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'''Max Reede:''' [shrugs] }}

 

If you're looking for the [[Trope]] on extremely good liars, see [[Consummate Liar]].

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* [[Accidental Truth]]

* [[Actor Allusion]]:

* [[Cassandra Truth]]

{{quote|'''Judge Stevens:''' I'll have to hear good cause, counsel. What's the problem?

'''Judge:''' Commendable, Mr. Reed, but I'm still waiting to hear good cause; do you have one or not? }}

* [[Casting Couch]]: Fletcher sleeps with his (female, good-looking) boss in the hope that it'll help his career. His son's birthday wish takes effect at exactly the wrong time...

* [[Chewbacca Defense]]: In a cut scene.

* [[Cheating with the Milkman]]: If you listen closely to the "sex tape" you can hear the man Samantha Cole is with say "I have to go clean the pool."

* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Greta, Fletcher's secretary.

* [[Derailing Love Interests]]: Averted. Jerry is introduced as a genuinely nice and sweet man who treats Audrey and Max well, and although he doesn't care for Fletcher he's civil to him. When he realizes Fletcher still loves his family and the lengths he'll go to in order to keep them, he lets them go and just lets Audrey know he's there if she changes her mind. The only thing you could really say about him is that he's a bit of a goofball, which Audrey admits he can be sometimes.

* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: "... ''I've had better??''"

* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]

* [[Divorce Is Temporary]]: Fletcher and Audrey get back together in the final scene. They of course ask their son if he made another birthday wish to cause it.

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Fletcher when trying to get home after learning Audrey is going to move. "I'm an inconsiderate prick!"

* [[Evil Lawyer Joke]]: The page quote. And, indeed, the whole film.

* [[Exact Words]]: Fletcher can't use them, but he can be caught by anyone ''else'' using them. As it says elsewhere on this page, not only can he not lie, but he can't even evade the truth, deceive while remaining silent or choose not to answer. Several times he gets into trouble because he is asked a question which he could have given a better answer to if the other person had just happened to phrase it differently.

** Best example: "Is that justice?!"

* [[Face Fault]]: Only [[Jim Carrey]] can get away with doing one and make it look funny.

* [[First Father Wins]]

* [[Flipping the Bird]]: "Here's your raise!"

* [[Frivolous Lawsuit]]: Fletcher's current case isn't one (although it is fraudulent), but he isn't against taking cases like this:

{{quote|'''Greta:''' Mr. Reede, several years ago a friend of mine had a burglar on her roof, a burglar. He fell through the kitchen skylight, landed on a cutting board, on a butcher's knife, cutting his leg. The burglar sued my friend, he sued my friend. And because of guys like you ''he won''. My friend had to pay the burglar $6,000. Is that justice?

'''Fletcher:''' No! [[[Beat]]] I'd have got him ten. }}

* [[Gag Boobs]]: Fletcher's interactions with his new neighbour, played by Krista Allen, who is best known for the ''Emmanuelle In Space'' series. And of course, Mrs. Cole being played by Jennifer Tilly doesn't hurt...

* [[Gold Digger]]

* [[Head Desk]]

Fletcher: "You would!"

Appleton: "''[[Chewing the Scenery|Overactor!]]''" }}

* [[Ignoring by Singing]]: Fletcher knows he is cursed to speak the truth when answering a question, but not if he can't hear the question!

* [[The Immodest Orgasm]]: Mrs Cole, revealed by her "sex tape".

* [[Humiliation Conga|Insult To Injury]]: A passerby giving Fletcher money as he sags despondently on the courthouse steps following his self-inflicted beatdown.

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: {{spoiler|Jerry lets Audrey stay in LA so Max doesn't have to be away from his father.}}

{{quote|'''Swoosie Kurtz''': Your Honor, I object!

'''Carrey''': You would!

'''Greta:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|Yeah, those've been going around.]] }}

* [[Make a Wish]]: The film's [[Applied Phlebotinum]].

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Pretty much any of Fletcher's pronouncements after the realization sets in, but maybe most famously: '''[[Memetic Mutation|STOP BREAKIN' THE LAW, ASSHOOOOOLE!]]'''

* [[Off on a Technicality]]: {{spoiler|How Fletcher wins the trial. He even cites it.}}

* [[Organ Autonomy]]: THE CLAW!

* [[Principles Zealot]]: Essentially, this is the result of the wish--Fletcher is an unwilling zealot, admittedly, but his behavior matches a classic comedic [[Principles Zealot]] pretty closely.

* [[Race For Your Love]]: Interesting version - it's a father's love for his son that's being raced for here.

* [[Really Gets Around]]:

* [[Spit Take]]: Reede does a rather ''epic'' one right before his [[That Was Objectionable]] moment.

* [[Stealth Insult]]: See [[Sarcastic Confession]].

* [[That Was Objectionable]]:

{{quote|'''Fletcher''': Your honor, I object!

'''Judge''': And why is that, Mr. Reede?

'''Fletcher''': Because it's devastating to my case!

'''Fletcher''': [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Good call]]! }}

* [[Tongue-Tied]]

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[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]