The Awful Truth

The Awful Truth


Starring:Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont, Esther Dale, Joyce Compton, Robert Allen, Robert Warwick, Mary Forbes, Frank C. Wilson, Dora Clement, Al Bridge, John Tyrrell (II), Asta (II), Arthur Stuart Hull, Wyn Cahoon, Paul Stanton (II), Frances Raymond
Director: Leo McCarey
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

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One of the top five screwball comedies of the '30s, this helped to cement a genre that waxed golden until the end of WWII. Director Leo McCarey won an Oscar for Best Director for this 1937 romantic comedy--one of the most successful films of his career. Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are a squabbling couple who separate because of supposed infidelities on both sides. They part but cannot really keep away from each other. Grant finds himself hooked up with a socialite, Dunne becomes engaged to a millionaire hick played by the hapless Ralph Bellamy (as if he ever stood a chance as the "other" man!). When not dating others or baiting one another in a verbal war, Grant and Dunne wage a custody battle over their pathetic pooch. Gags, double entendre, witty remarks, snide comments, and fast-paced dialogue helped this to garner six Academy Award nominations. The Awful Truth was awfully good to Dunne and Grant, as both were breaking out of much more serious molds and this secured their positions. --Rochelle O'Gorman
The Awful Truth
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  • the awful truth...
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 The Awful Truth
Starring: Irene Dunne , Cary Grant , Ralph Bellamy , Alexander D'Arcy , and Cecil Cunningham
Director: Leo McCarey
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ASIN: B000085EFE
Release Date: 2003-03-11

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One of the top five screwball comedies of the '30s, this helped to cement a genre that waxed golden until the end of WWII. Director Leo McCarey won an Oscar for Best Director for this 1937 romantic comedy--one of the most successful films of his career. Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are a squabbling couple who separate because of supposed infidelities on both sides. They part but cannot really keep away from each other. Grant finds himself hooked up with a socialite, Dunne becomes engaged to a millionaire hick played by the hapless Ralph Bellamy (as if he ever stood a chance as the "other" man!). When not dating others or baiting one another in a verbal war, Grant and Dunne wage a custody battle over their pathetic pooch. Gags, double entendre, witty remarks, snide comments, and fast-paced dialogue helped this to garner six Academy Award nominations. The Awful Truth was awfully good to Dunne and Grant, as both were breaking out of much more serious molds and this secured their positions. --Rochelle O'Gorman

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars the awful truth..........2007-05-19

is that we sat thru this movie. At least I see where "3's Company" got some of its material from.

the mother-in-law in the movie had the best lines, though.

3 out of 5 stars Ya get Deppression Glass with this one!.......2007-05-01

It's amazing how quickly Cary Grant with Mae West's help took over as the Hollywood suave-comic star. He's just oozing with charm and is cast nicely as a rich guy playing around on his virtuous wife.

Enter a new suitor, Ralph Bellamy. He's always the convenient also ran, a Texas Oil yokel with a smothering mother in tow. It's pretty predictable and the Depression audiences slum and laugh with the well-to-do for 90 minutes.

5 out of 5 stars one of the greatest screwball comedies.......2007-03-30

easily one of the funniest movies ever made. its incredible today to realize that irene dunne never won an oscar, and this year is the most galling of all, as she lost to the ridiculous luise rainer in "the good earth"; and even more galling to realize that cary grant was not even nominated (after all, its only a comedy, right?) but this is a movie that will never age: it makes me laugh as much today as when i first saw it on television thirty years back, and if id been alive to see it in a theater 70 years ago, the response would be the same. dunne and grant excel as a divorcing couple who sabotage each others new relationships, and randolph scott is a miracle as dunnes new fiancee ("not oklahoma city ITSELF?!"). but it is irene dunne who is the star here, and until such time as "theodora goes wild" and "show boat" are finally released on dvd, this is the best of her 30s roles.

