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  1. Deceiver (UK title: Liar) is a 1997 American mystery film directed by Jonas Pate and Josh Pate, and starring Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Michael Rooker, Rosanna Arquette, Ellen Burstyn and Renée Zellweger. It won Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay at the 1997 Stockholm Film Festival, and the Special Jury Prize at the 1998 Cognac Police Film ...

  2. Jan 30, 1998 · Deceiver: Directed by Jonas Pate, Josh Pate. With Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Michael Rooker, Renée Zellweger. A hooker is found cut in two. Two cops give polygraph tests to the only suspect, James Wayland (Tim Roth), an unstable genius. After some time, the roles change.

    • (7K)
    • Crime, Drama, Mystery
    • Jonas Pate, Josh Pate
    • 1998-01-30
  3. As Tim Roth, playing a brilliant, rich, alcoholic epileptic accused of murder, remarks to one of his police interrogators, "Those mind games never quite live up to one's...

  4. The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man.

  5. Circumstantial evidence has tied Princeton-educated, textile company heir Walter Wayland to the murder of a prostitute named Elizabeth whose body was found cut in two at a local park.

    • Jonas Pate, Josh Pate
    • J C Quinn
  6. The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man.

    • 106 min
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  8. The three main characters, the suspect (Tim Roth) and the two cops are rotten to the core; in fact every character in this movie is rotten except for the prostitute/victim (Zellweger) who's an amiable dunce. A young woman has been murdered.