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September 1982 (USA) moreTagline:
They were hopelessly in love... morePlot Keywords:
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Lying Leads To Dying moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Matt Dillon | ... | Jack Duncan |
 | Cindy Fisher | ... | Ginny Peterson |
 | Hoyt Axton | ... | Cecil Duncan |
 | Margaret Blye | ... | Ellen 'Babs' Duncan (as Maggie Blye) |
 | Broderick Crawford | ... | Colonel Tubman |
| Christopher Connelly | ... | Alex Peterson |
| Molly McCarthy | ... | Connie Peterson |
| Tiffany Stettner | ... | Lisa Peterson |
 | Yvonne De Carlo | ... | Jeanene Dubois |
| Susan Tyrrell | ... | Lora Mae Bouvier |
| Jim Greenleaf | ... | Mike Miller |
| Mark Atkins | ... | Bobby Adams |
 | Tonja Walker | ... | Karen Covucci |
| Richard Moll | ... | Det. Roy Logan |
| David Underwood | ... | Richard Thompson |
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Liar's Moon is a coming of age film set in the early Fifties of the Truman administration in rural East Texas. In a role that bares a small resemblance to Cybill Shepherd's in The Last Picture Show, Cindy Fisher is the daughter of the wealthiest man in town, Christopher Connelly and Molly McCarthy.
For reasons he won't articulate Connelly takes an unreasoning dislike to dirt poor farm boy Matt Dillon whose parents, Hoyt Axton and Margaret Blye are so far the opposite side of the tracks they're in another zip-code. Still the two young people feel a strong attraction for each other and run off to elope in Louisiana. That drives Connelly into a rage. But it turns out a lie about a past indiscretion told Connelly by McCarthy sets in motion a horrific tragedy.
The young leads Dillon and Fisher are perfectly cast in this film about more innocent times. Oddly enough the innocence of those times also contributes to the tragic climax of Liar's Moon.
Also in the cast are two Hollywood veterans in small roles, Broderick Crawford as Fisher's grandfather and Yvonne DeCarlo as the proprietress of a motel the two young people elope to.
But it's the playing of Fisher and Dillon as a Texas version of Romeo and Juliet that really drives this very neglected and underrated film.