Why Would I Lie (1980)

Cletus is a compulsive liar He prefers the term fabrication to lie though When Cletus becomes a social worker hes assigned the case of a boy called Jorge with a J who was taken from his mother Cletus sets out to reunite Jorge with his mother but to do so he has to fabricate many a story to keep Jorge from being adopted In search of the mother Cletus meets and falls in love with a womens advice councillor