‘Big Fat Liar’
One day, the Academy will have to reckon with the fact that Big Fat Liar was snubbed at the 2003 Oscars. The teen comedy — which, for reasons I simply cannot understand, received zero Oscar nominations — stars Frankie Muniz as Jason Shepherd, a 14-year-old pathological liar who turns his lived experience into a summer school essay. When his essay is stolen by self-obsessed Hollywood producer Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti), who plans to turn the story into a movie, Jason recruits his best friend Kaylee (THEE Amanda Bynes) to recover what’s rightfully his. You’ll never look at blue dye the same way again.