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Why Would I Lie? (1980)
Directed by Larry Peerce
Overview
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.
Rated PG | Length 105 minutes
Actors
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