car because there’s no restroom in sight, the two girls wander into the snowy woods to relieve themselves.
Moments later there’s a scream, and Jay finds his daughter perched on the edge of a tall bridge,
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