A Con Man Targeted This Quiet Widow, Unaware She'd Been Hunting Him for 70 Years

Hey there! I'm Warner Movie Recaps! Today, I'm gonna recap the movie, The Good Liar (2019) a slow-burning psychological revenge thriller directed by Bill Condon and starring Helen Mirren as Betty McLeish, Ian McKellen as Roy Courtnay, Russell Tovey as Stephen, and Jim Carter as Vincent. Roy is a career con man who has spent his entire life targeting wealthy elderly widows, and when he meets Betty on a London dating website, he believes he has found his easiest mark ever. What Roy does not know is that Betty has been waiting for him for seventy patient years. And by the time he realizes who she really is, he will have already handed her every penny he owns. ___________________________________________ Become a channel sponsor and you'll get access to exclusive bonuses. Read more: / @warnermovierecaps ___________________________________________ In a quiet corner of London, an elderly widow named Betty McLeish sits at her computer, filling out a dating profile with the careful fingers of a woman who has not looked for love in a very long time. Across the city, an elderly man named Roy Courtnay is doing the same, typing out the details of a life he has invented for the occasion. When the two of them finally meet for dinner, they laugh together over the small lies they both used on their profiles, and for a moment they look like nothing more than two lonely people who have finally found someone who understands them. But Roy Courtnay is not a lonely widower. Roy Courtnay is a career con man who has spent his entire life targeting wealthy elderly women, moving into their homes, gaining their trust, and quietly draining every account they own. Betty is worth several million pounds. Roy limps into her house within days, fakes a bad knee to earn her sympathy, and slowly maneuvers her toward a joint investment account that will empty her savings into his hands. Betty's suspicious grandson Stephen warns her that she is trusting a stranger far too fast. Betty overrules him. Roy files it away with the practiced calm of a man who has heard suspicious grandsons before. What Roy does not know is that the woman across the dinner table is not who she says she is either. Her real name is Lily. Seventy years ago, in a small apartment in postwar Berlin, a German boy named Hans destroyed her entire family after she rejected him her father was executed, her mother took her own life, three of her sisters died in the bombings that followed, and only Lily survived. She spent the next seven decades quietly building a life, waiting for the day she would find the man who took everything from her. And when she saw his profile on a London dating website, she recognized him immediately. Directed by Bill Condon and based on the acclaimed novel by Nicholas Searle, The Good Liar is a psychological thriller about the terrible patience of a woman who spent seventy years waiting to collect a debt, and the moment a career con man realizes the frail elderly widow across the table has been three steps ahead of him from the very first message. Some debts do not close when the war ends. Some prices are paid in a currency the courts do not accept. And sometimes the only justice a woman can find is the one she builds herself, one lie at a time, over the course of seventy patient years. Like if the wrong people finally got what they earned. ___________________________________________ Hey! Welcome to my channel Warner Movie Recaps, here you will find recaps of the best drama, thriller, and crime movies explained in a simple and engaging way. I bring you full movie recaps with clear storytelling so you never miss any important detail. ___________________________________________ Cast: Helen Mirren Ian McKellen Russell Tovey Jim Carter Director: Bill Condon ___________________________________________ Here you can find: movie recaps, movie reviews, movie recap, story recap, story recapped, recap, movie recap, movie recaps, full movie explained, film recap, the good liar 2019 recap, the good liar explained, helen mirren thriller, con man revenge thriller, elderly widow revenge, psychological thriller recap, patient revenge movie #movierecap #storyrecapped #movierecaps