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Liar Liar

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Liar Liar	label	Liar Liar
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Liar Liar	comment	Liar Liar is a 1997 comedy-fantasy film directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Jim Carrey.Lawyer Fletcher Reede (Carrey) is both career-focused and — as his profession demands — an expert in lying. His son Max (Justin Cooper) gets frustrated at his father always breaking his promises and not spending time with him, the breaking point coming when his father misses his birthday party (his father says he's working; his boss is actually working him). Disillusioned once again, Max wishes while blowing out his cake candles that Fletcher couldn't tell a lie for just one day.And the wish works. For the next twenty-four hours (starting/ending at 8:15 p.m. to be specific) Fletcher is absolutely incapable of any form of dishonesty, no matter how big or small. He can't lie, mislead, withhold information, ask a question if he knows the answer is going to be a lie, or even deceive by remaining silent. He quickly finds just how much he really does lie in one day and how much trouble he gets into because of telling the absolute truth......on the day that not only Fletcher has one of the most important cases of his life, with defenses built mostly on lies, but Audrey (Maura Tierney), Fletcher's ex-wife and Max's mom, is interested in moving with her boyfriend Jerry (Cary Elwes) to Boston, and bringing Max along! Hilarity Ensues.If you're looking for the trope on extremely good liars, which actually used to be named after this movie, see Consummate Liar.
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Liar Liar / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Liar Liar / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: In its purest form. Fletcher and Audrey share a kiss just as Max blows out his birthday candles. They ask if Max wished for them to get back together, but it turns out that they were acting of their own free will.
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Liar Liar / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
Liar Liar / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: During the trial, as an audio recording of Samantha Cole having sex is being played for the court, in an attempt to prove her infidelity to her husband:
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Liar Liar / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Liar Liar / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: After attempting, in private, to lie about the color of a pen, his secretary walks in to find him completely unraveled, muttering "The pen is blue. The pen is blue! THE GODDAMN PEN IS BLUE!"
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Liar Liar / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Liar Liar / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Dana Appleton and her legal team representing Mr. Cole.
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Liar Liar / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
Liar Liar / int_19df659c	comment	It does backfire for Miranda, however. She was out for revenge after Fletcher told her, "I've had better." When she realized he was incapable of lying, she throws him in front of the committee in hopes that his Brutal Honesty would get him fired. Instead, he gets wound up insulting the committee, calls her a slut, and laughs in her face with absolutely no consequences!
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Liar Liar / int_1c2c6e08	type	Ignoring by Singing
Liar Liar / int_1c2c6e08	comment	Ignoring by Singing: Fletcher knows he is cursed to speak the truth when answering a question, but not if he can't hear the question!
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Liar Liar / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
Liar Liar / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: There's nothing really wrong with Jerry, other than being a bit milquetoast. In fact, even this is more of an Informed Flaw. Plenty of children would be doing very well indeed to have a father like him.
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Liar Liar / int_1c3f7219	type	The Roast
Liar Liar / int_1c3f7219	comment	The Roast: Fletcher ends up doing this to a room full of executives once his boss finds his insults hilarious.
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Liar Liar / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Liar Liar / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Instigated by Fletcher himself, no less. His last-minute discovery that Mrs. Cole was underage when she got married, invalidating her prenup but leaving the common-law marriage intact ends up unduly costing an innocent man half his assets.note We might say it could cost a loving father custody of his children too, but Mrs. Cole had already demonstrated herself in court to be an unfaithful wife and an absolutely horrible mother, so at least she likely won't get full or even partial custody without Fletcher representing her anymore. Plus, the husband could always appeal against the decision given the point about the prenup being voidable but not void. After Mrs. Cole turned 18, she had a limited amount of time to render the contract void but she never did, so the prenup and marriage are valid and the judge's ruling erred from the law. The husband would get his assets back having proved adultery and could use the money as leverage for joint custody or even sole custody for himself.
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Liar Liar / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Liar Liar / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: When an attendant asks Audrey what she'd like to drink, she replies that she'll take anything with alcohol.
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Liar Liar / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
Liar Liar / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It's also possible that he did wish for his parents to fall in love again, but the wish had no actual effect, either because it was already happening or because It Only Works Once.
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Liar Liar / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Liar Liar / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Fletcher is magically bound to tell the truth, and has very little control over his tact in telling it, making him this to his clients, to total strangers, and to himself.
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Liar Liar / int_25d95a37	type	Principles Zealot
Liar Liar / int_25d95a37	comment	Principles Zealot: Essentially, this is the result of the wish—Fletcher is an unwilling zealot, admittedly, but his behavior matches a classic comedic Principles Zealot pretty closely.
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Liar Liar / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Liar Liar / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When Max, Audrey, and Jerry walk past some firemen, Jim Carrey can be seen in the background dressed as Fire Marshall Bill from In Living Color!.
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Liar Liar / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Liar Liar / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Due to the nature of Max's wish, the entire movie (except the final scene) is set over three days, with Acts 2 and 3 set on the third day.
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Liar Liar / int_2d266580	type	Face Fault
Liar Liar / int_2d266580	comment	Face Fault: Only Jim Carrey can get away with doing one in live-action and make it look funny.
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Liar Liar / int_2d26bfd6	type	Cardboard Box of Unemployment
Liar Liar / int_2d26bfd6	comment	Cardboard Box of Unemployment: After asking Fletcher if he really didn't want to pay for her raise himself, the scene cuts to Greta packing all of her things into a cardboard box, having resigned in disgust.
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Liar Liar / int_309edee6	type	Divorce Assets Conflict
Liar Liar / int_309edee6	comment	Divorce Assets Conflict: The core of Fletcher Reede's case. His client signed a prenuptial agreement stating that if she cheated, she would be entitled to nothing when divorced by her (very wealthy) husband. The entire case is a joke as the woman is not only clearly guilty of infidelity but shows absolutely no remorse for her wrongdoing, and Fletcher only encourages her to take as much as she possibly can. He finds a loophole when he realizes that, among other things, his client lied about her age and was legally a minor at the time she signed the prenuptial agreement, thus invalidating it and the divorce defaults to the standard half-and-half split.
