Earlier than ‘Sonic the Hedgehog,’ Jim Carrey Could not Inform a Lie in This Riotous Comedy Now Streaming on Prime Video

Earlier than Jim Carrey was zipping round because the mustachioed Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog, he was caught in an internet of his personal honesty within the 1997 chortle riot Liar Liar, now streaming on Prime Video, and actually, it may be the most Jim Carrey that Jim Carrey has ever been. Directed by Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura), Liar Liar stars Carrey as Fletcher Reede, a morally bankrupt lawyer who makes use of lies the best way most of us use oxygen. However when his fed-up son Max (Justin Cooper) makes a birthday want that his dad can’t inform a lie for twenty-four hours, Carrey is in an entire world of bother, in what may be one of his most quotable movies alongside Dumb and Dumber.

Outdoors of Carrey and Cooper, the solid additionally contains Maura Tierney as Audrey, Fletcher’s ex-wife, Cary Elwes as Jerry, Audrey’s overly good new boyfriend, Jennifer Tilly because the hilariously scheming Samantha Cole, Fletcher’s consumer with a dodgy case, and Anne Haney as Greta, Fletcher’s long-suffering assistant who will get a front-row seat to his complete emotional collapse.

Was ‘Liar Liar’ Profitable?

Liar Liar was a field workplace smash, grossing over $302 million worldwide on a $45 million price range. The movie additionally earned Carrey a Golden Globe nomination for Finest Actor in a Comedy or Musical, presumably for the actual fact he spends a whole 90 minutes together with his face fabricated from rubber and elastic, or the actual fact he spends a full scene beating himself up in a rest room to attempt to keep away from getting out of court docket.

Talking of that scene, Carrey — talking in an interview to advertise the film on the time with Bobbie Wygant — revealed that the toilet scene was meant to be much more “demented” earlier than it was reined in.

“We went into the scene and I feel the script says one thing like ‘he beats himself up’ [laughs] so we simply went into that room a few week earlier than and seemed round and I believed, I must slam my head into the bathroom and we performed with it and got here up with bodily bits. There was much more to it, really, but it surely simply received demented [laughs]. That was a sooner or later shoot, that was a sooner or later shoot I feel, and it was painful, it was actually painful! I went dwelling and needed to depend my bruises.”

Liar Liar is on Prime Video now.