Where the Truth Lies (2005)

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An erotic thriller starring Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth as versions of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin who broke up after a corpse was found in their hotel suite and they were investigated for the crime. It flashes back to their peak when the crime occurred to fifteen years later when a writer is ghostwriting the autobiography for Firth, but she is also receiving the other side of the story from Bacon by reading excerpts from the autobiography that he had written.

 

The movie garnered a bit of controversy when it was released it got a NC-17 rating for graphic sex. The director and Bacon claimed it was because of homophobia as there is a lesbian sex scene and a moment when Firth's character, who's revealed to be bisexual, trying to enter Bacon from behind during a threesome. To be fair though all of the sex scenes are fairly graphic as you see Bacon's balls from behind and multiple frontal shots of women as the hump Bacon and Firth.

 

It's actually kinda of weird watching the movie as seeing Firth lay waste to a church full of people in the Kingsman is less awkward than seeing him get a double BJ from two escorts. The movie is crazy in that it's a lot of he said/he said between the two leads about the night of this murder while Alison Lohman gives a wooden narration as the ghostwriter for Firth while cheesy background music plays over the "big" reveals of what really happened. Definitely crazy on the scale of Color of Night and would make for a great episode.