Pleasantly suprised by The Invention of Lying.

Cute movie, nice script written by the star of the film, Ricky Gervais. It looks at what life would be like if we didn't know how to lie. Apparently without lying, we go around speaking whatever is on our minds and it makes us miserable. It's a whole metaphor for religion, basically, with Ricky as Jesus and it's riddled with stars. ( Look for Edward Norton.) Ricky must have lots of friends in Hollywood. Jennifer Garner is luminescent. She has this face that fools you into thinking she's accessible but then she moves into a certain light or angle and she becomes impossibly beautiful. (Girl crush?) People magazine says she's a good mom, too. Matt Damon should have snagged her. I'm glad I rented it. It's the kind of movie that's perfect to watch while flipping through Good Housekeeping or painting your toe nails. (As an aside, have you ever rented a foreign film that was this kind of boring but you couldn't do anything like file your nails or organize photos because you had to watch the screen in order to read the dialogue? Isn't that frustrating?)