5 out of 5 stars Better than most "modern" movies.......2007-02-05

I am not a fan of black and white movies, but this movie had such a good pace and overall ingenuity that I didn't even think about it being B&W. After watching it I realized that the topics in the movie are not only current to this day but that this movie sets a standard for today's "funny" movies, especially those with battle-of-the-sexes or relationship themes.

5 out of 5 stars Awfully Funny.......2006-11-15

After accusing each other of infidelity, Jerry and Lucy impulsively decide to divorce. They have to wait until the divorce is final, but in the meantime each begins to date other people. Lucy dates an oilman from Oklahoma and Jerry has great fun doing everything he can to ruin the romance including telling her how much she'll like Oklahoma's night life compared to New York's. Lucy gets her revenge by pretending to be his sister when Jerry dates a rich socialite. When they're not trying to sabotage each other's relationships, Jerry and Lucy are fighting over the custody of their dog, Mr. Smith.

"The Awful Truth" is one of the funniest screwball comedies that I've ever seen. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne are a delight as the feuding couple who truly deserve each other. There are many laugh out loud scenes in this movie - including when Jerry thinks Lucy is having an affair with her voice teacher and bursts in on what he thinks is the two of them; an off-screen fight between Jerry and said voice teacher; Jerry's date with a nightclub singer, and many many more. There are plenty of double entendres and sight gags to keep you laughing. From the very beginning you know how the movie is going to end, but it's a lot of fun getting to that ending.

"The Awful Truth" is awfully funny.
The Awful Truth - The Complete DVD Set (Seasons 1 & 2)
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 The Awful Truth - The Complete DVD Set (Seasons 1 & 2)
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ASIN: B00008K76O
Release Date: 2003-04-29

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Can you handle the truth? If you're Mickey Mouse, George Will, a Philip Morris executive, or any one of the corporate no-good-doers who pollute the environment, abandon their customers, or cheat their workers, best be on your guard: Michael Moore has got your number, or at the very least, your home address! Moore, muckraking journalist, guerilla filmmaker (Roger & Me), and all-around nonpartisan offender, follows up his Emmy-winning, albeit short-lived, TV series TV Nation with this even more confrontational series that can be seen on Bravo ("Between the Playboy Channel and Cartoon Network"). This set contains all the episodes from the show's premiere season. It is perhaps the most outrageous television you have never seen. The series is much more than Moore "going in someplace to bug somebody." There is method to Moore's madness. His outrage is palpable as he shames an insurance company into paying for a customer's life-or-death pancreas transplant by staging the man's mock funeral outside corporate headquarters. At the height of Monica-gate, Moore shows Washington, D.C., what a real witch-hunt looks like, complete with shrieking costumed Pilgrims. Other season 1 highlights include the return of Crackers, the plucky Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken, who visits Disneyland to advise Mickey Mouse about Disney's alleged unfair labor practices. Moore also spreads holiday jeer inside Philip Morris by leading a choir of cigarette-ravaged carolers, each of whom must use a voice box. The Awful Truth is not for the faint of heart (or conservatives, for that matter). As Moore remarks after a segment in which his "Gay Team" cruises America in a pink Sodommobile, "We'll never be back on NBC now." You go, Mike!

In the sophomore season, Moore rails against politics as usual and exposes what he calls your "basic, everyday, run of the mill evil corporations." The Awful Truth was anything but comfort television, as witness the episode "Compassionate Conservative Night," in which "Team Dow" and "Team Nasdaq" engage in such contests as "Dunk the Homeless" and "Pie the Poor." In another segment, Moore launches an orange day-glow wallet exchange program after a spate of shootings in which police mistook African American victims' wallets for firearms. Moore makes hay with the 2000 presidential election. In one audacious segment, he offers his support to any candidate who will jump into the Awful Truth's portable mosh pit. George W. Bush's response, "Go find real work," made its way into Fahrenheit 9/11. Only Alan Keyes is game, incurring attacks by the other candidates during a televised debate. In this series' version of a Very Special Episode, Moore presents a short film he directed, "The Choice," in which Moore runs a Ficus plant against an unopposed candidate for the New Jersey House of Representatives. Throughout the season, Moore plants the seeds that will pollinate in his two controversial cross-over theatrical documentaries. Anticipating Bowling for Columbine, one segment takes aim at the NRA with the introduction of a new gun mascot, Pistol Pete, a costumed weapon, who is summarily tossed out of a Las Vegas gun show, NRA headquarters, and our nation's capitol. Moore also turns up the temperature on then-Texas Governor George W. Bush in a segment that pits the man who would be president against his brother Jeb to see which of their respective states, Texas or Florida, will prevail in the number of executions. For a brief and shining moment, the revolution was televised. At 30 minutes an episode, The Awful Truth remains swift (or Swiftian) satire. For fans, this two-disc set will complete the Moore manifesto, and give more ammunition to his critics. --Donald Liebenson

