True Story (2015)

Mike Finkel looked like he was on a fast-track to winning a Pulitzer Prize before his latest big article was found to have been potentially loose with his recording of facts (he crafted an amalgam main subject out of experiences that occurred to five people), embarrassing his employer, the New York Times, and leaving him in a difficult position to find another job with so much egg on his face. An opportunity comes from a strange place when it is discovered that a man named Christian Longo had been apprehended and charged with the murder of his family, claiming that he is Mike Finkel, reporter for the New York Times. Finkel's curiosity draws him to reach out, and soon Longo, who respects Finkel's ability, offers to divulge his story for a book to be published after the trial, in exchange for the journalist teaching him how to write. The two become friends, but that friendship is strained by the salacious details of the case, as well as the strain on Finkel's relationship with his supportive girlfriend, Jill