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Liar Liar
Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.
1997 · Directed by Tom Shadyac · 86 min · Comedy · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 14 frames
Tagline
Trust me.
Plot
Fletcher Reede is a divorced defense lawyer living in Los Angeles who loves spending time with his young son, Max. However, he has a habit of giving inappropriate precedence to his career, breaking promises to Max and his ex-wife Audrey, and then lying about the reasons. After Fletcher misses Max's fifth birthday party when senior partner Miranda lures him into having sex in the office to land a promotion, Max makes a birthday wish for his father to be honest for one day.
Unaware of his son's wish, Fletcher soon discovers that he is unable to lie, mislead, or withhold the truth. This alienates him from Miranda and his secretary Greta, gets his car impounded when he confesses all of his traffic infractions and unpaid parking tickets to a police officer, and causes him an inability to bend the truth in court.
Fletcher's newest client is Samantha Cole, a gold digger who wants to get around a prenuptial agreement with her soon-to-be ex-husband, Richard. The main witness, Kenneth Falk, with whom Samantha has been cheating, is eager to lie when he takes the stand. However, Fletcher finds in court that his inability to lie includes not being able to suborn perjury. Meanwhile, Audrey is considering a move to Boston with Jerry, who proposed upon receiving a job offer there. Although they have not been together long, she accepts, to protect Max from future disappointments that Fletcher may cause him. Catching wind of Fletcher's inability to lie, Miranda tries to get him fired by baiting him into insulting Mr. Allan, a senior partner at the firm, but this fails when Mr. Allan and his board mistake Fletcher's accurate insults for lighthearted roasting.
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Crew
- Written by: Paul Guay, Stephen Mazur
- Cinematography: Russell Boyd
- Edited by: Don Zimmerman
- Music: John Debney
- Production design: Linda DeScenna
- Produced by: Brian Grazer
Cast
- Jim Carrey as Fletcher Reede
- Maura Tierney as Audrey Reede
- Justin Cooper as Max Reede
- Cary Elwes as Jerry
- Anne Haney as Greta
- Amanda Donohoe as Miranda
- Swoosie Kurtz as Dana Appleton
- Jason Bernard as Judge Marshall Stevens
- Krista Allen as Lady in Elevator
- Jennifer Tilly as Samantha Cole
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
- Budget: $45,000,000
- Box office: $302,710,615
- Themes: california, workaholic, truth, honesty, liar, lawyer, courtroom, ex-husband ex-wife relationship, wishes come true, dramedy
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