The Ugly Truth

R

Released Jul 24, 2009

1 hr. 35 min.

Romance

Comedy

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14%

174 Reviews

Tomatometer

60%

250,000+ Ratings

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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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Critics Consensus

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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Sreemoyee D

great easy on the eyes kinda movie. loved it!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/08/24

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Zach L

Oldie goodie and funny with two characters being so opposite but also so much fit for the other !

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/19/23

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Audience Member

Another retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac. Attempts to mash-up a rom-com with a raunchy laddish comedy and ends up being a disappointing version of both. Characters are painfully unsympathetic, although Gerard Butler manages to be actually watchable.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/28/23

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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 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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breno g

Special Effects: 0,5/Sound Effects: 1,0/Acting: 1,0/Story: 1,5

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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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 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Jason Best

Movie Talk

A hideously misguided attempt to marry girly chick-flick sentiment with laddish Judd-Apatow-style raunch.

Nov 22, 2020

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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
Executive Producer: Katherine Heigl, Nancy Heigl, Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith, Ryan Kavanaugh, Andre Lamal, Eric Reid
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

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