Movies Like Liar Liar
If you liked Liar Liar (1997), a comedy and fantasy movie directed by Tom Shadyac, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
★ 7.5/10Also fantasy and comedyToon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and…
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Switching Channels (1988)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyA television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
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I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)
★ 6/10Also comedyEstranged from his father, college student Jake is lured home to New York for Christmas with the promise of receiving a classic Porsche as a gift. When the bullying football team dumps him in the desert in a Santa…
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Disenchanted (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and fantasyDisillusioned with life in the city, feeling out of place in suburbia, and frustrated that her happily ever after hasn’t been so easy to find, Giselle turns to the magic of Andalasia for help. Accidentally transforming…
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In Your Dreams (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and fantasyStevie and her little brother Elliot journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the Sandman to grant them the perfect family.
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Are We Done Yet? (2007)
★ 5.8/10Also comedyNewlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor with a bizarre approach to business.
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The Addams Family (1991)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and fantasyWhen a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to…
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Elf (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and fantasyWhen young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging…
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She-Devil (1989)
★ 6/10Also comedyA cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
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St. Vincent (2014)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyA young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
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My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
★ 5.8/10Also comedyTrying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young…
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Daddy Day Care (2003)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyTwo men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyAlexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister…
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Ferdinand (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyFerdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament…
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Sons of the Desert (1933)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyOllie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
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The Big Wedding (2013)
★ 5.8/10Also comedyTo the amusement of their adult children and friends, long-divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative Catholic…
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The Front Page (1974)
★ 7.3/10Also comedyRuthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.
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Jingle All the Way (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyHoward Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of…
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The Fortune Cookie (1966)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyTV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law Willie Gingrich enters the picture, and convinces Harry to overstate…
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Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyFather and stepfather Dusty and Brad join forces to make Christmastime perfect for the children. Their newfound partnership soon gets put to the test when Dusty's old-school, macho dad and Brad's gentle father arrive…