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News & Current Events Mar 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM

Oliver Stone Returns With New Film ‘White Lies’, His First Film In A Decade, Starring Josh Hartnett – Follows Jack Freeman, a child of divorce now repeating his parents’ mistakes in his own marriage and with his own children. Feeling trapped, he embarks on a lust-filled journey to free himself.

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https://deadline.com/2026/03/oliver-stone-josh-hartnett-new-movie-white-lies-details-1236764556/
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Covverkin Mar 24, 2026 +87
“Lust-filled journey” doesn’t exactly sound like the remedy to a generational cycle of divorce…
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Nrksbullet Mar 24, 2026 +18
It's the Yin to 40 days and nights Yang
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Dagobert_Krikelin Mar 25, 2026 -1
It's ying and yang. They're opposites. /s
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studio_bob Mar 24, 2026 +2
lmao, my thoughts exactly.
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kiyonemakibi100 Mar 24, 2026 +66
Started cracking up at 'lust-filled journey' - maybe it's a gender-flipped version of Rochelle Rochelle?
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Bournerounderz Mar 24, 2026 +21
A young boy's strange e***** journey from Minsk to Milan?
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Reasonable-HB678 Mar 24, 2026 +14
Instead of Milan to Minsk, it's Southeast Asia- Bali to Bangkok.
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topazco Mar 24, 2026 +7
I prefer a Gene pick
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CammysComicCorner Mar 24, 2026 +5
I prefer Sack Lunch.
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BindermanTranslation Mar 24, 2026 +21
"And his name will be Jack Freeman, because he's just a free man, but not everyone will get that, that's just for the scholars a hundred years from now."
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Relative-Freedom-295 Mar 24, 2026 +34
Directors writing themselves into movies again.
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Typical_Intention996 Mar 24, 2026 +10
I don't think a solo 'lust-filled journey' is going to solve marital problems.
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Gdaddyoverlord Mar 24, 2026 +3
He's gonna figure that out the hard way 
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mr_ji Mar 25, 2026 +1
Quagmire!
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bye4now28 Mar 24, 2026 +4
Josh Harnett will forever be Trip Fontaine to me 🍪
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Typical-Blackberry-3 Mar 24, 2026 +5
Love me some Josh Hearthrob.
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cgknight1 Mar 24, 2026 +9
Why does Oliver Stone look like he's a wax work in that first photo?
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gamersecret2 Mar 24, 2026 +5
Josh Hartnett is a really interesting lead for it too.
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gizmo1024 Mar 25, 2026 +1
The thrilling conclusion to 40 Days and 40 Nights!
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ForgotMyNewMantra Mar 24, 2026 +15
Is his buddy Vladimir executive producer?
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Wazula23 Mar 24, 2026 +5
It's so weird watching Stone become a conspiracy nut tankie. I guess Vietnam will do that to a guy.
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ForgotMyNewMantra Mar 24, 2026 +13
Well... he didn't just become a conspiracy guy. Remember "JFK"? Personally, I don't believe most of the conspiracy the movie is suggesting (and the fact that Stone described JFK as both a "count-myth" as well passing his film as being 'truthful' makes no sense and even hypocritical) BUT regardless I found the film riveting and fascinating as a piece of cinema. But yes, since Russia took over Crimea to the present - Stone has been Putin advocate (and a pro-Kremlin alternative fact pusher) and therefore Stone is nuttier than ever imo.
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Wide_Okra_7028 Mar 24, 2026 +10
Apparently Olly Stone is also absolutely fine with America’s current regime. I remember when he labeled Lyndon B. Johnson’s government as “fascist.”
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ForgotMyNewMantra Mar 24, 2026 +2
I wonder if he thinks this current Iran war (which Trump, a handful of his cheerleaders like Graham, Fetterman and Hegseth and of course Bibi and his posse all support) is a good idea? The reasoning to start a war with Iran is more absurd and ridiculous when the reasoning why the US got into a war with Vietnam which with Stone served...
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Wide_Okra_7028 Mar 24, 2026 +6
He kept quiet about everything else that happened in the name of Orange the Great: ICE detaining people without due process and ripping families apart, executions in broad daylight on the streets, kidnapping the head of state of Venezuela, pondering the takeover of Canada and Greenland, and recently, Cuba. If any other government had even done a fraction of this, he would have written five screenplays already.
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studio_bob Mar 24, 2026 +7
The conspiracy mongering of "JFK" did actual damage to the United States. It's extremely rare that you can say anything like that about a movie. US Congress was obliged to open a fresh inquiry into the subject! The movie gets certain basic facts wrong (which, if corrected, would decisively destroy the primary "mystery" driving the plot) and lionizes a self-promoting nutcase as a "brave truth seeker." In that way, you might say it was perversely ahead of its time, but it contributed to the general, long-term decline of the US into conspiracy-laden mass psychosis, imo. Unfortunately, it's very well made! A perfect example of a fine filmmaker using his powers for evil.
