Compare to ALL OF ME (1984)

Rating: Null/10 (22 March 2002)

SPOILERS FOR -LIAR, LIAR- AND -ALL OF ME- (1984).
While I have tremendous admiration for Carrey's work in LIAR, LIAR, the courtroom scenes have more than slight similarities to Steve Martin's ALL OF ME (1984): both feature lawyers who "must" tell the
truth (Martin because half of his body has been taken over by Lily Tomlin's disembodied spirit and she is a habitual truth-teller) in a divorce case that could make or break their careers.
Martin's work in ALL OF ME won, I believe, the New York Film Critics' award for Best Actor but of course the AMPAS totally ignored him when Oscar time came.