Fletcher Reede, a fast talking attorney, habitual liar, and divorced father is an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career by lying. He has a habit of giving precedence to his job and always breaking promises to be with his young son Max, but Fletcher lets Max down once too often, for missing his own son's birthday party.
But until then at Max has decided to make an honest man out of him as he wishes for one whole day his dad couldn't tell a lie.
When the wish comes true all Fletcher can do is tell the truth and cannot tell one lie. Uh-oh for Fletcher Reede. Having based his life and entire existence to lying, the brilliant, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar, Fletcher Reede, has turned his shameless lies into a career.
But, everything will turn upside down, when on his son Max's fifth birthday celebration the boy wishes that his always absent father would stop lying for a day. Now, Fletcher is forced to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Trust Me. Rated PG for sex related humor and language.
Did you know Edit. Trivia According to an interview with Jim Carrey , he says that the gag of Fletcher chasing his son as "The Claw" was something Carrey's father did to him and his siblings. A minor who enters into a contract can choose to avoid it, but if she turns 18, she only has a limited window in which to declare the intention to avoid the contract. This window is usually six months; for marriage in California, it is two years; past this window, the contract is considered ratified and must be executed.
Given Samantha Cole's age at the time of the divorce hearing, both her marriage AND the prenup should have been considered ratified. However, even if the marriage were valid but the prenup not, her husband clearly states that he "didn't know she was a minor! Quotes Max Reede : My teacher tells me beauty is on the inside. Crazy credits Outtakes are shown during the credits. Alternate versions Randall 'Tex' Cobb 's role "Skull" was considerably shortened prior to release.
Originally filmed was a courtroom prologue where Fletcher successfully defends Skull using his usual, less-than-truthful tactics. Also filmed was a sequence where Fletcher meets Skull again in jail. That scene was shortened in the final version so much that, despite a prominent billing, Cobb only has one line. Hill and Mildred J. User reviews Review. Top review. Liar Liar is about a boy who, after being stood up by his big-shot lawyer father one too many times, wishes that for just one day his dad couldn't lie.
This wreaks havoc on his personal life and even more on his professional life as a lawyer who makes a living putting criminals back on the streets. Carrey is immediately and constantly hilarious in his role as the unwillfully honest Fletcher Reede. Every scene is full of awkwardly straightforward behavior and dialogue "Whatever takes the focus off your head!
Maura Tierney delivers one of the best performances of her career second only to her wonderful job in Primal Fear , but Cary Elwes plays a disappointing turn from his amazing job in The Princess Bride. Seeing him as the endlessly charming Wesley in that film and then seeing him as a squirrely step-father type in Liar Liar just didn't seem to fit, but the film was able to overcome such small problems and present itself as a good and entertaining comedy. In addition to the good comedy that Liar Liar presented, there were strange comedic scenes that Carrey had never done before.
For example, I have never seen him portray a descent into madness as was shown with the blue pen, and it should be noted how well this funny man played the part of a man trying very hard not to be funny, with hilarious results. This is a bit like his role in Man on the Moon where he was a comedian playing a comedian who was often deliberately not funny, and the results there were hilarious as well.
Jim Carrey's great comedy acting skills were a crucial element of this film, but they are not the only redeeming value of the movie itself. The story is solid and legitimate as well, and it is well-presented and directed, resulting in a good, fun comedy. He fails. There's trouble in the courtroom. He can't even plead his client's case, since he knows it's false. As the judge and courtroom look on, Carrey climbs the walls and rolls on the floor, and finally escapes to the men's room, where in an astonishing display of comic energy he mugs himself, hoping to get the case continued.
The movie orchestrates one situation after another in which he has to tell the truth. In one of the best sequences, he disrupts a meeting at his firm by telling the complete truth about everyone present. The movie has been directed by Tom Shadyac , who also did "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', and it's mostly content to plant the camera and watch as Carrey goes bananas.
He's a remarkable physical comedian. At one point, during a truth-telling session with his son, the kid twists his mouth out of shape and asks, "If I keep making this face, will it get stuck that way? Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
Justin Cooper as Max Reede. Maura Tierney as Audrey Reede. Cary Elwes as Jerry. Jennifer Tilly as Samantha Cole. Jim Carrey as Fletcher Reede.
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