Truth, Lies, Lawyers and Film

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"Two recent comedy films explore the same essential theme--the importance of telling the truth--though they do so in very different ways. As it happens, both films also feature characters who are lawyers. "Liar Liar"'s main character is a lawyer who embodies the stereotype of the lawyer who is unable to tell the truth and who can lie with great facility because he has been trained to do just that. He is on the verge of achieving great success and becoming a partner in his firm precisely because he is able to lie with such abandon. One of the principle characters in Trial and Error is also a lawyer who in this case has just made partner in his firm, but he is a man with scruples far exceeding those of the head of that firm, leaving the viewer to wonder how he did make partner without compromising himself. He is now faced with a situation which forces him to lie..."

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