Other Titles • Big Fat Liar • Lost and Found (2001) • Pay or Play (2001)
Synopses for Big Fat Liar (2002)
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Who's afraid of the big bad Wolf? Not Jason Shepherd (Frankie Muniz). This 14-year-old thinks on his feet and when he has to prove that sleazy Hollywood producer Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti) stole his class paper and is turning it into the blockbuster movie Big Fat Liar, he is ready for battle. Traveling to Los Angeles from his home in Michigan with his best friend Kaylee (Amanda Bynes), Jason tries to break into show business — literally. The result? Through a hilarious series of pranks and ruses, Jason brings one of Hollywood's most powerful producers to his knees.
The thing is — and it's not a good thing — Jason and Marty have something in common. Marty spends many of his waking hours dodging the truth, sometimes shading it, and often just plain lying. It's as natural to him as breathing, even a badge of honor. He gets away with it, considers it one more necessary weapon in his arsenal for surviving the fiercely competitive Hollywood trenches.
It's not pretty. It's not right. But it's another matter altogether that 14-year-old Jason is just as comfortable and just as skilled at twisting the truth. It's not that Jason wants to lie. But when he's caught in a scrape — and he often is — he invents a good story. It's that simple.
After Jason's parents and teacher catch him trying to cover up yet another misadventure, they issue an ultimatum: come up with an overdue English term paper in one day or get ready for summer school. Highly motivated, Jason feverishly writes a story called Big Fat Liar. But while he races to deliver the story to his teacher, his bicycle slams into the limousine of Hollywood producer Marty Wolf, who is in Michigan working on his latest production.
The paper literally falls into Wolf's lap, and Jason arrives at school with nothing but a very colorful excuse. This time it's true, but try telling his parents. They have lost all faith in Jason and that hurts much more than he'd ever imagined. He has no way to undo the damage until a few months later when he sees a preview for Wolf's latest movie — Big Fat Liar. Willing to do whatever it takes to restore his parents' trust, Jason decides to go to Hollywood to prove that he wasn't crying wolf. And that means a different kind of Wolf is about to meet his match.
(35 votes)
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An eighth grader named Jason (Frankie Muniz from MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE) presents elaborate excuses for never completing his class assignments. Finally his teacher catches him in one of his worst lies ever, and she threatens him with summer school if he doesn't get his assignment to her by that evening. With all that experience as a creative fibber, Jason writes a brilliant story entitled BIG FAT LIAR. With five minutes to spare, Jason races to get it to his teacher when a limousine crashes into him. The occupant, a sneaky Hollywood producer named Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti) gives Jason a ride, and Jason accidentally drops his assignment in the limo. Jason has to go to summer school and it sucks. But when he sees a preview for the movie that Marty made from the his story, he decides to exact revenge on the producer. He enlists Kaylee (Amanda Bynes), his best friend, to help him on his mission. They travel to Los Angeles and concoct a series of silly schemes to foil Marty's plans for fame and fortune with Jason's stolen story.
(30 votes)
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Get ready for big fat laughs! Featuring Hollywood's hottest teen stars, Frankie Muniz (Malcolm in the Middle) and Nickelodeon's Amanda Bynes, Big Fat Liar is the hilarious revenge comedy filled with nonstop action and laugh out loud fun!
Fourteen year old Jason Shepherd (Muniz) has a reputation for stretching the truth. So, when big time Hollywood producer Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti) steals his class paper and turns it into a smash hit movie, no one believes Jason's latest tall tale!
On a cross country adventure to set the record straight, Jason and best friend Kaylee (Bynes) devise a high tech plan to squeeze the truth out of Wolf through a series of outrageous pranks, crazy stunts and big laughs. It's payback- Big Time!
(31 votes)
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Pitting kids against grown-ups has always been a reliable source of comedy, and Big Fat Liar indulges the "smart kid vs dumb adult" fantasy with infectious enthusiasm. In this case it's Frankie Muniz from TV's Malcolm in the Middle, playing a Michigan eighth-grader whose penchant for lying results in parental scorn when he claims that a Hollywood movie mogul (ace character actor Paul Giamatti) has stolen the kid's hastily written English essay and turned it into his upcoming summer blockbuster. The kid only wants to prove his honesty and recruits his girlfriend (spunky TV star Amanda Bynes) to beat the honcho on his Hollywood turf. Elaborate practical jokes and slapstick gags turn this kid stuff (scripted and produced by two former child stars) into an enjoyable send-up of Hollywood absurdity. When combined with Giamatti's mastery of slow-burning megalomania, the show-biz in-jokes and Home Alone-style anarchy make this a harmless diversion for the young and young-at-heart. --Jeff Shannon
(30 votes)
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