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From acclaimed filmmaker and author Michael Moore comes THE AWFUL TRUTH, the most daring documentary show to hit the American public since Moore's own TV Nation. Now, for the first time, this Emmy nominated series is available in one complete DVD set.

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A hilarious do-gooder.......2006-12-27

Michael Moore cares about people and our country. Well worth watching. i especially liked seeing Alan Keyes in a mosh pit. Hilarious!!!

1 out of 5 stars Body by IHOP. Brains by Crayola........2006-06-01

Here's the "Awful Truth":

That you would be willing to let this man, a raving, terminally obese, incoherent highschool dropout, who is to truth what a lead block smeared with ketchup is to cheesecake---that you would let this man literally plunge his hamburger-grease stained mitts into your skull, forming the mushy stuff of your brain into little foamy pink chunks of liberal pabulum.

And that you would pay him money to render the service!

Yes, you could watch all of the episodes in "The Awful Truth": you would, no doubt, feel smug and superior to all those unenlightened troglodytes who voted for Bush. You might giggle a bit, which is a common side-effect of a political lobotomy.

But at the end of the day, it is far better that you take your lead from antiquity: when Oedipus realized his own version of the "Awful Truth"---that he had whacked Pa, gotten jiggy with Ma, and generally made an a** of himself---he stabbed out his own eyeballs.

Might I recommend the white-hot iron pokers?

JSG

5 out of 5 stars Ground-breaking....Great!.......2006-04-19

I am convinced the people who gave this one star did not watch any of the shows. If they had, they would have to agree that hounding an HMO until they pay for the necessary medical care of a dying man (who had payed for his health care for years) is quite impressive. Michael Moore saved the man's life! That is just one of the many issues Michale Moore took on during the running of this show. There are a few shows I could see where someone who is conservitive in their politics would not agree with. Those were not mentined in the negative reviews--so, again, I know they didn't watch.
Listen to those of us who HAVE watched the show. There is humor. There are some serious stories. Agree or disagree with Michael Moore's politics, but give him credit for standing up, not only for what he believes in, but for helping others in the process.
This show is very clever, funny, and worth buying and watching.

1 out of 5 stars Here's the awful truth.......2006-03-01

This is the perfect show for politically illiterate liberals who need a celebrity to reinforce their trendy, pre-packaged beliefs. Sure, this series bears some [contrived] humor; How convenient that renders it invunerable to criticism. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some regressive conservative who, with a red face, watched fahrenheit 9/11 and decided to slur Michael Moore because of his fabricated "misrepresentations and untruths." I guess I'm writing this because I had the misfortune of seeing "The Awful Truth," and I feel I need to get this off my chest or it will bore itself into my mind until I have an aneurysm. (If I had an aneurysm, I'd definitely make sure my dead body ends up up the Shamu tank at Sea World. At least I could warp some kids' minds in the process of dying.)

