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Moving story told simply in Good Lie
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Emmanuel Jal, from left, Kuoth Wiel, Ger Duany and Arnold Oceng appear in a scene from “The Good Lie.”
The movie poster for “The Good Lie” features a smiling Reese Witherspoon, front and center. But, truth be told, neither Witherspoon nor her character is the film’s star — not in the essential sense. The real stars are the Sudanese children at the bottom of the poster, their backs to us, trudging across an empty, sun-scorched expanse.