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Liar Liar / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Liar Liar / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: After Samantha Cole leaves Miranda's office following her introduction to Fletcher, Miranda tells Fletcher that Samantha's case is worth a lot of money to the firm, hinting that the firm is being paid a contingency fee since it's later revealed that a settlement offer has been made and refused, whereas if the firm were accepting a flat fee, the amount of Samantha's settlement would be irrelevant, and there would be no need to bring Fletcher in to replace the attorney who refused unethical behavior earlier in the movie. Attorneys are barred from accepting divorce cases on a contingency basis, unless it's a suit to recover past-due alimony or child support. Contracts with a minor are considered voidable, not void ab initio. A minor who enters into a contract can choose to void it, but once they turn 18, they only have a limited window in which to declare the intention to void the contract. This window is usually six months — for marriage in California, it's 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 weren't, her husband clearly states that he "didn't know she was a minor!" At this point, he could probably get an annulment on the grounds of fraud, reverting Samantha to status quo ante matrimonium - i.e., legally in possession of none of his wealth. Further to the above, the judge would not just stop the trial and render a verdict midway through. It would have continued until both sides had presented all their evidence, called all their witnesses, etc., and made their closing arguments. One scene is premised on the idea that the judge can't stop Fletcher from badgering a witness because "it's his witness." A real-life judge would probably put a stop to that and give the lawyer a dressing down for it. Fletcher's secretary claims someone broke into her friend's house, fell and injured himself in her kitchen and sued her with the help of a lawyer like Fletcher. Fletcher then claims he could have gotten him more. Such a suit is legally impossible, even in California — an intruder illegally entering a dwelling cannot sue for injuries caused by breaking and entering. Detailed explanation here. Samantha's husband's lawyer presents a tape recording to be used against her in court. Tape recordings are not admissible as evidence without foundation in a court of law, which isn't given even though the content of the tape is irrelevant in her case. Additionally, California's strong laws on electronic surveillance forbid this except by two-party consent (which obviously did not occur here). The private investigator might also be in trouble here for invasion of privacy. Many courthouses do not allow cell phones at all. Even those who do don't allow them in the courtroom. Like most courtroom scenes, the film shows lawyers entering the "well" of the court (i.e. the area between the tables and the judge's bench), in a serious breach of courtroom etiquette. They aren't allowed to do this without the judge's permission, and this doesn't happen except to have a sidebar with him. When questioning witnesses, they stand at the podium. In the analysis of an actual lawyer (Part 2), while there are accurate moments (such as when Fletcher notes that suing the impound lot for scratching his car wouldn't be worth it), the fact that Fletcher used to defend criminals and accepts a divorce case is an unusual change, Fletcher could not yell "Settle!" before talking to his client first, and a throwaway line regarding filing would be enough for disbarment (respecting the court clerk's deadlines is Serious Business!). After the judge turns down Fletcher's request for a continuance, it's revealed that Richard has offered 10% of his estate to settle the case without going to trial, with Fletcher's reaction making it clear that no-one told him about this. At this point, Fletcher would have been perfectly in his rights to make another request for a continuance in order to try to conduct further negotiations over a possible settlement, and the judge would more than likely have granted it (though Samantha could potentially have over-ruled Fletcher if she was really stubborn).
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Liar Liar / int_333fd7ca	type	Awkward Kiss
Liar Liar / int_333fd7ca	comment	Awkward Kiss: Fletcher is visibly confused as to what is going on when Miranda begins to make out with him.
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Liar Liar / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Liar Liar / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: After the judge rules in Samantha Cole's favor and grants her 11 million dollars, she then declares that she isn't going to adhere to their original deal to share custody, and instead plans to contest custody to get another $10,000 from him. She specifically says she's doing this just to hit him where it hurts.
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Liar Liar / int_34f590c9	type	Off on a Technicality
Liar Liar / int_34f590c9	comment	Off on a Technicality: How Fletcher wins the trial. He even cites it.
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Liar Liar / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Liar Liar / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: "Here's your raise!"
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Liar Liar / int_375b6a06	type	That Was Objectionable
Liar Liar / int_375b6a06	comment	That Was Objectionable: Possibly the most honest example in fiction.
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Liar Liar / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Liar Liar / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Fletcher dramatically spitting out water in court is an element taken from Jim Carrey's stand-up act. The courtroom scene where Fletcher gets put into contempt is an homage/ripoff to All of Me and the actor playing the judge in that scene plays the blind saxophonist in that film.
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Liar Liar / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Liar Liar / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Fletcher realizes all his mistakes and becomes more sincere and careful about his relationship with his family (especially with his son) as the movie goes on.
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Liar Liar / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
Liar Liar / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Jerry, whose constant chipper demeanor irritates Fletcher. Even Audrey concedes that Jerry is, as Fletcher says, "magoo" (meaning excessively cheerful). Jerry even firmly stays in the trope when willingly giving up Audrey and Max so they can stay close to Fletcher, that even with the gravity of the decision, he's happy that Max is happy.
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Liar Liar / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
Liar Liar / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: Fletcher has one after Audrey tells him about Max's wish, taking a few seconds to connect this with his sudden inability to lie.
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Liar Liar / int_4766ca14	type	Volleying Insults
Liar Liar / int_4766ca14	comment	Volleying Insults: The scene in the Large Ham quote.
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Liar Liar / int_476a08e3	type	Women's Mysteries
Liar Liar / int_476a08e3	comment	Women's Mysteries: Inverted - Fletcher uses men's mysteries to get a recess in the court, citing a link between a full bladder and male prostate issues and counting on the judge not knowing whether this is medically accurate or not. Played for Laughs when the judge asks if that's true (to which a bewildered - and still forced to tell the truth - Fletcher responds, "It has to be!"). Cue multiple men, including the judge, leaving for the toilet.
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Liar Liar / int_4b25ddd8	type	Prenup Blowup
Liar Liar / int_4b25ddd8	comment	Prenup Blowup: The main case involves a Gold Digger attempting to get half of her husband's assets, despite the fact that the prenup he had her sign before marriage stipulated that, if she was unfaithful, she gets nothing. The husband's case seems ironclad, and there is even an audio recording of the wife having sex with her lover. The protagonist is an Amoral Attorney representing her who is unable to lie for one day (thanks to a wish made by his son) and, thus, can't win the case in his normal manner (he can't even ask a question that he knows will be answered by a lie). Interestingly, the husband was willing to settle for a decent sum of money, despite the prenup in order to spare their children the unfortunate experience, but the wife wanted more. The protagonist wins the case by sheer chance, when he discovers that the wife was underage when she got married but lied about it. Thus, the prenup is invalid, and the wife is granted half of the assets. Then the protagonist realizes the mistake he made when he sees the wife trying to continue the battle by demanding full custody of the kids, despite the fact that she doesn't care about them, while her ex-husband is a loving father, all to get extra money from child support payments. At the beginning, it is the protagonist who convinces the wife to fight the prenup in court, claiming that her husband was the one who drove her into the arms of another man. The film makes it pretty clear, though, that nothing of the sort happened.