Every episode is literally like, "AWFUL FACT OF THE DAY: Some obscure, skewed study shows that Americans are dumb and like explosions and I'm Michael Moore an attention-starved clownboat!" Seriously, it's interesting Moore critiques "American Indulgence" when he thought having a television show for that kind of pseudo-racist content was alright.
- Thus Says the Pellington

4 out of 5 stars Top Notch.......2005-08-10

Moore is not for everyone. He is for the open-minded individual that is not afraid to ask the question 'why'. This was a beautiful series that has made me happy to see on DVD. For those that cannot stand his longer films, this would be the perfect venue to view his topics.
Michael Moore's short lived "TV Nation" gets a long awaited resurrection and make-over with "The Awful Truth" which demonstrates the true power and potential of television. Michael Moore is the documentarian behind "Roger And Me" and "The Big One" and author of "Downsize This".
Do yourself a favour, catch this show, have a laugh, and watch an important crusader do what he does best, make slimy corporations very nervous, and improving the world a bit at a time.
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    Release Date: 2006-02-07

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    Holiday
    Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter and having difficulties being able to spend the early years of his life on "Holiday."

    Only Angels Have Wings
    Jean Arthur is a stranded showgirl who sets her sights on Cary Grant in this rousing adventure tale of men who fly mail planes over the Andes.

    The Talk of the Town
    A charming fugitive, a beautiful teacher, and a stuffy lawyer, forced to become roommates, are rumor-mill fodder in this madcap romantic farce.

    His Girl Friday
    A classic comedy in which Rosalind Russell plays reporter Hildy Johnson, who, on the eve of her remarriage, is talked into one more assignment by her editor and ex-husband.

    The Awful Truth
    The screwball antics of a couple (Irene Dunne and Cary Grant) who can't stand being married, but can't stand seeing the other married to anyone else.
    Best of The Awful Truth
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      Starring: Jerry Minor , Bruce Brown (III) , M.J. Karmi , Jay Martel , and Karen Duffy
      Director: Michael Moore (II) , and Tom Gianas
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      Release Date: 2006-08-29

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      Before Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore had politicians and big business on the run with his Emmy®-nominated series The Awful Truth. With this collection of six fan-favorite episodes, you can enjoy the best of Moore's hilarious stunts, scathing observations, and trademarked rants! The disc includes: Season 1 Episode 1: Mike goes on a Ken Starr witch hunt and conducts a funeral outside an HMO headquarters. Season 1 Episode 3: Crackers the Crime Fighting Chicken gets thrown in Disneyland jail, and the voice-box Christmas carolers sing for big tobacco. Season 1 Episode 12: Mike goes to Mexico to find missing jobs, unionizes expert strikebreakers, and throws a Chrysler--Daimler-Benz wedding. Season 2 Episode 13: Presidential candidates mosh for endorsement, and a talking purple pistol shows kids how to use guns. Season 2 Episode 15: Immigrant maids try to unionize and end up fighting deportation, and a slave laborer from World War II takes his compensation complaints to BMW. Season 2 Episode 17: Ficus for Congress: A houseplant runs for the House of Representatives. DVD Features: Two Episode Commentaries by Michael Moore; Michael Moore Biography; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection
      The Awful Truth - The Complete First Season
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        ASIN: B00004WGSB
        Release Date: 2000-10-31

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        Can you handle the truth? If you're Mickey Mouse, George Will, a Philip Morris executive, or any one of the corporate no-good-doers who pollute the environment, abandon their customers, or cheat their workers, best be on your guard: Michael Moore has got your number, or at the very least, your home address! Moore, muckraking journalist, guerilla filmmaker (Roger & Me), and all-around nonpartisan offender, follows up his Emmy-winning, albeit short-lived, TV series TV Nation with this even more confrontational series that can be seen on Bravo ("Between the Playboy Channel and Cartoon Network"). This set contains all the episodes from the show's premiere season. It is perhaps the most outrageous television you have never seen. The series is much more than Moore "going in someplace to bug somebody." There is method to Moore's madness. His outrage is palpable as he shames an insurance company into paying for a customer's life-or-death pancreas transplant by staging the man's mock funeral outside corporate headquarters. At the height of Monica-gate, Moore shows Washington, D.C., what a real witch-hunt looks like, complete with shrieking costumed Pilgrims. Other season 1 highlights include the return of Crackers, the plucky Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken, who visits Disneyland to advise Mickey Mouse about Disney's alleged unfair labor practices. Moore also spreads holiday jeer inside Philip Morris by leading a choir of cigarette-ravaged carolers, each of whom must use a voice box. The Awful Truth is not for the faint of heart (or conservatives, for that matter). As Moore remarks after a segment in which his "Gay Team" cruises America in a pink Sodommobile, "We'll never be back on NBC now." You go, Mike! --Donald Liebenson

