The Ugly Truth (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: Gerard Butler, Katherine HeiglBrand: Son
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
Published: 2009-11-01
DVD Release Date: 2009-11-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Ugly Truth (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Hands down the best date movie ever
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're like me the debate over what movie to see with your significant other is something like pleading your case in front of a jury. He builds a case for what he wants to see (normally shoot em up movies, sci fi thrillers, dumb guy comedy or ones with gratuitous sex scenes) and I build a case for those I like to watch (romantic comedies, intense dramas, or epic sagas ...what can I say I'm a girl). There are a few genres we both enjoy but those don't truly fall under the "date" category. Most of the time when we DO find a date movie to agree on we find it to be cheesy or one of us walks away liking it vastly more than the other. This was the first romantic comedy that we both loved in equal measure.
The plot is pretty basic -- Katherine Heigel's character is a high maintenance woman working as a producer for a network that desperately needs to be injected with more ratings with about the same intensity she needs a boyfriend. He is an in your face shock jock with his own show that gives a humorous but one sided view of the dating game. The two would never have occasion to meet (because they are opposites in every way) but her boss employs him as a way to get ratings back up. She won't work him until he makes her a deal that he can coach her to get the man of her dreams.
Both my husband and I found both of the characters great believable examples of some of the extremely different perceptions that happen between the two sexes. The dialogue between the two characters is hysterical as well as being on point for the dymanic they're trying to portray in the movie. They do create some highly improbable scenarios during the movie (which I don't want to give away for fear it will ruin the movie) but set it up just right to make it plausible. The chemistry between these two was awesome and I would definately love to see them in more stuff together.
What really makes this great for a date movie is the amount of "guy" and "girl" humor in there. Every time Heigel spoke I slapped my husband on the shoulder and pointed and every time Butler gave a raunchy come back he laughed back in my face. The movie blends them together so well and sends the message that it's somewhere in the middle of these two polar opposites that the true key to love is found.
It was truly one of the most charming movies I've seen in a long time.
Summary of The Ugly Truth (Widescreen Edition)
Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler star in this wildly funny battle of the sexes. Abby (Heigl), a successful morning show producer, is looking for a lot in a man. Mike (Butler), her obnoxious TV star, knows men only want one thing. Determined to prove that she's not romantically challenged, Abby takes Mike's advice during a promising new romance, but the unexpected results will stun everyone.Katherine Heigl further cements her reputation as one of film's most dazzling, and go-to, romantic comedy heroines. In The Ugly Truth she brings her deft comic timing and true vulnerability to a film that avoids clichés, successfully, all the way until the surprising, quiet end. Heigl's partner in crime--and at first, in pure hatred--is the rakishly charming Gerard Butler. Heigl plays Abby, a career-bound TV producer, and Butler is Mike, an outrageous dude's dude whose public access show about what men want (one thing only) makes him so popular that he's hired to work alongside Abby, who naturally chafes at everything Mike stands for. Yet The Ugly Truth could not be more unpredictable, and men as well as women will like the refreshing story line and the crisp direction by Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde, Monster-in-Law). Both lead actors put their all into their performances, and the nuance and depth makes The Ugly Truth not just a great date-night film, but a transportive testament on the primal human urge simply to connect. The Ugly Truth is more than a little raunchy, and it deserves its R rating, but there's hilarity in its crudeness. The supporting cast includes the delightful Cheryl Hines and John Michael Higgins as a tensely married couple forced to appear together on TV. And Eric Winter (Brothers & Sisters) is dreamy as Abby's potential love-match--as long as she doesn't have to be herself. The DVD includes mostly forgettable deleted and extended scenes, but also a gag reel that shows that the cast had every bit as much fun creating the film as the viewer has watching it. The Ugly Truth has never shined so brightly. --A.T. Hurley
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