In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
Richard Gere
as Clifford Irving
Alfred Molina
as Dick Suskind
Marcia Gay Harden
as Edith Irving
Hope Davis
as Andrea Tate
Julie Delpy
as Nina Van Pallandt
Stanley Tucci
as Shelton Fisher
David Aaron Baker
as Brad Silber
Mamie Gummer
as Dana
Zeljko Ivanek
as Ralph Graves
Eli Wallach
as Noah Dietrich
Myk Watford
as Sergent Daniels
John Bedford Lloyd
as Frank Mccullough