Columbia Pictures pairs up Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up, 27 Dresses) against Gerard Butler (300) in The Ugly Truth, a smart, sexy comedy about men, women and the giant abyss that stands between the ways we each think about, fantasize about and try to seduce the other.
Heigl and Butler are cast as two co-workers destined to despise one another. She's out to find a sophisticated dream partner. He's on a mission to tell women to get real and admit that men have just one thing on their minds. But
when he decides to help her get what she wants, they both learn
something unexpected about how even the most defiant
opposites attract.
Abby
Richter (Heigl) is an ambitious morning talk show producer on "A.M.
Sacramento" who prides herself on being able to find an instant
solution to any problem—any problem that is except her own unhappily
single status. When it comes to dating, the always-in-control Abby has a flawless track record of failure.
When
her show suffers a ratings slump, Abby is forced to team with the newly
recruited special correspondent Mike Chadway (Butler), a man who
couldn't push more of her buttons. His "The Ugly Truth" segment promises to spill the beans on what makes men really tick. But
his outrageously racy, gleefully chauvinistic, "shock jock" style rubs
Abby in all the wrong ways and to make matters worse, becomes an
instant ratings bonanza, sealing his network status.
Then
Abby meets Colin, her neighbor, and he's a single doctor! He's
everything Mike Chadway isn't—suave, polite, not remotely into jello
wrestling—and this time, Abby doesn't want to blow it. She hates to admit it, but she needs Mike's insight into the male mind to make the right moves. Now,
as Mike coaches Abby and Abby puts Mike's provocative seduction
theories to the test, they are both about to discover an ironic truth: as different as we might be, men and women share some of our most secret feelings in common.
Says
director Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde), "I think we're all starting
to realize that men and women are wired differently and it's liberating
to be able to play with that in a movie that's honest and frank, but
also outrageously irreverent, about what makes us different and what
brings us together. We are certainly all equal but the ugly truth
is that there are things men need and there are things women need—and
sometimes they clash, and yet...it's that difference that makes
romance so exciting and wonderful."
He continues: "I like that this movie is a chance to chill out and laugh over this stuff. Because
at the end of the day, when you strip away all the myths and all the
posturing men and women take so seriously, both sexes keep falling in
love in spite of it all."
Opening soon across the Philippines, The Ugly Truth is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International.