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Liar Liar / int_4b50895	type	Taking the Kids
Liar Liar / int_4b50895	comment	Taking the Kids: Two parallel cases - Fletcher's client insists on taking the kids from their loving father not because she cares about them but because she can use them to milk him for child support payments. Meanwhile, Fletcher is in danger of losing his own son when Audrey moves to Boston.
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Liar Liar / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Liar Liar / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Fletcher manages the rare feat of shocking himself with his own wham line, courtesy of the truth-telling curse.
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Liar Liar / int_4fbc0887	type	Beneath the Mask
Liar Liar / int_4fbc0887	comment	Beneath the Mask: Being forced into Brutal Honesty makes Fletcher reveal his low opinion of his own job and co-workers, as well as his distaste for the Amoral part of being an Amoral Attorney.
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Liar Liar / int_51561f43	type	Hurricane of Euphemisms
Liar Liar / int_51561f43	comment	Hurricane of Euphemisms:
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Liar Liar / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
Liar Liar / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Richard and Samantha Cole are this. Richard Cole's age is never stated, so we don't know if this crosses into Mayâ€“December Romance, but Samantha is thirty-one, and Richard looks at least 15-20 years older than her. It turns out that Samantha was only seventeen when she married Richard, but changed her birthdate on her driver's license so that she'd be able to legally get married without parental consent. The fact that she was a minor when she got married meant that the prenup was void, and thus she was still entitled to half of Richard's assets.
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Liar Liar / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Liar Liar / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Fletcher beats the ever-living crap out of himself in the bathroom so that the court session could be postponed. When asked who did it, he describes the assailant-himself-as "A madman, your honor! A desperate fool on the end of his pitiful rope!" Still, Fletcher's scheme fails when he's forced to admit that he still feels physically able to continue with the case.
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Liar Liar / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Liar Liar / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: Fletcher pulls this off in order to get an extension on the trial without lying. He beats himself up in the bathroom, stumbles into the court and truthfully describes his attacker (himself).
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Liar Liar / int_5b6e57e	type	Required Secondary Powers
Liar Liar / int_5b6e57e	comment	Required Secondary Powers: In a way, and for plot purposes. Not only does he have a truth-telling "superpower", but he also seems to be incapable of holding back the truth that is on his mind and spits it right out. For instance when he's pulled over by the police Fletcher seems incapable of reserving his Fifth Amendment right to stay silent, or simply say "yes" when asked if he knows why he was pulled over. (See "Long List" above for a quote from the scene). If he were able to at least keep his mouth shut when the truth wouldn't do him any favors, the movie would be very different. He also learns, to his horror, that he can't ask witnesses in court rehearsed questions if he knows they're going to lie. And he demonstrates a zig-zagging inability not to tell the direct truth — he never tells the judge he's ill but then talks as if he is, but when asked if he can proceed with the trial after his "mugging", he says yes instead of simply stating he'd prefer not to.
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Liar Liar / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Liar Liar / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The final scene takes place one year later, where Audrey and Fletcher romantically pair up again and repair the family unit for good.
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Liar Liar / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Liar Liar / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Jerry tells Audrey and Max they don't have to move to Boston with him once Fletcher makes amends with Max. While he tells Audrey she's welcome in Boston if she changes her mind, he's sincerely satisfied that Max "has his father back.".
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Liar Liar / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Liar Liar / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Even when acting completely insane, Fletcher is still an exceptional attorney.
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Liar Liar / int_63c6a75c	type	Evil Lawyer Joke
Liar Liar / int_63c6a75c	comment	Evil Lawyer Joke: The whole film.
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Liar Liar / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Liar Liar / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Reede does an over-the-top one right before his That Was Objectionable moment.
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Liar Liar / int_646b9cc8	type	Organ Autonomy
Liar Liar / int_646b9cc8	comment	Organ Autonomy: THE CLAW!
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Liar Liar / int_66805a18	type	Race for Your Love
Liar Liar / int_66805a18	comment	Race for Your Love: Interesting version - it's a father's love for his son that's being raced for here.
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Liar Liar / int_668a5371	type	Necktie Leash
Liar Liar / int_668a5371	comment	Necktie Leash: Miranda grabs and pulls Fletcher by the tie, bringing his lips to hers.
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Liar Liar / int_67b65531	type	"Double, Double" Title
Liar Liar / int_67b65531	comment	"Double, Double" Title: The title is made by duplicating the word "Liar", as a reference to the main character, who was constantly lying, and also to "Liar, liar, pants on fire."
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Liar Liar / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Liar Liar / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Par for the course in a Jim Carrey film. Fletcher is melodramatic throughout, mostly in frustration with the truth curse and the effects it has on his life. The best example occurs when he attempts to beat the curse and will himself to lie: In a hilarious outtake, Swoosie Kurtz calls Carrey "Overactor!" in the court scene, then says the director put her up to it.
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Liar Liar / int_6aab3ca0	type	Shockingly Expensive Bill
Liar Liar / int_6aab3ca0	comment	Shockingly Expensive Bill: Fletcher's unpaid parking tickets come to $1654.11.
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Liar Liar / int_6ac3af76	type	Divorce Is Temporary
Liar Liar / int_6ac3af76	comment	Divorce Is Temporary: Fletcher and Audrey share a kiss in the final scene, at Max's sixth birthday party. They of course ask their son if he made another birthday wish to cause them to get back together - and he replies that he wished for Rollerblades, meaning Audrey and Fletcher's romance is rekindling on its own.
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Liar Liar / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Liar Liar / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Parodied. Jennifer Tilly's character Really Gets Around, but Fletcher convinces her that she was "driven into the arms of another man." Meanwhile, he's pretty much lost his son as a result of his own infidelity.
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Liar Liar / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Liar Liar / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Fletcher Reede". A fletcher is an arrowsmith, while a reed of course, is the wetland plant. The two play into Fletcher being a crooked lawyer as opposed to a "straight arrow".
