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Liar Liar (1997) | Nattosheru Review [ENG/SPA]@nattosenpai165d
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  1. Liar Liar@cinetv782d

    "Ohh well yeah, that's because you have BIG..." slap

    I somewhat feel we were more open as a society back in the 90's and could laugh at our own shortcomings a lot better than we can now. I was just watching the whole trailer as I posted this and completely forgot that part of them film. So many giggles.

    Jim Carey was a powerhouse back in the 90's. He could go from really funny and stupid to deadpan serious in seconds. His silly antics and boyish humour swapped for a really serious middle aged man. I always admired that about him, and it's why he was quite a big actor back in the day.

    Liar Liar was one of my favourites, though. It was when mens rights were starting to be a thing. We had not long before had Mrs Doubtfire which was about a man that loved his kids but was taken away from them through no fault of his own and had to dress up as a nanny so that he could see them regularly.

    And now we have Liar Liar which has several subplots in the film that are about loving fathers with their kids and the women that abuse that love and how the family courts were stacked up against men. They seem to be much worse now, but that's another story.

    Anyway, we start off with Fletcher Reede, a fast paced lawyer that makes a lot of money from defending criminals in court. The film doesn't outright state this but you can tell by the way the film goes that he makes a living from getting less than decent people off with less than decent things.

    In most of his cases it seems that he has to lie a lot to get his clients off with what they did, and, he's made a lot of money from it.

    Sadly this rise up the ranks has came at the expense of his ex-wife and son. His wife Audrey, and his son Max are two constant themes in this film and he's always disappointing his son. Mostly it's about telling him that he'll attend a party or be there to pick him up but he has to work and ends up messing things up.

    The way the film is set up you can tell this was more than likely a recurring theme through his marriage and probably why they got split up, although they never outright say the reasons as to why they split up, but a lot of it is implied.

    Anyway, Fletcher has one too many missed Birthday parties and his son ends up making a wish that his criminal defence lawyer dad can't lie for one day. And, the wish takes affect almost immediately as he starts telling the brutally honest truth right away and we're thrown into all sorts of hilarious antics as Fletcher tries to stop himself from telling the truth.

    The film really throws into question how much we lie on the whole as humans and it had me questioning a lot of lieing was a biproduct of speech or working as intended, because it made me think before speech we only had body language and with that you can't lie.

    Anyway, a really good film. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm sure you will too.

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  2. Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter Movie Review@antonireviewer1767d

    Talk about an underrated TV movie that treats everything in this film with subtlety, tact, consciousness and brilliance, it pulls all the stops. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.

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  3. Liar Liar (film): decent comedy from the 90's@gooddream2908d

    Back before Jim Carrey went bat$*t crazy and became a painter, he would release blockbuster movies filled with laughs. This one from 1997 was one of them.

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    The premise behind this movie is something that any of us that have ever had to deal with lawyers can relate to. That is, lawyers are completely full of s**t. They make a living by stretching the truth and excelling at convoluting a situation to the point where justice becomes injustice.

    This is Jim's character in "Liar Liar." He plays Fletcher Reede, a successful attorney whose primary focus in life is the advancement of his career at all costs. He spends every day of his life telling half-truths to people, even the people he cares about. He adores his son Max but one day skips his son's birthday party in order to attempt to advance his career. He lies on the phone about why he can't be there and his son of course is very unhappy about this. Max uses his birthday wish while blowing out the candles to "wish that his father couldn't lie for just one day."

    The wish immediately comes true and Fletcher finds that it is impossible for him to tell a lie or even a half truth. He also can't ask question that he already knows the answer to and also can not opt to say nothing when he knows the truth or has an honest opinion. This causes a lot of problems when he enters his office as he proceeds to tell everyone what he really thinks of them. In a particularly funny scene he is attempting to write lies, only to discover that he is incapable of this as well. He can't even claim that a pen is a different color than it is.

    adbk849wek7z.jpg the pen is BLUE

    The biggest problem is that he has a very important court case on this "day of no lies" and he is very aware of the fact that their entire case is built on lies. He tries everything he can to postpone the case but all of his attempts fail even when he goes to the bathroom and beats himself up.

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    Upon returning to the courtroom the judge simply asks him "are you able to continue?" Seeing as how he is incapable of lying he reluctantly responds "yeeeeeesssss."

    That trailer is really low resolution but i think it kind of adds to the ambiance of this film being more than 20 years old.

    Overall, this is a feel-good comedy that kind of says a lot about all of us in the end, not just lawyers. How often do we pretend to like people that you don't, give compliments to people that don't deserve them, or simply embellish stories that we tell to others?

    This comedy comes highly recommended by me.

    7 / 10

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