[Movie Monday] Liar Liar

Movie: Liar Liar

Genre: Comedy

Hello, hello! And welcome to another week of Movie Monday!

For next few movies, we’ll be diving into some of Jim Carrey’s movies, and today’s first spotlight is Liar Liar!

The movie Liar Liar revolves around a lawyer by the name of Fletcher Reede, and as a lawyer, all he’s ever learned to do was just lie, lie, lie – All to win for his clients that may or may not always have been in the wrong. The thing is, he’s always been so good with lying that when times arise when he wants to even avoid his own mother, he has his secretary lie for him just so he doesn’t have to talk to his mother. And whenever he breaks a promise he makes and unable to see through to it, he will come up with even more lies to get himself out of trouble. It is also the main reason that drove Fletcher’s marriage to Audrey go down the drain and ending in a divorce, which eventually led Audrey to start going steady with another man, Jerry.

When his son, Max, is having a birthday party, Fletcher completely forgets that he made a promise to his son due to being too preoccupied having sex with his boss for a promotion. When his ex-wife calls him up, asking where he is, he comes up with another lie as he asks her to tell Max ‘Happy Birthday’ for him. And it’s then that Max is told his father won’t make it due to work, and the birthday wish that Max makes when he blows out the candle is he wishes his father wouldn’t lie again.

Sometimes, it’s a wonder what a wish making can do, because from the moment Max makes that wish, Fletcher begins to discover that he can’t bring himself to lie. As a lawyer and always over exaggerating his clients’ stories on top of lying on constant basis, he sees this as a big problem – Especially with a big case in court coming up for money greedy woman, Samantha Cole, coming up. He discovers that the reason to why he can’t lie with only truth spewing out of his mouth is due to his son making a wish that he wouldn’t be able to lie.

Having to go through an entire day of being able to do nothing but tell the truth, Fletcher learns to find his way back not just to his son’s heart but also finding out exactly what it was he’s been missing out on in life the entire time he’s been doing nothing but telling lies to others. And from one simple wish comes a day of adventure with a lot of laughs to follow.

For this comedy, I personally believe that this is one of those movies that I think can be said to be a defiant Jim Carrey Movie.