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Liar Liar / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
Liar Liar / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: The rule of the truth curse is that Fletcher is incapable of any direct or indirect lie, no matter how big or small. It is a little shaky on how he can use Metaphorically True, in some cases he cannot withhold information as his silence would be a lie in and of itself (such as the elevator scene; "It was me!") and even could not ask a rhetorical question knowing the answer to be a lie, but he was nearly able to stall the divorce proceedings via subtle deception (describing his attacker with his same physical characteristics and psychological profile, leaving out that he beat himself up). Of course, some of this could be explained in that Fletcher is naturally a Motor Mouth and Large Ham, making it less that he can't play with the truth and more that he can't keep a straight face long enough before blurting something out, which has to be the truth.
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Liar Liar / int_6eeba1cb	type	Shut Up, Kirk!
Liar Liar / int_6eeba1cb	comment	Shut Up, Kirk!: Played for Laughs since Fletcher does this to himself!
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Liar Liar / int_6ef186d3	type	Speaks in Shout-Outs
Liar Liar / int_6ef186d3	comment	Speaks in Shout-Outs: Fletcher's "wake up sisters" speech references Ike and Tina Turner's relationship, Tina Turner's cover of Proud Mary, and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, which features both Tina Turner in the role of Auntie Entity, and the song "We Don't Need Another Hero," sung by Tina Turner.
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Liar Liar / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
Liar Liar / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: Mrs Cole, revealed by her "sex tape".
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Liar Liar / int_701cb9a5	type	Sex at Work
Liar Liar / int_701cb9a5	comment	Sex at Work: Fletcher misses his son's birthday when heâ€™s forced to have sex with his boss in her office.
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Liar Liar / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Liar Liar / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: In an interesting example, Fletcher realizes that he's the villain at the end, when he wins millions for his client through Loophole Abuse. Putting aside the fact that this wouldn't work in real life (see Hollywood Law, above), the fact remains this was a case of a rich, older guy marrying a 17-year-old girl (thinking she was 18). She was too young to make an informed decision about either marriage or a pre-nup, so it's hard to feel especially bad for the guy.
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Liar Liar / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Liar Liar / int_76b4b7dd	comment	Judge Stevens reacts to almost everything ridiculous that goes on in his courtroom with stoic sarcasm:
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Liar Liar / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Liar Liar / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: The premise of the story.
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Liar Liar / int_780e2082	type	Slimeball
Liar Liar / int_780e2082	comment	Slimeball: Samantha Cole only married Mr Cole for his money, cheated on him seven times, is sexually inappropriate with Fletcher multiple times,and, Lied about her age on her prenup. She gets away with all of it thanks to Fletcher, and, as if this weren't enough, she tries to get custody of the kids (who she obviously doesn't give a damn about) just so she can get more money out of Mr.Cole due to child support.
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Liar Liar / int_7a14cdba	type	Chewbacca Defense
Liar Liar / int_7a14cdba	comment	Chewbacca Defense: In a deleted scene, Fletcher defends an incredibly guilty mugger, somehow spinning his robbing an old man at the ATM and beating up a cop who tried to arrest him into his trying to help the man pick up dropped coins, him being mistaken for a mugger, then attacked by the police. It's truly epic to watch. And it works.
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Liar Liar / int_7b50237d	type	Distinction Without a Difference
Liar Liar / int_7b50237d	comment	Distinction Without a Difference: "Liar" and "lawyer" from Max's perspective, as shown in the exchange between Max and his teacher.
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Liar Liar / int_7c7ee100	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
Liar Liar / int_7c7ee100	comment	Cannot Tell a Lie: Because of Max's wish, not only is Fletcher incapable of lying, he is compelled to answer any question posed to him, usually to the best of his ability.
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Liar Liar / int_7cc1924a	type	Handshake Refusal
Liar Liar / int_7cc1924a	comment	Handshake Refusal: Double Subversion. When Mr. Allan offers to make Fletcher a partner at his law firm, a stunned Fletcher accepts and shakes his hand briefly, but then jerks his hand away after his Heel Realization.
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Liar Liar / int_7d36715f	type	Gasshole
Liar Liar / int_7d36715f	comment	Gasshole: "It was me!" as Fletcher retreats from an elevator whose other passengers are holding their noses and looking daggers at him.
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Liar Liar / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Liar Liar / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Once he's over the shock of spitting out the truth without thinking, Fletcher chuckles over saying, "I've had better" after sex with Miranda. Meta example at the end of the Blooper Reel. Carrey genuinely cracks up after his co-star (as part of a prank) calls him an over-actor mid-performance.
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Liar Liar / int_80818684	type	Sleeping Their Way to the Top
Liar Liar / int_80818684	comment	Sleeping Their Way to the Top: Fletcher is forced to sleep with Miranda, his (female, good-looking) immediate boss in the hopes that it'll help further his career to finally make partner. His son's birthday wish takes effect at exactly the wrong time...
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Liar Liar / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Liar Liar / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Jim Carrey, of course. The outtakes even have this exchange: Followed by Kurtz pointing to someone off-camera (Tom Shadyac, the director), saying he put her up to it, and Carrey hugs her, mugging hammily, "Oh no! They're on to me!"
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Liar Liar / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Liar Liar / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: See Long List.
