- Movies - Thriller Movies ## Anne Hathaway's Verity Uses A Massively Popular YouTube Show In A Surprising Way This article contains spoilers for "Verity." The new psychological/sexy thriller, "Verity," is based on the novel by popular author Colleen Hoover, and it borrows some of Hoover's structure and literary devices, like a voiceover narration by the protagonist, author Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson). While screenwriter Nick Antosca's script remains surprisingly faithful to Hoover's novel, the liberties he and director Michael Showalter do take with the material are telling, especially…