Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.The Twister: The Good LiarOscar-winner Bill Condon helms this mystery/thriller, which stars cinematic lion Sir Ian McKellen.
In the film, McKellen plays Roy, an aging Con Juan who seducing older, single women to rob them of their money. His latest target: Betty McLeish (Dame Helen Mirren), a recently widowed professor with a fortune in the bank.
Betty falls hard for Roy’s charms right away, though her grandson Steven (Russell Tovey), smells a plot.More than that we’ll not reveal here, as one of the great charms of The Good Liar is its labyrinth of plot twists, reversals and reveals.