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Liar Liar / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Liar Liar / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: Fletcher's supposed legal "slam dunk" isn't quite legally correct. Just because Samantha was a minor when she signed the prenup doesn't automatically render the contract void. It makes it voidable, which means that she would have the option of voiding it upon reaching the age of majority. And while it could be claimed that she's expressing that wish now, the fact that she's lived as Richard's wife and enjoyed the benefits of marriage could be used to argue that her actions have been affirming the prenup for 13 years. The truth is, the case would continue for a while and would most likely be decided in the husband's favor. Samantha reneges on the agreement to share custody because she wants to milk Richard for child support. However, child support legally belongs to the child. If Richard proved Samantha was spending child support money on herself, she'd likely lose custody. Miranda says that the case is worth a lot of money to the firm. However, a divorce case cannot be paid on contingency (where the lawyer receives a percentage of the award if they win). Therefore, this case can only be worth whatever the hourly billing rate is, and there can be no huge payout for a quick decisive win. In fact, a quick win gets them less money than a long loss. This one could be handwaved, however, if you assume that what Miranda means is that the case is becoming something of a media circus (Mr. Cole was a multi-millionaire and the movie was made at the same time as the divorce proceedings that made Anna Nicole Smith a household name), and that winning the case would be good publicity that would attract future high-profile and potentially-lucrative divorce cases to the firm. The Judge held Fletcher in contempt of court despite the fact court was already adjourned. The most that the Judge could have done at that point was have the bailiff physically eject Fletcher from the building. The burglar suing someone because they were injured while breaking and entering into a home? Thatâ€™s a legal urban legend, as LegalEagle pointed out when he took a look at this movie.Explanation The closest that any case even comes to such a lawsuit is Katko v. Briney, also pointed out by LegalEagle. The case seems like a Frivolous Lawsuit at first: it's a true story of a burglar suing the people he robbed. But it comes to light that Edward Briney, one of the homeowners, had mounted a 20-gauge spring-loaded shotgun (aimed downward so as to shoot an intruder's legs, rather than cause a mortal injury) in the farmhouse and rigged it to fire when the north bedroom door was opened â€” and all of this was done in an unoccupied house, so there wasn't even a potential justification of the homeowners being in danger as they lived elsewhere. A month later, on July 16, 1967, Marvin Katko entered the farmhouse with the intent of robbing the place. When Katko tripped the trigger mechanism, the shotgun fired into his legs at point-blank range. The gunshot wounds required hospitalization, and Katko sued the Brineys after his release from the hospital for his injuries. The case went all the way to the Iowa Supreme Court, who ruled in Katko's favor. The court said that the Brineys would have had the right to defend themselves had they been there, as a homeowner has no obligation to make their home safe for someone who's robbing them. But using a shotgun booby trap to maim or kill an intruder when the homeowner wasn't present was determined to be unreasonable force, and the Brineys had to pay for Katko's injuries. If a lawyer was brought back from the bathroom looking quite worse for the wear by a security guard who said it looked like someone beat the crap out of him and the lawyer corroborated this, the judge wouldn't merely ask said lawyer if he's able to continue; everything would come to a dead stop, the entire courthouse would be put on lockdown save for the police, maybe even SWAT if they were called in, there would be a rampant manhunt for the person who assaulted a lawyer in a courthouse since that is hardly anything to take lightly. Once it was discovered that there was no assailant and Fletcher actually beat himself up, considering he lied to a judge and sent the police on a wild goose chase wasting taxpayer money and city resources, it is almost certain that he would be permanently disbarred, slapped with several hefty fines and would likely see jail time.
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Liar Liar / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Liar Liar / int_890d4ef2	comment	Insult to Injury: A passerby giving Fletcher money as he sags despondently on the courthouse steps following his self-inflicted beatdown.
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Liar Liar / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Liar Liar / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: When Greta is skeptical about Fletcher's story about his curse, Fletcher wants to prove it to her by having her ask him something he'd normally lie about. Without missing a beat, Greta inquires about a raise Fletcher flaked on, causing Fletcher to immediately regret it and tries to drown out the question of whether he simply didn't want to "pony up the dough" to no avail, causing Greta to quit on the spot.
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Liar Liar / int_8dc8a02d	type	Derailing Love Interests
Liar Liar / int_8dc8a02d	comment	Derailing Love Interests: Averted. Jerry is introduced as a genuinely nice and sweet man who treats Audrey and Max well, and although he doesn't care for Fletcher, he's civil to him. When he realizes Fletcher still loves his family and the lengths he'll go to in order to keep them, he lets them go and just lets Audrey know he's there if she changes her mind. The only thing you could really say about him is that he's a bit of a goofball, which Audrey admits he can be sometimes.
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Liar Liar / int_90ab3c7e	type	Heart Is Where the Home Is
Liar Liar / int_90ab3c7e	comment	Heart Is Where the Home Is: The Love Triangle is done at a state level, as the movie is set in California and the non-local love interest is from Boston. The reason behind Fletcher's despair is that his ex has custody of his son and he'll lose almost any chance of seeing him if he moves across the country.
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Liar Liar / int_920b5728	type	Sleeping with the Boss
Liar Liar / int_920b5728	comment	Sleeping with the Boss: Fletcher is sleeping with his boss â€” until the wish comes into effect and he makes a truthful (and uncomplimentary) comment about the sex they just had.
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Liar Liar / int_9356365b	type	Inflationary Dialogue
Liar Liar / int_9356365b	comment	Inflationary Dialogue: During the final stages of the trial:
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Liar Liar / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Liar Liar / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Fletcher has two of them: "Lemme tell you somethin'! I'm a bad father! ... I mean... I'm a bad father..." The second regards his professional one when he wins the case for Mrs. Cole and realizes how horrible she truly is when she won't even let her ex-husband say goodbye to their kids. Needless to say, he's rather horrified by his actions. Also, the people he was sucking up to make partners only saw the kids as legal leverage leaves him downright disgusted. At the beginning, she agreed to sharing custody with the father, saying he's a good father. Aside from her infidelity, she seems to be much more pleasant at the beginning, and Fletcher realizes the much more unpleasant Mrs. Cole at the end was at least partially his fault.
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Liar Liar / int_96b68af2	type	Desk Sweep of Rage
Liar Liar / int_96b68af2	comment	Desk Sweep of Rage: During the pen scene, the arm holding the pen starts acting by itself and swats the table's contents away.
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Liar Liar / int_97025971	type	Special Occasions Are Magic
Liar Liar / int_97025971	comment	Special Occasions Are Magic: On his 5th birthday, Max wishes that his dad couldn't lie. His wish comes true, which the judge notes can happen due to "24-hour curses". At the end of his movie, his parents fear it will happen again when he turns six, implying that this always happens on Max's birthdays.
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Liar Liar / int_970ccfec	type	Big "YES!"
Liar Liar / int_970ccfec	comment	Big "YES!": Fletcher belts one out after preventing the plane to Boston from taking off... followed immediately by a Big "NO!" as he crashes into a pile of traveling bags and cargo.
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Liar Liar / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Liar Liar / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: The discussion between Fletcher's boss and the lawyer who won't take the case is there to explain the job of a lawyer to the audience.
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Liar Liar / int_99156d7e	type	Head Desk
Liar Liar / int_99156d7e	comment	Although it doesn't work, Fletcher gets the idea to make it look like he was attacked in the bathroom (so as to postpone the trial) after banging his head on the wall too hard.
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Liar Liar / int_9923f95e	type	Head Desk
Liar Liar / int_9923f95e	comment	Headdesk: Fletcher does this in court, getting a piece of paper stuck to his forehead.
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Liar Liar / int_99e87707	type	When You Coming Home, Dad?
Liar Liar / int_99e87707	comment	When You Coming Home, Dad?: Max is constantly upset at how Fletcher is always late to meet him. When he doesn't cancel things at the last minute.
