Tom Shadyac is one of the most interesting and least appreciated Christian filmmakers in Hollywood. And I can't figure out why basically no one in the Christian community knows this. Liar Liar was an great moral portrait of a man bereft of the ability to break the ninth commandment, not to mention side-splitingly funny with Jim Carrey giving a tour de force performance of the stricken lawyer. Shadyac and Carrey's most recent joint venture, Bruce Almighty, was one of the most attractive and insightful portrayals of God in the last decade of film.
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