Tailor-made Carrey vehicle provides gut-busting laughs

Rating: Null/10 (11 April 2003)

LIAR LIAR (1997) ***1/2 Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Donohoe, Cary Elwes, Cheri Otari,Krista Allen.. Frenetically funny high concept comedy with Carrey cast as a chronic lying lawyer who finds himself under the spell of his 5 year old son's birthday wish for him to tell the truth for 24 hours with some truly inspired slapstick and painfully truthful one-liners. Tailor made for the elastic spastic talents of our boy Jim and finely attuned nuanced direction by Tom Shadyac.