TRUE FIBS
Screenplay by Bud Wiggins
Explosive actioner cares about its characters while delivering the carnage. On the trail of nuclear terrorists, CIA agent Jerry Trasker realizes his family is hopelessly dysfunctional because he’s been lying for years about his true profession to unhappy wife Lisa and college-bound daughter Skylar. When Jerry learns she is contemplating an affair with a “real 007” who’s a lying shoe salesman, he tells Lisa the truth about his actual occupation. A skeptical Lisa still doesn’t believe her husband when terrorists kidnap them and Jerry shows off his action hero chops and saves the world from Armageddon. There’s a nice subtext about deception that’s subtly woven into the narrative fabric. That Wiggins pulls off this feisty spy-family concept with such an affecting delivery is fucking remarkable. For Hugo Slater, relationship-driven script adds unexpected dramatic layers to its hi-octane set-pieces and memorably presents a dysfunctional family healing itself.