Why Would I Lie? (1980)

Summary: Cletus is a compulsive liar, though he prefers the term 'fabrication' to 'lie.' When he becomes a social worker, he's assigned the case of a boy named Jeorge (with a 'J') who was taken from his mother. Cletus sets out to reunite J...

Release Date: August 08, 1980

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Larry Peerce

Writers: Hollis Hodges

, Peter Stone

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), United Artists

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,500,000

Domestic: $ 1,175,855

Manhattan (1979)

Summary: The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Release Date: April 25, 1979

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Woody Allen

Writers: Woody Allen

, Marshall Brickman

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: G

Production: Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 39,946,780

International: $ 247,287

Papillon (1973)

Summary: A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Release Date: December 19, 1973

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner