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The Truth About Love

Cert: 15

Description: Alice Holbrook is happily married to Sam, the man of her dreams. After a boozy night with her sister, Alice jokingly sends her husband an anonymous Valentine's card to see what his reaction might be. When Sam hides the card from his wife, she begins to suspect that their marriage might not be as perfect as she first thought, setting in motion a chain of events, which gradually wrenches the relationship apart.

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Dir: John Hay.

Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jimi Mistry, Dougray Scott

Country: UK.

Year: 2006.

Duration: 94mins

Buttock-clenchingly awful

By Nick Curtis
15 Feb 2007

This buttock-clenchingly awful, Bristol-based romantic comedy struggled to find financing, almost collapsed in pre-production and has waited since 2004 for a release. Someone should have taken it out and shot it.

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Dougray Scott and Jimi Mistry, all comprehensively miscast, fight an already-lost battle with one of the worst scripts ever written, about a wife who tries to re-seduce her faithless husband before falling for his best friend.

If things weren't bad enough, it's also got Emma Noble and Karl Howman in it.

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I think Nick Curtis has gone a bit soft on this sorry excuse for a rom-com. During the scene when a lovelorn Dougray Scott kicked his heels and gazed into the river from the Clifton Suspension Bridge, several uncharitabe cinema-goers at my screening shouted "jump". It's just a shame he couldn't have taken Karl Howman with him.

- Ted Gaumont, Harrow, London, 15/02/2007 15:48
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