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Liar Liar / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Liar Liar / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Fletcher, in his cursed state, tells the bum outside the courtroom that he won't give him change because a) it'll be blown on booze and b) Fletcher's cheap. We learn how truthful Fletcher is about the latter, when he's forced to confess to Greta he didn't give her a raise simply because he was too cheap to do so, causing her to quit.
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Liar Liar / int_9d589fc3	type	Tension-Cutting Laughter
Liar Liar / int_9d589fc3	comment	Tension-Cutting Laughter: Provided by Fletcher's boss who misinterprets Fletcher's Brutal Honesty as a roast.
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Liar Liar / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Liar Liar / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "I! CAN'T! LIE!"
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Liar Liar / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
Liar Liar / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: When forced to tell the senior partners what he really thinks of them, he saves himself from near-certain firing when the chairman thinks he's being roasted and starts laughing.
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Liar Liar / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Liar Liar / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Fletcher has two. One when he realizes how he's functionally ruined his relationship with his son, and a second when he realizes that his lies from the previous day have turned Mrs. Cole into a petty, vengeful ex-wife.
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Liar Liar / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
Liar Liar / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: Jars of Clay's "Five Candles (You Were There)" was originally written with the intent of being used for the film during the end credits.
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Liar Liar / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
Liar Liar / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: Fletcher and Audrey are this during the film's Extremely Short Timespan; they are completely civil with each other (Fletcher even takes Audrey's jabs at his infidelity in stride), and while Audrey is angry enough with Fletcher's flakiness to be willing to accept Jerry's proposal and take Max with her to Boston, she also shows genuine concern with his remorse over this trait and knows he's a good man and father when he makes the effort. After a time skip of a year in the coda, they get back together.
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Liar Liar / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Liar Liar / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Mrs. Cole has cheated on her husband several times, it's hinted that she's not completely sure both her children are her husband's, and after Fletcher convinces her she's the victim, she becomes a complete Jerkass who uses her children for emotional gain in court. And thanks to a technicality no one saw coming, she wins the case and gets the standard divorce settlement of half her husband's assets, over 10 million dollars, and decides to sue for sole custody of the kids to get even more money in child support and deny her husband the right to them. Her getting away with all this is actually a major plot point, when Fletcher realizes it's his fault she was able to do all this and succeed. The impound lot attendant. When Fletcher rants that he won't do anything about the scratch on his car, which the attendant dismissively said was already there, because even if he sues the impound company will ignore the court's ruling, the attendant just replies matter-of-factly "You've been here before, haven't you?" indicating that he knows this is the company's modus operandi and has no problem with it.
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Liar Liar / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Liar Liar / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: Fletcher gets hit like a ton of bricks when he finally realizes how his behavior is affecting his son Max:
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Liar Liar / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Liar Liar / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Fletcher occasionally reacts to things that frustrate him with dry witticisms, such as remarking that he's glad his gift to Max (a baseball glove, among other equipment) could bring Max and Jerry closer together, after Jerry sees the gift and offers to play catch with Max. Audrey also has her moments; when Fletcher makes a joke about not provoking gang members, she quips that they'd never hurt him because "you're their lawyer", and when Fletcher thanks Audrey for paying his impound fee, saying she doesn't know how much it means to him, she drolly replies "I can; $1,654 and eleven cents." Judge Stevens reacts to almost everything ridiculous that goes on in his courtroom with stoic sarcasm: Also, when he asks Fletcher a reason why delay the case.
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Liar Liar / int_af2547c9	type	Informed Flaw
Liar Liar / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: While roasting the committee, Fletcher tells one man that his hairpiece "looks like something that was killed crossing the highway. I don't know whether to comb it or scrape it off with a shovel and bury it in lime!" It's actually quite passable.
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Liar Liar / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Liar Liar / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Mrs. Cole at least SEEMS in the early parts of the movie to be somewhat fettered with how Miranda and Fletcher mean to win her case. She flat-out brings up how none of their arguments are true, talks about how good a father Mr. Cole is, and reiterates the extreme number of times she had sex with the other guy after Fletcher mistakenly assumes it was only once. After Fletcher convinces her that she's a victim, over the course of the movie, she gets markedly more shrewish and outright hostile near the end until she's treating her children like objects and telling Mr. Cole to get to writing checks after Fletcher wins the case.
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Liar Liar / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Liar Liar / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: The film plays with this back and forth. On the one hand, sometimes Fletcher is able to tell the truth in a roundabout way; when he beats himself up and the Judge asks who did it, Fletcher gives a physical description of himself rather than just say he did it himself. He's also able to say things that may or may not be true but he believes them to be true, such as when he tells Judge Stevens that he's heard about potential health risks associated with not being allowed to go to the bathroom. On the other hand, when the time comes for Fletcher and Mr. Falk to go over the testimony they've rehearsed, Fletcher finds himself unable to ask the questions because he knows Falk will answer with a lie. During the proceedings Fletcher is able to get out the question out a couple of times, but is unable to stop himself from immediately objecting to himself before Falk can answer. Fletcher is also compelled to give direct answers to questions and commands and cannot refuse. Most of these bends in the "rules" of Max's wish can be chalked up to Rule of Funny.
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Liar Liar / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Liar Liar / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Fletcher, at first. Miranda's Establishing Character Moment is to make it clear she prefers this from her workers — her second line of dialogue is "let the judge decide what's true or not, that's what he gets paid for; you get paid to win."
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Liar Liar / int_b5f97c12	type	Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears
Liar Liar / int_b5f97c12	comment	Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Mrs. Cole's children get this treatment from their caretaker when their mother's sex tape is played at the trial.
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Liar Liar / int_b73bb03d	type	DoppelgÃ¤nger Crossover
Liar Liar / int_b73bb03d	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger Crossover: Near the end of when Fletcher is being wheeled off on a stretcher, Carrey can be seen in the background playing his Fire Marshall Bill character from In Living Color!.
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Liar Liar / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Liar Liar / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: Lying is a necessary evil because Brutal Honesty can get you into trouble. Fletcher is forced to be truthful to everyone for just 24 hours, and it almost ruins his life as he tells friends and co-workers what he really thinks of them, gets into confrontations with strangers, and can't even hold a normal conversation with people without blurting out something offensive. As Fletcher puts to Max as one example, when Audrey was pregnant, she asked Fletcher if she looked fat; he said no, because saying yes would have hurt her feelings. But this is only the tip of the iceberg given everything else Fletcher has been through and all the misfortunes his honesty brings upon him in just one day.
