The Truth About Love

R

2005

1h 34m

Romance

Comedy

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For years, Archie (Dougray Scott) has been pining for Alice (Jennifer Love Hewitt), the wife of his law partner, Sam (Jimi Mistry). When Archie impulsively sends Alice an anonymous love note, she assumes it to be a playful gesture from her husband, and replies with her own unsigned letter. After Sam hides the note, Alice's sister, Felicity (Kate Miles), convinces her that he must be having an affair. As the extent of Sam's infidelities becomes clear, Alice turns to Archie for support.

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David Gritten

Daily Telegraph (UK)

An awkward, last-minute romantic dash to Bristol's Temple Meads station in the style of Richard Curtis only serves to underline the air of creative bankruptcy.

Feb 16, 2007

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Anthony Quinn

Independent (UK)

John Hay's film has been on the shelf since 2004, and whoever decided to take it from there has some explaining to do.

Rated: 2/5

Feb 16, 2007

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

The Worst Film of 2007 awards race has now been called off.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 16, 2007

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Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

Rated: 1/5

Apr 4, 2011

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Cosmo Landesman

Sunday Times (UK)

The film is silly when it should be sexy, witless when trying to be funny. Everyone involved is probably deeply embarrassed to be associated with it.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 19, 2007

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Anton Bitel

Film4

The truth is, no matter how pretty this picture may be to look at, nothing can conceal its singular lack of humour or heart.

Rated: 1.5/5

Feb 16, 2007

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Nang X

I am absolutely shocked about the critics because this movie is one of my favorites. I loved the story... It isn't a classic romantic comedy movie, with 2 single persons meeting and falling in love with each others. But it's about cheating in married life, leaving a partner, finding about a misstress. It's actually quite deep and I liked it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/19/22

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Audience Member

Jennifer Love Hewitt doing a great a British accent or is it dubbed? 2 minutes of this tripe was enough to make me change channels.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Audience Member

Butterfly effect is the best! :)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Audience Member

Come on! It was very lovable. British romantic comedies are a bit more complex than american ones, so I found that with this rom com. Jimi Mistry is great as always and Jennifer Love Hewitt's character had a strange accent but still was likeable. I enjoyed the film

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Audience Member

Ho Hum and Love Hewitt in this is preety average.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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It's a decent Brit flick which isn't as bad as RT makes it out to be. Jennifer Love Hewitt is actually a pretty decent actress and not as bad as she's made out to be, she actually pulls off a pretty good English accent. The film is a Valentine's Day flick; it's about a woman called Alice (Love-Hewitt) whose marriage to husband Sam (Jimi Mistry) seems to be loosing it's spark so she sends him saucy messages pretending to be his anonymous secret admirer in hope of putting the spart back into their marriage. However he's being unfaithful to her and little does Alice know that Sam's best friend Archie (Dougray Scott) is in love with her. It's really cliche and predictable, but it's quite funny and it's good to watch an English film compared to a Hollywood film. The performances are decent and the characters apart from Sam an his Russian mistress Katya are likeable. Alice's sex mad sister, Flick (Kate Miles) is really funny and gives most of the laughs in this film. I have to agree that the script is very cliche and it's nothing original, but for a Valentine's Day movie it's OK. It's not ridiculously soppy. Whilst I'm not a fan of these kind of films I do enjoy the British humour and films set in London for a change being British myself. This film is a bit underrated and definitely not bad. I think it's underrated because apart from Jennifer Love-Hewitt this film doesn't have any big names; most of the actors in this aren't very well known. It's a big unfair how a film's popularity is based mainly by the actors who are in it. I've seen a lot worse films than this, ahem Love Actually. I don't know how Love Actually is one of the most popular romantic films out there when it's ridiculously cheesy and contrived. OK so the Truth About Love isn't an amazing film, the story has all been done before, but it's a fun watch. Grade: C

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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John Hay

Director

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Alice Holbrook

Dougray Scott

Archie Gray

Jimi Mistry

Sam Holbrook

Branka Katić

Katya

Kate Miles

Felicity

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Synopsis

For years, Archie (Dougray Scott) has been pining for Alice (Jennifer Love Hewitt), the wife of his law partner, Sam (Jimi Mistry). When Archie impulsively sends Alice an anonymous love note, she assumes it to be a playful gesture from her husband, and replies with her own unsigned letter. After Sam hides the note, Alice's sister, Felicity (Kate Miles), convinces her that he must be having an affair. As the extent of Sam's infidelities becomes clear, Alice turns to Archie for support.

Director: John Hay
Screenwriter: William Johnston
Production Co: Baker Street Media
Rating: R (Language|Sexual Content)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Oct 25, 2005
Runtime: 1h 34m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital