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A documentary chronicling sports legend Lance Armstrong's improbable rise and ultimate fall from grace.A documentary chronicling sports legend Lance Armstrong's improbable rise and ultimate fall from grace.A documentary chronicling sports legend Lance Armstrong's improbable rise and ultimate fall from grace.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 wins & 8 nominations total
Michael Bloomberg
- Self - NYC Mayor
- (archive footage)
Bill Clinton Jr.
- Self - Former US President
- (archive footage)
Anderson Cooper
- Self - Interviewer
- (archive footage)
Sheryl Crow
- Self - Lance's Girlfriend
- (archive footage)
Alex Gibney
- Self - Narrator
- (voice)
Tyler Hamilton
- Self - Teammate
- (archive footage)
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Did you know
- TriviaFilmmaker Alex Gibney followed Lance Armstrong for four years with the intent of chronicling his return to cycling after retirement as Armstrong tried to win his eighth Tour de France. Unexpectedly, Gibney was also there when Armstrong admitted to doping, which resulted in the film being retitled from "The Road Back" to "The Armstrong Lie."
- Quotes
Lance Armstrong: I viewed my battle with cancer as an athletic competition. But in that, you either win or you lose. When you lose, or if you lose, you die. So I took that perspective, which is a little dark, and I put it into everything I've done since then. I like to win. But more than anything, I can't stand the idea of losing, because, to me, that equals death.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Venice Film Festival 2013 (2013)
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In 2009 Alex Gibney set out to make a documentary about Lance Armstrong's return to the racing circuit. Armstrong had won the Tour De France seven times and had beaten cancer. He was a winner in every respect until finally the allegations that had dogged him for years, that he had used performance enhancing drugs, caught up with him and on Oprah Winfrey's television show he finally admitted to cheating and Gibney's film, originally designed to celebrate Armstrong, became "The Armstrong Lie", as Gibney searched for reasons for his behaviour. Could it be that he simply had to become a winner whatever the cost? Gibney felt that Armstrong owed him since Armstrong had lied to him in 2009 when Gibney set out to celebrate Armstrong's career, so he continued with his film forcing Armstrong to confront his duplicitous past, (though even now Armstrong is holding some things back), and the result is this extraordinary film. "The Armstrong Lie" is the kind of film that pays tribute, not just to its subject, (though, perhaps, tribute isn't quite the right word in this case), but to the genre itself, (it's as exciting as any fictional thriller). Gibney already has an Oscar under his belt; in a just world he would have added another for this brilliant movie.
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- Jul 10, 2014
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- Also known as
- Lance Armstrong: The Road Back
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $383,294
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $28,992
- Nov 10, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $594,394
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
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