Pack of Lies
by Anthony Page
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Actor: Clive Swift, Ellen Burstyn, Ronald Hines, Sammi Davis, Teri GarrDirector: Anthony Page
Brand: Echo
Cinematographer: Kenneth MacMillan
Editor: Chris Wimble
Producer: Arthur Cantor
Producer: Robert Halmi Jr.
Producer: Robert Halmi Sr.
Producer: Terry Lens
Writer: Hugh Whitemore
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 42589
Studio: Platinum Disc
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DVD Review: Cold War Friendship...and Betrayal
Summary: 5 Stars
A PACK OF LIES is way up there on my fab list, not top 10, but pretty close. One reason I like it so much is that Ellen Burstyn & Terri Garr star in it--AND a young Sammi Davis playing Burstyn's impressionable teenage daughter. Another reason I like it is that I have a personal interest in the Cold War Era & the "ordinary" people who were involved in espionage, what made them tick.
Burstyn's character is a pleasant, simple, somewhat repressed middle class British matron who is befriended by the new married couple living across the street--and forms a particularly close friendship with the wife, Garr. Terri Garr's character is younger and their relationship reflects an interesting inversion of the Older Sister-Younger Sister situation. Garr takes her under wing & Burstyn blooms & blossoms with the attention (her own husband is nice, but very conventional). The two households' basically have an open door policy toward each other--except for Sundays. The childless American/Canadian neighbors say that this is their special, inviolate time for themselves alone--always, absolutely no exceptions.
As it turns out, the people across the street are being investigated by British Intelligence and Burstyn & hubbie are first politely asked, then forced under threat of National Security, to spy on them. 24-hr surveillance is set-up in a spare bedroom facing the spy house. The parents even have to lie to their daughter about what is really going on. This poses a terrible moral dilemma for Burstyn, leading to the break down of her health.
The horrible pretence causes Burstyn to quickly spiral downward & emotionally crack. Garr's notices that something is wrong & she keeps pushing to find out what's going on. Eventually Burstyn has to make up yet another lie & admit that she & her husband are having difficulties because he doesn't like Garr's influence over his wife (actually this is partly true). Garr buys into this & steps up her campaign to "liberate" her friend.
Everyone involved feels betrayed--and is. When a very confused Sammi Davis goes to prison to visit "Auntie" Garr, when she asks Garr why she did it (become a Soviet spy), Garr replies, "We believed in it." Then she expresses her anger that Burstyn was responsible for her arrest. She takes no responsibility for the emotional turmoil caused by the incident; while Burstyn is literally consumed with guilt
The script is brilliant, powerful & revealing.
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