Why Would I Lie? (1980)

Name: Why Would I Lie?
Director: Larry Peerce
Released: 1980-08-10
Duration: 105 min

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Title: Why Would I Lie?

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Cast: Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Gabriel Macht, Susan Heldfond, Anne Byrne Hoffman, Valerie Curtin, Jocelyn Brando, Nicolas Coster, Severn Darden, Sonny Carl Davis, Jane Burkett, Kay Cummings, Mia Bendixsen, Ilene Kristen, Harriet Gibson, Cynthia Hoppenfeld, Mitzi Hoag, Natalie Core, Shirley Slater, Elizabeth Kerr, Michael Shane, Eric Haims

Release: 1980-08-10

Runtime: 105

Plot: 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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