2002 · family · comedy · adventure
Big Fat Liar
Directed by Shawn Levy1h 28m2002
After 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!
Our read: Big Fat Liar (2002) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded family · comedy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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“You want harmless kid revenge caper energy with early-2000s slapstick.”
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