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Compulsive Liar (2019)

Compulsive Liar poster
Original title
Menteur
Directed by
Émile Gaudreault
Genre
comedy film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 51m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 30 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man lies constantly to his family. After he denies being a liar, he wakes up in a world where all his lies are true. He must fix his lies with his brother to return things to normal.

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What happens

Compulsive Liar (French: Menteur) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Émile Gaudreault and released in 2019. The film stars Louis-José Houde as Simon, a man who is confronted by his family about his lifelong habit of being a compulsive liar, and denies it; but he then wakes up the next day in an alternate reality in which all of his past lies have become the truth, forcing him to correct all of his lies with the help of his brother Phil (Antoine Bertrand) in order to reset everything back to normal. The cast also includes Véronique Le Flaguais, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Geneviève Schmidt, Catherine Chabot, Denise Filiatrault, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Luc Senay and Sonia Vachon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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