Plot Summary
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 5th birthday party when senior partner Miranda lures him into having sex in the office to land a promotion, Max makes a birthday wish for Fletcher to be honest for one day. 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 pre-nup with her soon-to-be ex-husband, Richard Cole. 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 backfires when Mr. Allan and his board mistake Fletcher’s accurate insults for lighthearted roasting. Fletcher tries to delay the case by staging an assault on himself in the men’s room, but he’s unable to lie his way into a continuance, specifically because his only possible grounds were, “I can’t lie.”
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Info & Stats
Director:
Tom Shadyac
Writers:
Paul Guay, Stephen Mazur
Stars:
Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Amanda Donohoe
Categories:
Comedy
Budget:
$45,000,000.00
Revenue:
$302,710,615.00
Age: PG13Â Â |Â Â Duration: 1h 26m
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