The Ugly Truth

Plot synopsis:
Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is a morning show TV producer in Sacramento, California. Abby firmly believes in true love and is a big supporter of complex self-help books such as Chicken Soup for the Soul and Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Coming home from a disastrous date, she happens to see a segment of a local television show, The Ugly Truth, featuring Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), whose cynicism about relationships prompts Abby to call in to argue with him on-air. The next day, she discovers the TV station is threatening to cancel her show because of its poor ratings. The station owner has hired Mike to do a segment on her show.
At first, the two have a rocky relationship; Abby thinks Mike is crass and disgusting while Mike finds her to be naive and a control freak. Nevertheless, when she meets the man of her dreams, a doctor named Colin (Eric Winter) living next to her, Mike convinces her that by following his advice she will improve her chances with Colin. Abby is skeptical, but they make a deal: If Mike's management of her courtship results in her landing Colin, proving his theories on relationships, she will work happily with him, but if Mike fails, he agrees to leave her show.
Mike succeeds in improving the ratings, brings married co-anchors Georgia and Larry closer and successfully instructs Abby to be exactly what Colin would want through a number of pointers including: always laugh at his jokes and say he is amazing in bed. Mike is invited to appear on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and is offered a job at another network. Abby is forced to cancel a romantic weekend away with Colin, during which they had planned to finally sleep together, and instead fly to Los Angeles to persuade Mike to stay with her show.
They drink and dance and Mike admits he does not want to move because he wants to stay in Sacramento near his sister and nephew. In the hotel elevator, they passionately kiss, but go to their separate rooms. Mike, dealing with the intensity of his feelings for Abby, calls on her room only to find Colin has shown up to surprise her. Mike leaves. Abby is upset and soon realizes Colin only likes the woman she has been pretending to be, not the real her. She breaks up with him.
Mike quits and takes a job with a rival TV station in Sacramento, and ends up doing a broadcast at the same hot air balloon festival as Abby. He cannot resist intruding when she kicks the new "Mike Chadway" imitator off the air and begins ranting about what cowardly weaklings men are. The balloon takes off while they argue. Abby says she broke up with Colin, and Mike admits he loves her. Abby kisses him while they fly off, all of which is broadcast due to a camera mounted in the balloon. The film ends with Abby and Mike in bed. When Mike asks if she was faking it, Abby responds, "You will never know it."

Tags: romantic, comedy, cute, entertaining, adult comedy

Review:
The comedy is "r" rated with a little raunchy adult humor that can be shocking at times but that is in line with the movies theme of male/female relationships.Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler were both great in the film.
And Katherine Heigl is once again perfect doing comedy.If you are expecting to see a typical romantic comedy you will be surprised, because this R rated film is geared toward the men in the audience as well as the ladies.
It truly is designed for both men and women with fantastic views on romance, sex, attraction etc from both sides.Acting is great, story is great and the chemistry between Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler works very well on screen.To sum this film up I have to say watch it.
And, two, that direction would be south, Abby believes, for they have hired a brash, I-don't-mince-words talk show host, Mike (Gerard Butler) for a reprise of his late-night call-in program, The Ugly Truth.
But being a romantic comedy, Abby and Mike instead fall for each other as usual, you know how the story goes.Now things I would've done different, if you don't want spoilers then don't read on: there is a child that comes into Mike's apartment, he and Mike get along great, I'm thinking that's his son; instead it's his nephew.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but I'm finding it hard to believe that girls who look like Katherine Heigl are having the hardest time finding love.But there are some positives in the film, honestly I did have a good time watching this film over all, it was just the ending that killed the movie.
We have some sick jokes but get a great laugh, Abby is going to a baseball game with Colin, her crush, and she accidentally spills her drink on his lap and starts rubbing his pants to clean them and the kiss cam lowers in on them with a bad angle looking like she's just having fun with his hot dog.
That all men want is sex therefore woman should accept this and dress like whores, act like whores and overall listen to misogyny.This film hurt me, it made me sick, I'm so glad only saw review because nothing about this movie appealed to me.