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AmeliaMangan Mar 25, 2026 +4
It's also worth mentioning that JFK is a *f****** bizarre* movie, which I feel like everybody at the time somehow managed to miss (and still does!). As you say, this was a *huge* film, a genuine cultural watershed, and everyone discussed and dissected it ad nauseum, in these hushed, earnest tones, but it truly is just *batshit* insane, the ravings of the guy on the street corner who thinks the truth about the JFK assassination is being beamed into his head by the CIA via his metal fillings. Truly beggars the imagination that it managed to get itself taken so seriously. ...That said, hey, if you only watch *one* film this year in which at one point a powdered and periwigged Joe Pesci leads a n***, gold-painted Tommy Lee Jones around on a leash, then why not make it this one?
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occono Mar 25, 2026 +2
Your example at the end was basically deranged homophobia, for anyone who hasn't seen the film.
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AmeliaMangan Mar 25, 2026 +2
Oh, Jim Garrison's "theory" boils down to [absolutely nothing *but* deranged homophobia](https://airmail.news/arts-intel/highlights/guilt-by-orientation-789). >!"A cabal of evil gays murdered JFK to get their evil gay rocks off, and also because of misplaced Oedipal rage against their dads, and also because Clay Shaw was totes jealous of how hot JFK was"!<. That's it. That's the entire theory, one so madly bigoted that even in the 1960s the general public took one look at it and went, *Nah*.
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MaxProwes Mar 24, 2026 +11
No thanks. Stone is a washed up has been and truly terrible person.
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Suspicious_Hand_2194 Mar 24, 2026 +1
How is he terrible if you don’t mind me asking? I’m genuinely curious, I have no clue. I only know stone through the movies he made
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Nice_Marmot_7 Mar 24, 2026 +12
Conspiracy nut who makes propaganda for Vladimir Putin.
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MaxProwes Mar 24, 2026 +7
Pretty much this. Also judging by his very awkward reaction to Epstein story years ago on Rogan's podcast, I wouldn't be surprised if he's also a pedo, Epstein files mentioned they were supposed to meet around Wall Street 2 shoot, but there's no follow up in the published files.
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MaxProwes Mar 24, 2026 +6
He's a deranged Putin supporter and produced propaganda content for kremlin government with Putin's close friend Viktor Medvedchuk. Also Epstein stuff and a bunch of other things.
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Electric-Lamb Mar 25, 2026 +5
He’s a Putin supporter and made a pro Russian propaganda documentary about Ukraine.
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TopComprehensive8569 Mar 24, 2026 +2
DO YOU MIND?!?!?!
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Intrepid_Hat7359 Mar 24, 2026 +2
Josh Hartnett is feeling [*what*](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt26753003/)?
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MuriloVeratti Mar 25, 2026 +2
Patrick Willems having a big moment right now.
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Horror-Winner-2866 Mar 25, 2026 +1
Enlighten me on why please
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ComfortableCare8897 Mar 24, 2026 +3
I don't understand Oliver Stone's appeal.
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nevergofullretardman Mar 24, 2026 -2
Top 10 Director of all time. Welcome back
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DjToastyTy Mar 24, 2026 +6
top 10????
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TeeFitts Mar 24, 2026 -4
If you were compiling a list of the top 10 American filmmakers in 1998, then the statement would be accurate. Today? Not so much. But Stone did have a phenomenal run in his earlier career.
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noble-failure Mar 24, 2026 -1
In no order (and leaving out so many): Coens, Wilder, Hitchcock, Nolan, PT Anderson, Hawks, Cameron, Kurosawa, Bong Joon Ho, Coppola, Kubrick, Scorsese, Lumet...
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abandoned_rain Mar 25, 2026
It’s all a matter of opinion. If someone wants to put Oliver Stone in their top 10 directors list that’s fine. He did make JFK after all, no one else you listed can say that.
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noble-failure Mar 25, 2026 +1
Fair. Maybe I misread it as an objective top ten versus "my top ten"
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lilpump_1 Mar 24, 2026 +1
“stone we’re good here”
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vroart Mar 24, 2026 +1
Not sure stone has what it takes, his films are over the top camp. Nixon had him talking to paintings and talking about blood in stakes…. When d*** probably has a more realistic depiction of him as they hit he abused pat nixon even in a parody. JFK had the secret cabal of gay sex club were running guns in the bay of pigs. He needs to do something more closer to natural born killer, a platform where he can do exploitation and atill preach his message.
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MissingLink101 Mar 25, 2026 +1
[Sam Campbell in Taskmaster](https://youtu.be/pUWbkTr_zaU?si=bQauZqgvGgi89vJN&t=1251) came to mind when reading the synopsis
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Cavalish Mar 24, 2026
Honestly I respect it. Usually the term “Lust Filled Journey” would be heavily breathed by some old dude about an 18 year old actress cast in a D-grade movie.
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