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Liar Liar / int_be6b0200	type	Sexophone
Liar Liar / int_be6b0200	comment	Sexophone: Occurs when Fletcher's busty new neighbor is introduced.
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Liar Liar / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Liar Liar / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around:
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Liar Liar / int_c3191ad7	type	Smooch of Victory
Liar Liar / int_c3191ad7	comment	Smooch of Victory: Samantha kisses Fletcher in the courtroom after they win the case.
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Liar Liar / int_c51d3bd3	type	Nice Guys Finish Last
Liar Liar / int_c51d3bd3	comment	Nice Guys Finish Last: Jerry, although Fletcher is somewhat redeemed in Audrey's eyes via his efforts to be a better father.
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Liar Liar / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Liar Liar / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Fletcher references Ike and Tina Turner's relationship, Tina Turner's cover of Proud Mary, and Tina Turner's song and role in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
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Liar Liar / int_ca03acbc	type	Freudian Slippery Slope
Liar Liar / int_ca03acbc	comment	Freudian Slippery Slope:
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Liar Liar / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Liar Liar / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Averted with the main story, which is clearly some sort of magic, but in the epilogue Audrey and Fletcher kiss at Max's next birthday, implying that they're going to get back together. After what happened the last time he had a birthday, they're savvy enough to immediately ask if he wished for them to get back together. He says he wished for Rollerblades, but he's not under any magical compulsion to tell the truth so this may or may not be Blatant Lies. It's also possible that he did wish for his parents to fall in love again, but the wish had no actual effect, either because it was already happening or because It Only Works Once.
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Liar Liar / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Liar Liar / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth
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Liar Liar / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Liar Liar / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Right when the case seems lost, Fletcher's client makes an offhand remark about her age. This turns the case upside down. As well when Audrey tells Fletcher about what Max wished for the previous night. Although it doesn't work, Fletcher gets the idea to make it look like he was attacked in the bathroom (so as to postpone the trial) after banging his head on the wall too hard. A heartwarming one, as Fletcher is on the phone with Audrey, and states that he really does want to see Max today, then pauses and marvels to himself that he truly, honestly does want to see his son.
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Liar Liar / int_d1d4cf48	type	Cheating with the Milkman
Liar Liar / int_d1d4cf48	comment	Cheating with the Milkman: If you listen closely to the "sex tape," you can hear the man Samantha Cole is having sex with say "I have to go clean the pool."
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Liar Liar / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Liar Liar / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Greta, Fletcher's secretary.
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Liar Liar / int_d394829d	type	Frivolous Lawsuit
Liar Liar / int_d394829d	comment	Frivolous Lawsuit: Fletcher's current case isn't one (although it is fraudulent), but he isn't against taking cases like this:
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Liar Liar / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Liar Liar / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: The whole movie is one long look at this trope, as the truth curse essentially begins breaking down Fletcher's life, which up to this point has been built on lying so much that even he himself is surprised when he says things that are true ("How about that, I really do..."). By the end of the movie, Fletcher begins to grow out of this state as a result of seeing just how much damage has been done to his life through compulsive lying.
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Liar Liar / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Liar Liar / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Fletcher's immediate boss learns of his current problem and takes him to the firm's board meeting where he regretfully tells everyone the honest truth of what he thinks of them. They end up in stitches laughing, loving the no-holds barred roasting.
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Liar Liar / int_d47f35de	type	First Father Wins
Liar Liar / int_d47f35de	comment	First Father Wins: In the end, Fletcher gets his family back together.
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Liar Liar / int_d5dfb30a	type	Professional Butt-Kisser
Liar Liar / int_d5dfb30a	comment	Professional Butt-Kisser: Mr. Allen's board members out themselves as this when Fletcher insults Allen to his face. It's only when Mr. Allen starts laughing that they laugh along, despite staying noticeably silent while they awaited his reaction.
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Liar Liar / int_db15f008	type	ReallySeventeenYearsOld
Liar Liar / int_db15f008	comment	Really 17 Years Old: Fletcher discovers that Mrs. Cole lied about her age when she got married, rendering the prenuptial and the original marriage contract void, but leaving her still entitled to half her (ex)husband's wealth as they had lived together long enough to be considered common-law married anyways.
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Liar Liar / int_db212ca9	type	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
Liar Liar / int_db212ca9	comment	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: When Miranda asks Fletcher what he thought of the sex last night, he involuntarily blurts out exactly what he was thinking. Afterwards he can hardly believe he just did that: "... I've had better??"
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Liar Liar / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Liar Liar / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Fletcher in the elevator scene with his busty new neighbor.
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Liar Liar / int_e18a3c59	type	Hilarious Outtakes
Liar Liar / int_e18a3c59	comment	Hilarious Outtakes: It's a Jim Carrey movie. What else would you expect? "Mrs Cole! .... A goose!" Everything with the flip-top water pitcher, from pouring a cup and acting as if he were taking a leak, to making it talk.
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Liar Liar / int_e1ec1b15	type	Make a Wish
Liar Liar / int_e1ec1b15	comment	Make a Wish: The film's Applied Phlebotinum.
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Liar Liar / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Liar Liar / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Max's wish forces Fletcher to either be literal about almost everything, or specify that he's not being literal. For example, Fletcher calls his boss "a worthless, steaming pile of cow dung" and has to add on the tag "figuratively speaking," and when a homeless man asks Fletcher if he can spare some change, Fletcher has to answer "Yes, I could." When the homeless man asks if he will spare some, Fletcher is able to say no.
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Liar Liar / int_e4f05faa	type	Jaw Drop
Liar Liar / int_e4f05faa	comment	Jaw Drop: Fletcher when Greta flips him the bird on her way out.
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Liar Liar / int_e542b0f5	type	Geas
Liar Liar / int_e542b0f5	comment	Geas: The main character is placed under a 24 hour geas that makes it so he Cannot Tell a Lie. If he tries to say a lie, it comes out as gibberish. If he tries to write a lie, he will write the truth. He is even unable to ask a question if he knows the answer to the question is a lie.
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Liar Liar / int_e784bb8c	type	Accidental Truth
Liar Liar / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: Fletcher is forced to say the truth even when people don't know it.
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Liar Liar / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Liar Liar / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Reede, Reede, Reede. Story of his life; he finds ways to weasel out of his responsibilities and avoid punishment for his wrongdoings, and is so good at it he makes his living helping others do it. Remember, it takes Fletcher becoming physically unable to lie to understand why people would be angry at him for this kind of thing; it's his job, and the courts have found no problem with it before, so why does everyone hate him? Only when he sees an innocent man lose his children to an amoral gold-digger because of his efforts does he realize that he is using the letter of the law to subvert its spirit, and breaks down.