It's beyond me.There only one ugly truth here hypocrisy, making a film that attacks men rather than woman is just as bad as sexism against woman.Trust me girls, this movie isn't realistic to any degree of real people.So it just depresses me, how much people love this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1142988/Gender wars is a pathetic use of anyone time, once you see people as anyone other than the shallow superficial crap you think of us as, then truly there will be less of this contrived and jaded nonsense.God this movie annoyed the hell out of me.Don't watch..
Heigl is like in her previous movies very good, she is made for this type of movies and Butler is a real surprise, he did excellent in his very first romantic comedy.
I'm playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy?" The Ugly Truth star Katherine Heigl there, talking to 'Vanity Fair' in 2007 about Judd Apatow's 'Knocked Up.' Fast-forward a couple of years, and stone me, if Heigl's not playing another shrewish, humourless and uptight media-professional, in yet another opposites-attract romantic comedy.
This glamorous professional remains inexplicably single - until the execs pair her up with shouty shock jock Mike Chadway (a dodgy-accented Gerard Butler) to boost the ratings with his lame 'Men are from Bars, Women Need a Penis' shtick.
"Beats the s*** out of me, but I am." And that, boys and girls, is how you tidily dispose of character development when your script ain't worth a fart.Its leading lady exec-produced this (rarely a promising sign), and so did her mum, but this film seemingly exists only to utterly humiliate Heigl via three farcical set-pieces; the lowlight of which sees her remote-controlled vibrating sex knickers (a gift from Mike, with the honest-to-goodness words "this isn't for you, it's for your bean") being 'accidentally' activated while she's out having dinner with clients.
Personally as a woman I liked "Knocked Up" I thought that it was intelligent, witty, and great fun- unlike this piece of garbage called "The Ugly Truth." Hiegel thought that "Knocked Up" made women look like shrews who didn't like to have fun well this movie brought the shrew up to the upteanth billion factor.
I have not laughed so much over a movie as I did watching "The Ugly Truth" This was film was hysterical and Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl were great in the roles.
One night, she comes home from a disastrous date and happens to watch a segment of a TV show, "The Ugly Truth", hosted by "shock jock" by Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler).
"what men really want" , "what women really look for", "loving the 'me you want to see' or loving 'the real me'", all those little tidbits would have made benefited from a more central role in the film which would have given this movie a "fresher" feel instead of the stale standard story.I was personally very entertained by "The Ugly Truth" especially in the laughs department, not just because the jokes were extremely funny, but that they were also well written, witty and made sense without being offensive.
"The Ugly Truth" won't convert staunch action movie junkies or epic fantasy aficionados anytime soon, that's for sure, but just sit back relax and enjoy a good laugh that is easy on the brain.
I have no idea how Katherine Heigl or Gerard Butler can watch this movie without being completely embarrassed and ashamed.
I went to watch this movie, not with high hopes (after all the whole opposites attract formula has been used millions of times in romantic comedies, so it wasn't very original) but i thought it could be fun.
I mean the trailer had it's moments, and i am a Gerard Butler fan, i thought maybe he could have good chemistry with Katherine Heigl (she did OK in knocked up).
I am a big fan of Gerard Butler, but i don't know what he was thinking, is like he accepted the movie without even reading that awfully unfunny script.
I was not very interested in watching another romantic comedy with attractive main actors who hate themselves on the beginning for then falling in love, before some artificial obstacle imposes on their way to happiness.However, the subversive tone which was promised on the trailer of The Ugly Truth and its competent supporting cast made me to risk myself and go to watch it.The result was another mediocre and boring romantic comedy.There are some irreverent details on the screenplay from this movie, but they were not enough for hiding the tiring formula it follows and the huge number of clichés it has.One of the few things I liked on this movie was the appearances of competent comedians on supporting roles.They unfortunately do not appear too much, but I smiled with the brief appearances from Bree Turner, Cheryl Hines, John Michael Higgins, Bonnie Sommerville, Nate Corddry and Nate Lewis.All of them have unknown names but very familiar faces because of their frequent appearances on sit-coms and movies on the roles of best friend,neighbor or other peripheral roles.I do not have much more to say.The "ugly truth" from this film is that it has a forced premise, it is boring, there are too many clichés, it follows the cloying recipe from a lot of romantic comedies and that Robert Luketic (who has a wide experience on the romantic comedy genre)'s direction is absolutely insipid.I do not recommend this film..
