Before ‘Sonic the Hedgehog,’ Jim Carrey Couldn’t Tell a Lie in This Riotous Comedy Now Streaming on Prime Video

Earlier than Jim Carrey was zipping round because the mustachioed Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog, he was caught in an internet of his personal honesty within the 1997 chuckle riot Liar Liar, now streaming on Prime Video, and truthfully, it is perhaps essentially the most Jim Carrey that Jim Carrey has ever been. Directed by Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura), Liar Liar stars Carrey as Fletcher Reede, a morally bankrupt lawyer who makes use of lies the way in which most of us use oxygen. However when his fed-up son Max (Justin Cooper) makes a birthday want that his dad can’t inform a lie for twenty-four hours, Carrey is in an entire world of bother, in what is perhaps one in every of his most quotable films alongside Dumb and Dumber.

Outdoors of Carrey and Cooper, the forged additionally contains Maura Tierney as Audrey, Fletcher’s ex-wife, Cary Elwes as Jerry, Audrey’s overly good new boyfriend, Jennifer Tilly because the hilariously scheming Samantha Cole, Fletcher’s consumer with a dodgy case, and Anne Haney as Greta, Fletcher’s long-suffering assistant who will get a front-row seat to his whole emotional collapse.

Was ‘Liar Liar’ Profitable?

Liar Liar was a field workplace smash, grossing over $302 million worldwide on a $45 million price range. The movie additionally earned Carrey a Golden Globe nomination for Greatest Actor in a Comedy or Musical, presumably for the very fact he spends a complete 90 minutes together with his face fabricated from rubber and elastic, or the very fact he spends a full scene beating himself up in a rest room to attempt to keep away from getting out of courtroom.

Talking of that scene, Carrey — talking in an interview to advertise the film on the time with Bobbie Wygant — revealed that the toilet scene was meant to be much more “demented” earlier than it was reined in.

“We went into the scene and I feel the script says one thing like ‘he beats himself up’ [laughs] so we simply went into that room a few week earlier than and seemed round and I believed, I have to slam my head into the bathroom and we performed with it and got here up with bodily bits. There was much more to it, truly, however it simply bought demented [laughs]. That was a at some point shoot, that was a at some point shoot I feel, and it was painful, it was actually painful! I went house and needed to depend my bruises.”

Liar Liar is on Prime Video now.

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Fletcher Reede, a lawyer whose success is constructed on his capability to lie convincingly, is all of the sudden compelled to face the reality when his son Max needs that he couldn’t lie for at some point. The want comes true, and Fletcher finds himself unable to inform even the smallest fib. This incapability to lie comes on the worst attainable time, as he’s in the midst of an vital courtroom case and struggling to restore his relationship with Max and his ex-wife, Audrey.

Director

Tom Shadyac

Runtime

86 Minutes

Writers

Paul Guay