        Description

        From the acclaimed filmmaker who brought you Roger & Me comes the most daring documentary show to hit the American Public since Moore's TV Nation: THE AWFUL TRUTH

        Michael Moore, hailed by the New York Times as a modern-day Mark Twain, is at it again with the show that was shut down by the mayor of NYC, got Moore sued by a wealthy industrialist, and landed his Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken in Disney World's very own jail.

        Shot in his signature "guerilla video" style, each half hour episode is filled with scathingly funny observations that bridge comedy and controversy and places Moore in the middle of today's hot topics.

        DVD Features: Michael Moore Biography; "Moore Awful Truths"; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection
        The Awful Truth - The Complete Second Season
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          ASIN: B00005U8ES
          Release Date: 2002-01-29

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          Elvis Costello once sang, "I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused." One gets the feeling that it is the exact opposite with Michael Moore. In this sophomore season of his subversively funny, albeit short-lived, Bravo series The Awful Truth, the working class hero operates under the basic-cable radar to rail against politics as usual and to expose what he calls your "basic, everyday, run of the mill evil corporations." The Awful Truth was anything but comfort television, as witness the episode "Compassionate Conservative Night," in which "Team Dow" and "Team Nasdaq" engage in such contests as "Dunk the Homeless" and "Pie the Poor." In another segment, Moore launches an orange day-glow wallet exchange program after a spate of shootings in which police mistook African American victims' wallets for firearms. Moore makes hay with the 2000 presidential election. In one audacious segment, he offers his support to any candidate who will jump into the Awful Truth's portable mosh pit. George W. Bush's response, "Go find real work," made its way into Fahrenheit 9/11. Only Alan Keyes is game, incurring attacks by the other candidates during a televised debate. In this series' version of a Very Special Episode, Moore presents a short film he directed, "The Choice," in which Moore runs a Ficus plant against an unopposed candidate for the New Jersey House of Representatives.

          Throughout the season, Moore plants the seeds that will pollinate in his two controversial cross-over theatrical documentaries. Anticipating Bowling for Columbine, one segment takes aim at the NRA with the introduction of a new gun mascot, Pistol Pete, a costumed weapon, who is summarily tossed out of a Las Vegas gun show, NRA headquarters, and our nation's capitol. Moore also turns up the temperature on then-Texas Governor George W. Bush in a segment that pits the man who would be president against his brother Jeb to see which of their respective states, Texas or Florida, will prevail in the number of executions. For a brief and shining moment, the revolution was televised. At 30 minutes an episode, The Awful Truth remains swift (or Swiftian) satire. For fans, this two-disc set will complete the Moore manifesto, and give more ammunition to his critics. --Donald Liebenson

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          He's back! Michael Moore, America's Emmy-nominated gadfly of gall, takes to the road again for a second season of The Awful Truth, hailed by critics as the most daring show to hit the American public since Moore's own critically acclaimed TV Nation. In th
          The Awful Truth: Season one, Volume 2
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            The Awful Truth [Region 2]
            Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
            • the awful truth...
            • Ya get Deppression Glass with this one!
            • one of the greatest screwball comedies
            • Better than most "modern" movies
            • Awfully Funny
            		 The Awful Truth [Region 2]
            Starring: Irene Dunne , Cary Grant , Ralph Bellamy , Alexander D'Arcy , and Cecil Cunningham
            Director: Leo McCarey
            ProductGroup: DVD
            Binding: DVD

