Year: 1980
Runtime: 105 mins
Language: English
Director: Larry Peerce
Cletus, a self‑described ‘fabricator’, works as a social worker and is assigned the case of Jorge, a boy taken from his mother. To reunite them, Cletus weaves falsehoods to keep Jorge from being adopted. In the search, he meets a women's advice counsellor and unexpectedly falls for her, complicating his deceptions.
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