| Director | Maurice Phillips |
|---|---|
| Budget | $17 million |
| Box office | $2.9 million |
Con man Eddie Dash, required to complete community service for past crimes, reluctantly chooses the easiest assignment: accompanying mental patient and reformed pathological liar George as he adjusts to life outside the sanitarium. Although George quickly assumes Eddie is his best friend, Eddie attempts to ditch him at a museum. Panicked, George runs outside and knocks over Al Sandro, who mistakes him for millionaire brewery heir Abe Fielding, missing for five months. Al arranges to meet George at a café to pay a large debt owed to Abe. Sensing an opportunity, Eddie convinces George to go along with the ruse. At the café, staff and patrons also recognize George as Abe. Forced to maintain the deception, George spins elaborate stories about his supposed disappearance.
Outside, George is confronted by Abe's wife, Elaine, who brings him to their mansion. Despite George's attempts to admit the truth, Elaine remains convinced he is Abe. The next morning, Eddie arrives to collect George, praising his lying skills, but George regrets deceiving Elaine, to whom he is attracted. Abe's business manager, Rupert Dibbs, appears with cash and a credit card for 'Abe', which Eddie promptly pockets before leaving. Overwhelmed without Eddie's support, George panics and returns to the sanitarium.
Meanwhile, Elaine is revealed to be actress Mimi Kravitz, hired by Rupert, along with other paid actors, to convince George he is Abe. Rupert, who expected to inherit the brewery after Abe Fielding Sr.'s death, discovered that Abe Sr. had an illegitimate son, now deceased. To stall probate and secure the brewery for himself, Rupert plots to pass George off as the heir. He even pays Eddie to participate.
Eddie brings George back to the mansion, where George tries to win Elaine's affection. Moved by his sincerity, Elaine begins to regret deceiving him. George serenades her with a yodeling performance at an Austrian restaurant, and they grow closer, eventually spending the night together.
At Rupert's urging, Eddie and Elaine escort George to doctors and a dentist to create false medical records. Overhearing a discussion about identifying bodies through dental records, they realize Rupert plans to murder George to claim the brewery. Rupert dismisses Elaine's concerns and secretly offers Eddie a large sum to kill George. During a hunting trip, Rupert eavesdrops on Eddie and George through a remote device. Instead of hunting, George warns animals to flee, but the pair are soon confronted by a bear. Panicked, Eddie fires his gun, seemingly killing George.
At the funeral, Eddie delivers an impromptu eulogy, only for George to reappear, revealing they faked his death. Eddie announces he has recorded Rupert's incriminating conversations, exposing his murder plot. Rupert tries to unmask George as an imposter, but his own hired actors maintain the deception. Enraged that George will inherit the brewery, Rupert attacks him, but is subdued by Eddie and Elaine and taken into custody.
Rupert warns George that living a lie will consume him. In response, George confesses his real identity to the crowd, but they dismiss it as a joke, leaving him in control of the brewery with Eddie and Elaine by his side.
Sometime later, George and Elaine celebrate their wedding on a tropical beach with Eddie and his girlfriend Gloria, Rupert's former secretary.