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Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is a lovelorn TV producer who, despite a long and arduous search for the perfect mate, is hopelessly single. The battle of the sexes heats up when her employers team her up with Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), an opinionated TV celebrity who plans to put Abby through the wringer to prove his own theories about what makes men and women tick.

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Despite the best efforts of Butler and Heigl, The Ugly Truth suffers from a weak script that relies on romantic comedy formula, with little charm or comedic payoff.

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The Ugly Truth | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald Heigl is said to have fallen out with Apatow since the making of Knocked Up. Maybe she should reconnect with him. Rated: 2/5 Aug 14, 2009 Full Review The Ugly Truth | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Tim Nagle Times (UK) The film is desperate to be edgy, but its attempts at adult humour are woefully misjudged. Rated: 1/5 Aug 11, 2009 Full Review The Ugly Truth | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard The ugly truth about this insipid romcom is that Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler are entirely wasted. Rated: 1/5 Aug 11, 2009 Full Review The Ugly Truth | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Everything about it was obviously handed down from another source, and even while realizing that, you’ll probably find the result very watchable, if forgettable. Rated: 1.5/4 Sep 4, 2023 Full Review The Ugly Truth | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Eddie Harrison film-authority.com ...everything that could snarl up happens here; unsympathetic leads, silly scenarios, a wealth of sexual crudity and a debatable truth about men and women that ends up feeling rather...ugly... Rated: 1/5 Oct 9, 2021 Full Review The Ugly Truth | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Jason Best Movie Talk A hideously misguided attempt to marry girly chick-flick sentiment with laddish Judd-Apatow-style raunch. Nov 22, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Sreemoyee D great easy on the eyes kinda movie. loved it! Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/08/24 Full Review Zach L Oldie goodie and funny with two characters being so opposite but also so much fit for the other ! Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/19/23 Full Review Audience Member I was on a cheesy romcom marathon and I remembered my parents watching this movie when I was a kid, so I thought I'd give it a try. Jesus Christ I wish I didn't because I can't remember the last time I got so angry over a movie. Stopped watching about halfway through. This movie isn't funny. Like at all. And it's barely romantic either, so the title of romcom barely fits. The plot relies on the boring, overdone formula of good girl/bad guy, but it doesn't even do that well. It's ‘comedy' is lazy, relying solely on misogyny and the sexualisation/objectification of women as a crutch for its poorly written jokes. The characters are all so 2 dimensional and forgettable that I don't even remember most of their names. The love interest played by Gerard Butler has literally no redeemable qualities. He's just an asshole that gets the girl simply because the plot requires it. And for some reason we're supposed to root for him over the sweet neighbour who has done practically nothing wrong??? No real woman would EVER choose someone like him, and it's so clear that this movie was written by misogynistic men to appeal to the fantasies of other misogynistic men. Overall just a sad sad attempt at a movie, with boring old jokes that just don't hold up in the current day. But what was I expecting from a movie released in 2009?? Ik this review will mean absolutely nothing to a movie released 13 years ago but I had to vent somewhere. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review breno g Special Effects: 0,5/Sound Effects: 1,0/Acting: 1,0/Story: 1,5 Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Heigl goes from playing an intelligent producer to a women willing to change her true self to a new faker version of herself who's sexier, dumber, and is willing to oversexualize herself in order to make him like her. This man obviously doesn't care one ounce about her personality or anything besides the fact she is an object to have sex with. It made me cringe several times, and I didn't laugh once. I just shut off the TV before the hotdog scene. So overall, it sucked. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Funny and realistic movie. Got a good point and can be watch many times without getting boring. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Robert Luketic Director Katherine Heigl Abby Richter Gerard Butler Mike Chadway Eric Winter Colin John Michael Higgins Larry Bree Turner Joy
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Synopsis Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is a lovelorn TV producer who, despite a long and arduous search for the perfect mate, is hopelessly single. The battle of the sexes heats up when her employers team her up with Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), an opinionated TV celebrity who plans to put Abby through the wringer to prove his own theories about what makes men and women tick.

Director
Robert Luketic

Producer
Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Steven Reuther, Kimberly di Bonaventura, Deborah Jelin Newmyer

Screenwriter
Nicole Eastman, Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith

Distributor
Columbia, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Production Co
Lakeshore Entertainment, Steven Reuther

Rating
R (Sexual Content|Language)

Genre
Romance, Comedy

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 24, 2009, Wide

Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 16, 2012

Box Office (Gross USA)
$88.9M

Runtime
1h 35m
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