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Liar Liar / int_e97502d6	type	Kicking My Own Butt
Liar Liar / int_e97502d6	comment	Kicking My Own Butt: Fletcher beats himself up in the bathroom in a last-ditch effort to get the court case postponed. He lampshades it when someone walks in on him doing the act.
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Liar Liar / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Liar Liar / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Fletcher can't use them, but he can be caught by anyone else using them. As it says elsewhere on this page, not only can he not lie, but he can't even evade the truth, deceive while remaining silent, or choose not to answer. Several times he gets into trouble because he is asked a question which he could have given a better answer to if the other person had just happened to phrase it differently. However, when one of Fletcher's clients robs an ATM and asks for legal advice, Fletcher does manage to give him the perfectly valid legal advice of "STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!" When he beats himself up in the bathroom and is asked about who did it, Fletcher's means of describing himself so as to not reveal himself is not deceitful either as his trauma from circumstances legit causes himself to separate the incident from his own sane thinking and do so of himself in a way that while self-inflating doesn't make it easy for someone to figure out it was him—and not on purpose either.
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Liar Liar / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Liar Liar / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Mrs. Cole has cheated on her husband several times, it's hinted that she's not completely sure both her children are her husband's, and after Fletcher convinces her she's the victim, she becomes a complete Jerkass who uses her children for emotional gain in court. And thanks to a technicality no one saw coming, she wins the case and gets the standard divorce settlement of half her husband's assets, over 10 million dollars, and decides to sue for sole custody of the kids to get even more money in child support and deny her husband the right to them. Her getting away with all this is actually a major plot point, when Fletcher realizes it's his fault she was able to do all this and succeed.
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Liar Liar / int_ec062317	type	Penultimate Outburst
Liar Liar / int_ec062317	comment	Penultimate Outburst: After a civil trial that goes disastrously wrong because he can't tell a lie, Fletcher Reed realizes he has an out through the truth. An instant before the judge issues a ruling, Reed, amends from "I have no further witnesses" to "I call [my client] to the stand". The resulting hubbub in the courtroom is not ended by the judge's several cries for order; Reed manages to quiet them with an irritated "Knock it off!" The judge is not impressed, instructs Reed to sit down, and then:
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Liar Liar / int_edbb1357	type	List of Transgressions
Liar Liar / int_edbb1357	comment	List of Transgressions: When Fletcher is stopped after reckless driving...
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Liar Liar / int_ee9018f6	type	Origami Gag
Liar Liar / int_ee9018f6	comment	Origami Gag: The credits has a Hilarious Outtake where Jim Carrey crumples up a piece of paper and turns it into "a goose!"
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Liar Liar / int_eea06f9a	type	Artistic License â€“ Cars
Liar Liar / int_eea06f9a	comment	Artistic License â€“ Cars: When Fletcher is pulled over, he pops open his glove box to reveal unpaid parking tickets. The Mercedes SL series, including Fletcher's SL500, was not equipped with a glove box due to interior space limitations. The dashboard used was from a different model.
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Liar Liar / int_f09afb0	type	Digging Yourself Deeper
Liar Liar / int_f09afb0	comment	Digging Yourself Deeper: This is what leads to Fletcher getting slapped in the elevator.
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Liar Liar / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Liar Liar / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Pretty much any of Fletcher's pronouncements after the realization sets in, but maybe most famously: STOP BREAKIN' THE LAW, ASSHOOOOOLE!
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Liar Liar / int_f2d51908	type	Evil Hand
Liar Liar / int_f2d51908	comment	Evil Hand: In the Blue Pen scene (which is not red). Fletcher also invokes this with the "claw" routine he does to amuse his son.
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Liar Liar / int_f332d990	type	Too Much Information
Liar Liar / int_f332d990	comment	Too Much Information: When the judge asks Fletcher how he's doing this morning, Fletcher replies with, "I'm a little upset about a bad sexual episode last night." One of the reasons Fletcher doesn't want to talk to his mother on the phone:
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Liar Liar / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
Liar Liar / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Even $11 million isn't enough for Mrs. Cole. At this point, though, it may be more about punishing Mr. Cole.
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Liar Liar / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Liar Liar / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: Fletcher hurls a metric ton of verbal abuse at his boss, who finds it hilarious. He then goes all the way and insults everyone in the room, who all laugh at his insults, thinking it's a roast. It does backfire for Miranda, however. She was out for revenge after Fletcher told her, "I've had better." When she realized he was incapable of lying, she throws him in front of the committee in hopes that his Brutal Honesty would get him fired. Instead, he gets wound up insulting the committee, calls her a slut, and laughs in her face with absolutely no consequences!
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Liar Liar / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
Liar Liar / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Fletcher when trying to get home after learning Audrey is going to move. "I'm an inconsiderate prick!"
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Liar Liar / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Liar Liar / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: As a result of both the curse's literal-mindedness and Fletcher's established Amoral Attorney way of thinking. When a quitting Greta admonishes him for being the kind of lawyer that won a burglar $6,000 for injuring himself breaking into her friend's home, she asks Fletcher if that's justice, to which Fletcher emphatically says "No!", causing a surprised reaction in Greta wondering if Fletcher understood the error of his ways. Unfortunately, Fletcher follows up with a honest "I'd have got him ten [thousand]", sending Greta on her way in horror as Fletcher (truthfully) yells after her he misunderstood the question.
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Liar Liar / int_fced5df7	type	Disposable FiancÃ©
Liar Liar / int_fced5df7	comment	Disposable FiancÃ©: Jerry.
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Liar Liar / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Liar Liar / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: In the beginning of the first act, which more than once portrays Fletcher as having a complicated relationship with truth and honesty, this scene is the finishing touch:
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Liar Liar / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Liar Liar / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: When Greta bails Fletcher from jail, he ponders about starting his own firm and asks Greta if she wants to work for him. Greta, who had earlier quit over Fletcher stiffing her on a raise, quips that Fletcher couldn't afford her.
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Liar Liar / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Liar Liar / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Audrey is understandably pissed at Fletcher for weaseling her into paying to get his car out of impound, but the moment he has his Heel Realization, she can't stay mad and consoles him with the knowledge that he's not a bad father when he's there with her and Max.
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