The Ugly Truth

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  • Opened July 24, 2009 
  • 1 hr 35 min
  • R | sexual content and language

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+. More on child suitability

  • 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. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Bree Turner, Eric Winter, Nick Searcy, Jesse D. Goins
  • Director: Robert Luketic
  • Genres: Romantic Comedy, Comedy

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Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

The Ugly Truth isn't fizzy and fun -- it's vacuously snappy. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Wesley Morris

The movie has embarrassingly limited ideas about both the sexes and sex. Like Sandra Bullock’s career woman in “The Proposal,’’ Abby appears to have never heard of intercourse, much less experienced it. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter
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A romantic comedy depends, of course, on the chemistry between the leads, and here the film is more successful. Both Heigl and Butler find the appeal in very flawed characters. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle
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Funny though it is - is it could have been a whole lot funnier. Read full review

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Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler in "The Ugly Truth."