The Truth About Cats & Dogs

The Truth About Cats (Original Title: The Truth About Cats & Dogs ) is an American comedy film from the year 1996 was directed by Michael Lehmann and written by Audrey Wells. . The main roles were played by Uma Thurman and Janeane Garofalo.

Action

Veterinarian Abby Barnes is host of the radio show can get advice on dealing with their pets The Truth About Cats & Dogs, in the audience. She befriends her neighbor Noelle, a fashion model who is extremely attractive in contrast to her, but not particularly intelligent.

Abby is called in their mission of Brian, who has problems with his dog. She agrees to meet him because she has, however, described as an attractive blonde, she asks Noelle, Brian over than spend Abby. So he has it, without knowing it, to do with two women - Abby, with whom he phoned and Noelle, he meets.

Phone Abby and Brian lead exciting and intimate conversations that go on from time to time in our phone. One day Brian finds out that he is deceived. First he gets angry, he later forgives Abby. During the credits you can hear how these kids talking to Brian to be pregnant by one of the phone calls, but unsure of what the caller could be the child.

Reviews

The film received more positive reviews, it was described as romantic and charming.

James Berardinelli praised on ReelViews very much the appearance of Janeane Garofalo. In his opinion, Garofalo would the film work better than Uma Thurman. Berardinelli also praised the chemistry between Garofalo and Chaplin and directed by Michael Lehmann. He wrote that the film was a light entertainment as well as lovers of romantic comedies would expect.

Filmdienst 17/1996 praised the dialogues but described the comedy as routine and said staging the courage to take risks in use.

Ernst Corinth described the action in the film, Dirk Jasper lexicon as trite and banal but praised the brilliant staging as well as the representations of Garofalo and Thurman. He said Thurman would parody the unintelligent Models wonderful, Garofalo show a lot of self-irony. He praised the fact that the film would avoid it to be embarrassing or flat.

Awards

Janeane Garofalo was nominated for her role in the film award MTV Movie Award.

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