Columbia Pictures · 2009 · rated R
The Ugly Truth
A morning-show producer is made to take on-air advice from a cable presenter who says out loud what she edits out. They bet on his method. Ninety-six minutes, four rooms.
- Director
- Robert Luketic
- Screenplay
- Nicole Eastman · Karen McCullah · Kirsten Smith
- Score
- Aaron Zigman
- Released
- 24 July 2009
- Certificate
- R (MPAA)
- Runtime
- 96 minutes
The Money
Thirty-eight million made roughly two hundred
The film cost about $38m and took around $205m worldwide, which is the ratio that kept the genre commissioned.
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Standing supporters
The whole picture is shot in these
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A television lead crossing into film at the right moment
Katherine Heigl arrived from a network drama into a run of studio comedies while the form was still reliably profitable.
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The audience graded it well above the critics
CinemaScore polls opening-night audiences and produces a grade that frequently diverges from aggregate critical scores. Here it did.
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The newsroom comedy it is descended from
His Girl Friday (1940) set the antagonistic-professionals template that this film is still working inside.
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The mid-budget studio comedy stopped being made
After roughly 2013 the economics moved to franchises and streaming, and the budget band this film sat in largely disappeared.