Corrected entry: When Fletcher goes to pick his Mercedes Benz up after it is towed, he screams about a scratch being on the car. There is no scratch visible throughout the rest of the movie.
Liar Liar (1997)
1 commented-on entry since 4 Jan '25, 14:47
Directed by: Tom Shadyac
Starring: Jim Carrey, Cary Elwes, Jennifer Tilly, Maura Tierney, Amanda Donohoe, Anne Haney, Justin Cooper
Revealing mistake: When Fletcher is beating himself up he goes into a stall and squishes his head with a toilet seat. You can see that the white part underneath is made out of foam because it keeps squashing down.
Trivia: In the scene where Carrey is in the stretcher at the airport, if you look in the back of the crowd to the right, you will see Fire Marshall Bill from In Living Color. He can be seen when Carrey's ex-wife is speaking to the officer speaking on a walkie-talkie. (01:16:11)
Question: After Fletcher gets his son to try to unwish the "No lying" wish, he tests to see if it works. He gets slapped in the face. When his son asks "Did it work?", Fletcher says, "Not as well as I had hoped." What did he mean by that?
Answer: As you said, he was testing to see if the wish was broken--by going up to an attractive woman and talking to her. While we don't hear what happens, he apparently said something a little too "forward" to her (probably more forward than he would have done otherwise, hence the "not as well as I had hoped"), and got slapped, so he knew that he was still under the wish's effects.
But I want to know what he said to the woman.
It's deliberately made unclear what he specifically said, because him getting slapped in the face is the gag that shows the audience that he's still under the spell. If we heard what he said, then we would know right away the new wish wouldn't have worked. It's ultimately up to the viewer's imagination to decide what he told the woman.
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Correction: The Mercedes got scratched at the towyard, and you don't see Fletcher's car again for the rest of the movie.
You do see his car again before the end of the movie - he drives to the airport in it when he goes there to get Audrey and Max back before they leave for Boston.
Heather Benton ★
Yeah, but we don't see the side that was scratched.
lionhead