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The Ugly Truth (2009)
Director: Robert Luketic
Movie review
From Time Out Chicago
It’s uglier than you think, offering romantic comedy’s now de rigueur ritual humiliation of a professional woman (Heigl) while adding a dose of raunch to try to shock the dead genre back to life. As a tightly wound television producer, Heigl flops around, by turns repressed, brassy, saucy and moronic. As the neanderthal on-air talent she hates, Butler seems to be aiming for "man who’s been hit with a two-by-four." If so, he nails it. Hearing Heigl deliver “banter” about cock-sucking does not make this funny. Embarrassing, depressing, sexist, stupid, sure. Funny? No.
Author: Hank Sartin
Time Out Chicago
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Luketic
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Bree Turner, Eric Winter, Jesse D. Goins, Cheryl Hines, John Michael Higgins full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Rated: R
Duration: 97 mins
US Release: Jul 31 2009
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