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            ASIN: B00008AWRC

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            One of the top five screwball comedies of the '30s, this helped to cement a genre that waxed golden until the end of WWII. Director Leo McCarey won an Oscar for Best Director for this 1937 romantic comedy--one of the most successful films of his career. Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are a squabbling couple who separate because of supposed infidelities on both sides. They part but cannot really keep away from each other. Grant finds himself hooked up with a socialite, Dunne becomes engaged to a millionaire hick played by the hapless Ralph Bellamy (as if he ever stood a chance as the "other" man!). When not dating others or baiting one another in a verbal war, Grant and Dunne wage a custody battle over their pathetic pooch. Gags, double entendre, witty remarks, snide comments, and fast-paced dialogue helped this to garner six Academy Award nominations. The Awful Truth was awfully good to Dunne and Grant, as both were breaking out of much more serious molds and this secured their positions. --Rochelle O'Gorman

            Customer Reviews:

            2 out of 5 stars the awful truth..........2007-05-19

            is that we sat thru this movie. At least I see where "3's Company" got some of its material from.

            the mother-in-law in the movie had the best lines, though.

            3 out of 5 stars Ya get Deppression Glass with this one!.......2007-05-01

            It's amazing how quickly Cary Grant with Mae West's help took over as the Hollywood suave-comic star. He's just oozing with charm and is cast nicely as a rich guy playing around on his virtuous wife.

            Enter a new suitor, Ralph Bellamy. He's always the convenient also ran, a Texas Oil yokel with a smothering mother in tow. It's pretty predictable and the Depression audiences slum and laugh with the well-to-do for 90 minutes.

            5 out of 5 stars one of the greatest screwball comedies.......2007-03-30

            easily one of the funniest movies ever made. its incredible today to realize that irene dunne never won an oscar, and this year is the most galling of all, as she lost to the ridiculous luise rainer in "the good earth"; and even more galling to realize that cary grant was not even nominated (after all, its only a comedy, right?) but this is a movie that will never age: it makes me laugh as much today as when i first saw it on television thirty years back, and if id been alive to see it in a theater 70 years ago, the response would be the same. dunne and grant excel as a divorcing couple who sabotage each others new relationships, and randolph scott is a miracle as dunnes new fiancee ("not oklahoma city ITSELF?!"). but it is irene dunne who is the star here, and until such time as "theodora goes wild" and "show boat" are finally released on dvd, this is the best of her 30s roles.

            5 out of 5 stars Better than most "modern" movies.......2007-02-05

            I am not a fan of black and white movies, but this movie had such a good pace and overall ingenuity that I didn't even think about it being B&W. After watching it I realized that the topics in the movie are not only current to this day but that this movie sets a standard for today's "funny" movies, especially those with battle-of-the-sexes or relationship themes.

            5 out of 5 stars Awfully Funny.......2006-11-15

            After accusing each other of infidelity, Jerry and Lucy impulsively decide to divorce. They have to wait until the divorce is final, but in the meantime each begins to date other people. Lucy dates an oilman from Oklahoma and Jerry has great fun doing everything he can to ruin the romance including telling her how much she'll like Oklahoma's night life compared to New York's. Lucy gets her revenge by pretending to be his sister when Jerry dates a rich socialite. When they're not trying to sabotage each other's relationships, Jerry and Lucy are fighting over the custody of their dog, Mr. Smith.

            "The Awful Truth" is one of the funniest screwball comedies that I've ever seen. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne are a delight as the feuding couple who truly deserve each other. There are many laugh out loud scenes in this movie - including when Jerry thinks Lucy is having an affair with her voice teacher and bursts in on what he thinks is the two of them; an off-screen fight between Jerry and said voice teacher; Jerry's date with a nightclub singer, and many many more. There are plenty of double entendres and sight gags to keep you laughing. From the very beginning you know how the movie is going to end, but it's a lot of fun getting to that ending.

            "The Awful Truth" is awfully funny.

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