Big Fat Liar
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.
Plot
Jason Shepherd is a 14-year-old compulsive liar living in the town of Greenbury, Michigan who tries to lie his way out of a creative writing assignment, but gets caught by his English teacher, who alerts his parents. He is given three hours to submit his essay and avoid repeating English in summer school. Inspired by his talent for lying, Jason writes a story titled "Big Fat Liar". While riding his sister's old bike to turn in the essay, Jason is accidentally run over by the limousine of an arrogant Hollywood screenwriter and producer, Marty Wolf, and he convinces Marty to give him a ride. Marty, also a compulsive liar, is in town shooting his film Whitaker and Fowl. In a rush, Jason accidentally leaves his essay in the limo when it falls out of his backpack. Inspired, Marty keeps the story for himself. Realizing his essay is missing, Jason tries to explain what happened, but he is sent to summer school.
More details
| author | Brian Robbins Dan Schneider |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Los Angeles Michigan |
| director | Shawn Levy |
| editor | Kimberly Ray Stuart Pappé |
| genre | adventure comedy |
| keywords | abuse best friend birthday party build compulsive liar english teacher film monster truck morning new job rid shoot struggling actor summer school swimming pool teach write |
| musicBy | Christophe Beck |
| producer | Brian Robbins Mike Tollin |
| productionCompany | Tollin/Robbins Productions |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| recordedAt | Los Angeles |
| theme | filmmaking screwball comedy spy comedy |