THE UGLY TRUTH
HEADLINE: ** Opposites Attract **
Title: THE UGLY TRUTH
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -3
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: V
Sex: SS
Nudity: N
RATING: R
RELEASE: July 24, 2009
TIME: 101 minutes
STARRING: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Eric Winter, John Michael Higgins, Nick Searcy, Kevin Connolly, Cheryl Hines, and Bree Turner
DIRECTOR: Robert Luketic
PRODUCERS: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Steven Reuther, Kimberly di Bonaventura, and Deborah Jelin Newmyer
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Katherine Heigl, Andre Lamal, Eric Reid, Nancy Heigl, Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith, and Ryan Kavanaugh
WRITERS: Nicole Eastman, Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Entertainment
CONTENT: (H, PaPa, Ro, B, LLL, V, SS, N, A, MM) Light humanist worldview with strong pagan elements and light Romantic elements in sex farce between two characters, one of whom tries to help the other land the ideal mate she has created in her mind, plus some light moral content in the male lead's compassion toward his sister's son, whose father is missing for some unexplained reason, and in the movie's backhanded support of telling the truth; 58 obscenities (including a few "f" words), three strong profanities and 17 light profanities; light comic violence when tree limb breaks and woman hangs upside down from tree; strong sexual content includes crude verbal references to sex, oral sex, sex organs, a sex toy, and self-abuse, plus briefly depicted sex between man and woman; rear male nudity in a couple scenes and upper male nudity, plus romance eventually leads to the bedroom, one dream scene shows naked woman has objects hiding her nude torso in strategic places and woman accidentally sees man's naked sex organ, but the nudity is not explicitly shown to the camera; alcohol use; no smoking; and, bickering married couple, romance leads to the bedroom, and woman pretends to be a different person than she is so that she can land a handsome young doctor as her boyfriend.
GENRE: Romantic Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Adults
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SUMMARY: THE UGLY TRUTH is a sex farce about the clash between a beautiful TV producer who has trouble dating and the frank, crude host of a popular segment on romance and sex. THE UGLY TRUTH has a lot of funny comic energy going for it, but there is very little morality to its portrayal of romance and sex, which includes many crude sexual references, mostly verbal ones, and an excessive amount of foul language.
IN BRIEF:
THE UGLY TRUTH, a romantic comedy, opens with a producer of a local morning TV show in Sacramento learning from her boss that the ratings are sinking. The next day, Abby's boss brings in Mike, the crude host of a love advice show called "The Ugly Truth," to do regular segments on Abby's show. Mike's segments, which are deliberately racy and chauvinistic, annoy Abby. Especially when they hit a chord with viewers. Then, Abby accidentally meets her new next-door neighbor, a handsome young doctor. In order to prove to her that he knows what makes men tick, Mike offers to leave the show if he cannot help Abby land the doctor as a boyfriend.
THE UGLY TRUTH has a lot of funny comic energy going for it, but there's a lot of sexual vulgarity in the verbal sparring between the two romantic leads, played by Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. The movie also has a racy scene at a restaurant and a briefly depicted sex scene. Many obscenities and profanities also occur. Perhaps worst of all, there is very little morality to the movie's portrayal of romance and sex.
