Big Fat Liar (2002)

Directed by

Shawn Levy

Genre

comedy film

Country

Germany, United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 893 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

14-year-old Jason writes a story called Big Fat Liar for a school assignment. A slick Hollywood producer steals the story and plans to turn it into a movie. Jason and his best friend Kaylee travel to Los Angeles to get the story back and teach the producer a lesson.

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What happens

Big Fat Liar is a 2002 American teen comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, and written by Dan Schneider from a story by Schneider and Brian Robbins. It stars Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti and Amanda Bynes, with a supporting cast featuring Amanda Detmer, Donald Faison, Lee Majors and Russell Hornsby. The plot, alluding to Aesop's Fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf, follows a 14-year-old boy (Muniz) whose creative writing assignment "Big Fat Liar" is stolen by an arrogant Hollywood producer (Giamatti) who plans to use it to make the fictional film of the same name. It was released in the United States on February 8, 2002 by Universal Pictures to mixed to negative reviews from critics while grossing $53 million worldwide against a $15 million budget. It was followed by a direct-to-video sequel, titled Bigger Fatter Liar, in 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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