“The Good Lie,” released Friday, October 3, is positioning itself to be the first entry in the newest awards season. The film has been marketing to seemingly star Reese Witherspoon, but that is the farthest from the truth. Rather than taking the road of films such as “The Blind Side” where the plight is told from the white protagonist view, here we experience something of “12 Years A Slave” where the characters whose story is being told actually take the lead in telling it.

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