Description: Shot on an iPhone, the faux documentary Phony (2022) goes deep inside the world of toxic masculinity for a film that lays bare the lengths most people will go to in order to become famous. Writer and director David Bush plays a lightly fictionalized version of himself, a documentarian seeking to destroy certain myths about the world of online dating. Realizing that the only way to actually score online dates is to flat out lie on his profile, Bush enlists the help of his womanizing friend Jeff Pearson to finally expose the world of online dating as a scam. Naturally, without stopping to consider all the potentially awful ramifications of this plan, Bush and Pearson soon discover just how easy it is to exploit people on the internet.
