'The Good Lie': Inside the Ending — hollywoodreporter.com

[WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Good Lie.] The Good Lie tells the story of a group of Sudanese refugees who come to the U.S., where Reese Witherspoon's character assists them in finding employment and ends up helping them reunite with other members of their family. The film shows their early struggles in Africa and the challenges and rewards they experience in America. But in a twist at the end of the film, one of the refugees, Mamere, makes a heartbreaking sacrifice that gives the film its title. After returning to Africa in hopes of finding his estranged brother Theo and bringing him back to the U.S., Mamere's unable to secure the necessary paperwork to bring Theo with him, so he has his brother pretend to be him so that Theo can go to the U.S. while Mamere stays behind to work in the hospital at the refugee camp. Although Mamere had been studying in the U.S. to become a doctor, he seems at peace with his decision to sacrifice that for Theo.

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