The Ugly Truth (2009)
Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl, Eric Winter
Abby Richter is a romantically challenged morning show producer whose search for Mr. Perfect has left her hopelessly single. She's in for a rude awakening when her bosses team her with Mike Chadway, a hardcore TV personality who promises to spill the ugly truth on what makes men and women tick.
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R, 1 hr. 36 min.
Directed by:
Robert Luketic
Release Date: Jul 24, 2009
DVD Release Date: Nov 10, 2009
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Cute - glad I didn't pay to see it. A bit crass in areas.
Why oh why can they not just let Gerard Butler speak in his regular (fabulous) accent?
Also Katherine Heigl should have just stuck to Grey's Anatomy -- all these romantic comedy roles she c... (read more) Cute - glad I didn't pay to see it. A bit crass in areas.
Why oh why can they not just let Gerard Butler speak in his regular (fabulous) accent?
Also Katherine Heigl should have just stuck to Grey's Anatomy -- all these romantic comedy roles she continues to do are beginning to feel the same to me.
Not as funny as I hoped it would be. Butler does not belong in Rom-Coms
I thought there were some laughs in this one. I enjoy watching Gerard Butler, so...
Gerard Butler is so uncomfortable in his role, you feel sorry for him throughout the movie.
Critic Reviews
In the age of neurotic screen hygiene each film must have an anti-Messiah who takes on the dirt of all. Elsewhere, wit-free dialogue combines with dust-free scenery and foible-free characters.full review
The ugly truth about The Ugly Truth is the fact that -- funny though it is -- it could have been a whole lot funnier.full review
Until that final, inevitable kiss, we have to listen to them, and the clatter of their crude, brainless exchanges is unbearable.full review
The film is so predictable that it might as well have been written as a test classroom exercise in RomCom 101.full review
Contrived as a crossover between a female-friendly romantic comedy and a male-targeted, anti-political correctness jab, The Ugly Truth veers between crude and cloying.full review
A blandly raunchy star vehicle that does its stars few favors.full review
Toss this ugly crap to the curb, along with the other multiplex garbage, and see a romance that gets it right. I'm talking (500) Days of Summer.full review
Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler are so pleasant in The Ugly Truth that it's a shame to spoil their party. But toil and try as they do, the comedy bogs down in relentless predictability and the puzzling overuse of naughty words.full review
This Butler-Heigl mismatch drop-kicks romcom from the RocknRolla sublime to the Apatow depths.full review
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