However, unlike Apatow, who has figured out how to make films that are insightful as well as funny like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up" (ironically featuring this film's star, Katherine Heigl), Luketic shows no such finesse as everything in this film feels labored with the principal actors Heigl and Gerard Butler overplaying their opposites-attracts roles to near-cartoon proportions.
Moreover, there are so many absurd gross-out gags inserted in this film that it feels like the creators (including executive producer Heigl) completely miscalculates who its target audience appears to be.The strictly by-the-numbers plot centers on Abby Richter, an uptight, overachieving producer for a ratings-challenged morning talk show in, of all places, Sacramento.
I have just come from a movie theater where I saw the new romantic comedy "The Ugly Truth" starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler.
It was directed by Robert Luketic with three screen writers, two of whom worked with the director on an earlier hit, LEGALLY BLONDE.With a title that suggests the great Leo MacCarey comedy THE AWFUL TRUTH, this movie has been taking an awful lot of criticism, mostly directed at Miss Heigl, a beautiful and competent actress who has, it seemed, been called upon to carry a script which is mostly distinguished by the fact that her character, as written, is composed of a number of seemingly immiscible characteristics, none of which are ever sorted out; and which seems to attempt to move between standard screwball, standard romantic comedy, with occasional Farrelly-Brothers-style freak-out jokes tossed in, with no presagement, rhyme nor reason.The whole thing ends in such a predictable manner in a sky filled with balloons that the film might have been written by simply taking discarded parts of other scripts and tossing them in.In short, while Miss Heigl does not distinguish herself in this indistinguishable mess, laying the blame at her feet strikes me as cruel and foolish.
Her show has problems with the low ratings and the TV direction hires the cynical chauvinist Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler) that hosts the popular and gross mannish show "The Ugly Truth" about what men and women really want in a relationship.
But out of the blue, Colin arrives in Abby's room and she has to take a decision."The Ugly Truth" is a delightful romantic comedy supported by the beauty and charm of Katherine Heigl and her chemistry with Gerard Butler.
Abby (Heigl) is forced to increase ratings of the TV show she produces by allowing Mike (Butler) to show the women in the TV audience what men really want from women.After 10-minutes, I shut this down.
As much as the actors want there to be more involved with the movie, the bones just aren't there, and after a few early giggles, The Ugly Truth is exposed as a poor effort.The Ugly Truth opens with Heigl's character Abby as a depended-on news producer who's love life is in shambles due to her obsessive need for control (she has a checklist of ten things she expects in a man).
Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler do try to bring some life into their roles, but the two have no chemistry together and it doesn't help that their characters(and all the characters of the film for that matter) are so shallow and clichéd that I couldn't care for them at all.The worst assets were the script and the story.
If you want to see good clean comedy watch "The Proposal" instead.I assumed the script was written by single men who think acting like morons attracts women; interestingly, it was written by three women...perhaps they thought they had something to prove.
If you want to see good clean comedy watch "The Proposal" instead.I assumed the script was written by single men who think acting like morons attracts women; interestingly, it was written by three women...perhaps they thought they had something to prove.
Gerald Butler, I don't know you very well, but you did an amazing job in this movie.Maybe you should actually consider giving advice on how to get people with a boyfriend or girlfriend.If it worked with Katherine Heigl, it can work with anyone.If there is anything that I can say about you 2 people in this movie, it's that you have done a wonderful job as the main characters.It actually feels like I walked out of the theater with a breath of fresh air.Although this movie isn't excellent, it does deliver plenty of entertainment that fans of Mrs. Heigl and Mr. Butler will just love.In fact, they should do another romantic comedy together.It'll definitely spark some attention between them.I just know it.This movie has a significant similarity to one of the lines in the movie.In the movie, Katherine Heigl said, "There are no problems, only solutions".
'The Ugly Truth' is a solution for anyone who has a problem not enjoying romantic comedies.The movie may be a little predictable, but it's still enjoyable..
Though predictability and believability are the films biggest flaws, the chemistry and wit between Katherine Heigel and her co-star Gerard Butler keep it from being another run of the mill Romantic Comedy.
