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5.9After one of his class papers is stolen and turned into a movie, a young student and his best friend exact a hilarious, slapstick revenge on the Hollywood hot shot who has taken credit!
Cast
- Frankie Muniz as Jason Shepherd
- Paul Giamatti as Marty Wolf
- Amanda Bynes as Kaylee
- Amanda Detmer as Monty Kirkham
- Sandra Oh as Mrs. Caldwell
- Russell Hornsby as Marcus Duncan
Themes
- right and justice
- screenplay
- movie business
- liar
- revenge
- prank
- teen movie
- hollywood
- intellectual property
- amused
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Ratings
IMDb
5.5/10
41,927 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
45%
Metacritic
36/100
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Comedy, Family
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Shawn Levy
- Screenplay by
- Dan Schneider
- Story by
- Dan Schneider Brian Robbins
- Produced by
- Brian Robbins Mike Tollin
- Starring
- Frankie Muniz Paul Giamatti Amanda Bynes Amanda Detmer Donald Faison Lee Majors
- Cinematography
- Jonathan Brown
- Edited by
- Stuart Pappé Kimberly Ray
- Music by
- Christophe Beck
- Production company
- Tollin/Robbins Productions
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release date
- February 8, 2002 ( 2002-02-08 )
- Running time
- 88 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $15 million
- Box office
- $53 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Big Fat Liar | Universal Pictures At Home
Fourteen-year-old Jason Shepherd has a reputation for stretching the truth. So, when big-time Hollywood producer Marty Wolf 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 devise a high-tech plan to squeeze the truth out of Wolf. © 2002 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Big Fat Liar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.