Why Would I Lie?
Movie
6.0 (1)
1980
Comedy
Drama
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.
Production:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Cast

Treat Williams
Cletus

Lisa Eichhorn
Kay

Gabriel Macht
Jeorge
Susan Heldfond
Amy

Anne Byrne Hoffman
Faith

Valerie Curtin
Mrs. Bok

Jocelyn Brando
Mrs. Crumpe

Nicolas Coster
Walter

Severn Darden
Dr. Barbour

Sonny Carl Davis
Paul
Jane Burkett
Natalie
Kay Cummings
Edith
Mia Bendixsen
Thelma

Ilene Kristen
Waitress
Harriet Gibson
Mary Kalinsky
Cynthia Hoppenfeld
Opel McCarthy