The Ugly Truth is a fun movie with a very good flow, a well-chosen pair to reflect the leading characters successfully and many funny (even hilarious) parts that make you laugh out loud.
Almost each and every dialogue between Abby (Katherine Heigl) and Mike (Gerard Butler) is filled with adult jokes or implies sexual content, but it achieves to keep it at a good quality and does not go down to a cheap level or end up in boring clichés.
This romantic comedy had two gut wrenching bully laugh scenes along with a more in your face sexist look at the differences between men and women which in some ways could be closer to the truth than more "enlightened" people may want to admit.
The Ugly Truth is funny and if you don't laugh then I kinda think that maybe it's not the movie that's rude and wrong headed, it's you..
In fact I would see this 20 more times in theaters before I even rented Bruno to see it again, and yes I think this could be a movie where you watch it more then once.Gerard Butler hasn't really proved to me what he can do with his acting skill till now, and I pray that he does more comedic roles.
Katherine Heigl was also good, maybe better then she was in Knocked Up, but still kind of same old Katherine.Now before the movie started I told myself that I would seriously mark this movie down a few points if the ending was as totally predictable as I thought it was going to be, but after how surprised I was, I decided to go a little easier.Conclusion: Girls, see it with a guy.
I had lots of laughs and liked seeing the relationship between Heigl and Butler turn from hate to love and i found this more as a romantic comedy than a chick flick.
It' not like the classic romance where love was obtained the old fashion way by holding hands and using manners.Katherine Heigl is an uptight and by the book California TV news producer who's programs are starting to fall in ratings.
Very inappropriate for high school aged kids who love the romantic comedy formula and go to these movies because they feel good that the couple ends up together happy.
All three of us knew the ending when we saw the trailer, but we had also felt this way about The Proposal trailer and had found that film really really funny, so we thought we'd give The Ugly Truth a try.
I feel bad for Katherine Heigl, I like her as an actress and I know she can be funny because I've seen Knocked Up. This film is just terribly clichéd and really rather dull, dull, dull.
I have no idea what drew either Katherine Heigl or Gerard Butler to think this was a worthwhile project.The messages put forward by the film are extremely toxic e.g. that the best way for a women to get a man is to strip herself of her own identity and change herself completely into a stereotype of 'what men want'.
I rented this because I like Gerard Butler and he owes big time with his next few movies otherwise I'm signing off of him for good.
It would be refreshing to have a film uphold a principle regardless of its consequences.Paradoxically, while discovering the movie rewarding on both counts, the truth was so ugly that I don't wish to see it again, and can better appreciate Katherine's fine acting skills in her earlier performance.Here's a succinct summary: The male lead portrays a sexist pig believing that men want only one thing, and women who romanticize for something more are losers.
Gerard Butler play's yet another brilliant role and Katherine Heigl gives a pretty good performance but all that is destroyed by the very unfunny and tacky last 20 minutes of the film.
She has so many hangups that she can't ever seem to get very far.Gerard Butler is Mike Chadway, a profane bachelor who comes on board at the TV station with the show "The Ugly Truth" which paints all men as uncaring morons who only want one thing, sex, and will do anything to get it.Abby is of course appalled, but Mike gives her a challenge -- if he can tell her what to do and say to get the affections of the guy of her dreams, a handsome young doctor who lives near her, will she accept Mike?
Believe it or not, there are people like Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) and Mike Chadway (Gerald Butler).
Mike host a TV Show call 'The Ugly Truth' where he advice women into getting relationship with men by being an over-the-top misogynist.
Both Butler and Heigl work well, but the movie gets kind of ugly at times..
Kathrine Heigl stars as a character that she plays a lot and Gerard Btutler stars in his best film of the year, The ugly truth.
Abby's news channel hires Mike Chadway(Gerard Butler), the host of a guy's show called The ugly truth.
The movie stars Katherine Heigl as Abby, a TV-news producer who has some trouble with men.
But then it's films like this that you watch for the journey rather than the destination, and 'The Ugly Truth' differs somewhat from other rom-coms in that it's ruder and more sexual in nature.Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is a successful T.V. producer for a morning show in Sacramento.