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SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Why Would I Lie?

1980 · Larry Peerce · Pancho Kohner · 1 hr 45 min

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 Jorge with his mother, but to do this, he must fabricate many a story to keep Jeorge from being adopted. In search of the mother, Cletus meets and falls in love with a women's-advice counselor.

Comedy Drama
Cast Salaries

Cast Salaries

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Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Treat Williams 1980 $388,877 $1,519,169 (est)
Lisa Eichhorn 1980 $110,943 $433,405 (est)
Gabriel Macht 1980 $315,000 $1,230,564 (est)
Susan Heldfond 1980 $68,704 $268,396 (est)
Anne Byrne 1980 $105,747 $413,106 (est)
Valerie Curtin 1980 $46,376 $181,170 (est)
Jocelyn Brando 1980 $46,436 $181,405 (est)
Nicolas Coster 1980 $42,292 $165,216 (est)
Severn Darden 1980 $51,114 $199,680 (est)
Sonny Davis 1980 $36,176 $141,323 (est)
Box Office

Box Office Reported grosses are direct imports. Inflation-adjusted values use imported adjusted totals when available, otherwise they use the yearly U.S. CPI table you maintain in WordPress.

Inflation-adjusted values are shown in 2025 dollars when CPI data is available.

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Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Domestic Domestic theatrical box office gross. 1980 $1,175,855 $4,593,540
International International theatrical box office gross. 1980 $0 $0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 1980 $1,175,855 $4,476,526
Earnings / Profitability

Earnings / Profitability

Estimated revenues and expenses for films based on currently imported reported and estimated fields. Inflation-adjusted values use the CPI table when direct adjusted values are not present in the export.

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Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Revenues
Theatrical Net Revenue Estimated distributor theatrical revenue using the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1980 $529,135 (est) $2,067,093 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1980 $0 $0
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1980 $0 $0
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1980 $23,598 $92,187
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: VHS $8,134 1980 $8,134 $31,775
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1980 $321,256 (est) $1,255,005 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1980 $882,123 $3,446,060
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 1980 $4,500,000 $17,131,675
Print & Advertising (P&A) P&A Estimated using Machine Learning sourceSource: ML P&A estimate (peer+ridge)Machine-learned P&A estimate based on peer comps and regression inputs. Reestimate Prior Estimate | Covid Mult: 1 | Peer Count: 0 | Reg Box Pred: $806,335 | Reg Main Pred: $1,010,669 1980 $863,000 (est) $3,371,356 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1980 $0 (est) $0 (est)
Residuals Residual and related distribution expense line. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1980 $14,555 (est) $56,860 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1980 $495,000 (est) $1,933,744 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1980 $5,872,555 $22,493,634
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 1980 $-4,990,432 $-19,047,574
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