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''Big Fat Liar'' is a 2002 American teen comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, written and produced by Dan Schneider and Brian Robbins with music by Christophe Beck and starring Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, and Amanda Bynes. The film involves a 14-year-old pathological liar named Jason Shepherd (Muniz), whose creative writing assignment is stolen by an arrogant Hollywood producer named Marty Wolf (Giamatti), who plans to use it to make the fictional film of the same name. The film was released on February 8, 2002 by Universal Pictures. The film earned $53 million on a $15 million budget. ==Plot== Jason Shepherd is a 14-year-old chronic liar living in the fictional town of Greenbury, Michigan who is constantly deceiving and misleading his way out of trouble. Jason tries to get out of writing his 1000 word essay by making up a lie, but he gets caught by his English teacher, Ms. Phyllis Caldwell, who alerts his parents, Harry and Carol Shepherd. Jason is given three hours to submit his paper, otherwise he will fail English and go to summer school. In a rush to turn in his paper, Jason accidentally forgets his report in a limousine of Hollywood producer Marty Wolf, who gives him a ride to the community college to turn in his paper after Jason is hit by the limo. Wolf initially attempts to give the essay back to Jason, but when Wolf sees that Jason's story is excellent, it inspires him, and he decides to keep it for himself. Jason realizes his paper is missing and tries to explain what happened when he met Marty Wolf, but neither his parents, or his Literature teacher, Ms. Caldwell, believe him, and he is sent to summer school. Later, after a horrible and disgusting first day at summer school, Jason and his best friend, Kaylee, go to see a movie, and upon watching the previews, they find out that Wolf has plagiarized Jason's composition homework and is turning it into a film. Jason and Kaylee fly to Los Angeles to confront Wolf, as Jason is determined to convince his parents that he truly wrote his English paper. Upon their arrival, Jason and Kaylee trick limo driver and struggling actor Frank Jackson into giving them a ride to Wolf's studio, where Jason creates a distraction, with help from Kaylee, that tricks its receptionist, Astrid Barker, into letting him speak with Wolf in his office. Jason sneaks into Wolf's office to convince him to call his father and tell him that he stole the story, but instead Wolf "accidentally" burns Jason's paper and removes him and Kaylee from his office. Angered, Jason and Kaylee plan to inconvenience Wolf until he admits to having stolen ''Big Fat Liar''. Frank, having discovered their true identities, joins them in their plan, as he has had a troubled history with Wolf. After gathering information about Wolf's cruel and abusive treatment of his employees, Jason and Kaylee sabotage Wolf by going as far as mixing blue dye in his pool and orange food colouring in his shampoo, sending him to a child's birthday party where he is mistaken for a clown and beaten up by the young party-goers, and modifying the controls to his car. Their tampering with Wolf's car causes numerous controls to perform the incorrect function, such as the brake pedal sounding the horn and the radio playing Blue (Da Ba Dee) as a way of mocking his blue skin. Struggling to control his convertible, Wolf stops just behind a monster truck, but is later rear ended by an old lady, whom he had insulted earlier. Wolf accidentally crashes into the monster truck, causing its driver, a wrestler known as "The Masher", to destroy Wolf's car in anger. These pranks cause Wolf to miss his appointment with his boss and the president of Universal Pictures, Marcus "Marc" Duncan. After another fictional film produced by Wolf, ''Whitaker and Fowl'', proves to be a critical and box-office failure, Duncan loses confidence in Wolf and threatens to pull production for ''Big Fat Liar''. Jason approaches Wolf and agrees to help him in exchange for his confession to having stolen the story. Guided by Jason, Wolf makes a successful presentation which convinces Duncan's wife, Shandra (Chris Ott), to green-light ''Big Fat Liar'', but Duncan warns Wolf that any mistakes will cause Universal to pull funding for it and end his career. However, Wolf betrays Jason again and kicks him and Kaylee out from their hiding place in a warehouse of Universal Studios. Wolf's assistant, Monty Kirkham, grows tired of being bossed around and abused by Wolf, and decides to help Jason and Kaylee to expose him. Jason and Kaylee rally all of Wolf's employees and devise a plan to stop him once and for all. As Wolf heads to the studio to begin shooting, many of his employees cause him to be late through multiple mishaps. As Wolf finally arrives to the studio, he witnesses Jason kidnapping his stuffed monkey, Mr. Funny-Bones. After a chase across the studio, Wolf childishly and prematurely celebrates his supposed victory, mocking Jason and telling him that he will never tell the truth. However, he also admits that he stole Jason's story, thinking that he will still get away with it. Much to Wolf's dismay, the altercation is caught on twelve different cameras and is witnessed by many people including Wolf's employees, the news media, Jason's parents, and Duncan. Disgusted that Wolf would steal a story from a young boy, Duncan immediately fires him from Universal due to his acts of plagiarism and dishonesty. Jason thanks Wolf for teaching him the importance of telling the truth. After escaping from Wolf and reuniting with his parents, Jason finally re-establishes his trust with them. In the epilogue, Universal later reproduces ''Big Fat Liar'', utilizing the talents and skills of all those whom Wolf had abused, and the film is released in theaters, with Jason being credited during the closing credits for having written the original story. Meanwhile, Wolf, having been stripped of his career, declares bankruptcy and begins his new job as a birthday clown. Unfortunately (from Wolf), he is recognised by the Masher, who orders his son, Darren, the birthday boy, to show Wolf his "nutcracker" manoeuvre. Wolf screams in horror as Darren charges at him and kicks his crotch, causing him to groan in pain as the film ends. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Fat Liar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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