Why Would I Lie?

Movie
TitleWhy Would I Lie?
User score

6

Release dateAug 10, 1980
GenreComedy, Drama
DirectorLarry Peerce
Production countryUnited States of America
Production companiesMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Budget$4,500,000
Revenue$1,175,855
Run time105 min.

Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy called Jorge (with a 'J') who was taken from his mother. Cletus sets out to reunite Jorge with his mother, but to do so he has to fabricate many a story to keep Jorge from being adopted. In search of the mother, Cletus meets and falls in love with a women's advice councillor.

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