The Truth About Cats & Dogs

Infobox_Film
name = The Truth About Cats & Dogs


caption = The movie poster.
writer = Audrey Wells
starring = Uma Thurman
Janeane Garofalo
Ben Chaplin
Jamie Foxx
director = Michael Lehmann
producer = Cari-Esta Albert
music = Howard Shore
cinematography = Robert Brinkmann
editing = Stephen Semel
distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = April 26, 1996
runtime = 97 min.
language = English
budget = Unknown
amg_id = A135982
imdb_id = 0117979

"The Truth About Cats & Dogs" is a 1996 American film, a romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin, and Jamie Foxx. It was directed by Michael Lehmann and written by Audrey Wells. The original music score was composed by Howard Shore.

Plot summary

Even though it is set in modern times and genders have been reversed, the film's plot loosely follows the story of Cyrano de Bergerac. Abby Barnes (played by Garofalo) is a veterinarian, who hosts a Los Angeles radio show called "The Truth About Cats and Dogs." The use of this as the title of the film also suggests the combative nature of male-female romantic relationships. Abby strikes up an unexpected friendship with her neighbour Noelle Slusarsky (Thurman), a traditionally attractive model who is sweet but not very sharp. When Abby makes a blind date with a caller to her show (Chaplin), her insecurity with her own appearance leads her to convince Noelle to pretend to be Abby when meeting the date. Unfortunately both women develop feelings for the man leading to a comedic series of misunderstandings as their unintentional deception grows deeper.

Although the film was a decent commercial success, Garofalo was very unhappy about the film, calling it "anti-feminist" and virtually disowning it.

Coincidentally, several years later Garofalo would become a radio talk show host for real (something she'd maintained for years in interviews that she wanted to do), as she co-hosted "The Majority Report" on Air America Radio. She left the show in 2006, citing differences with her co-host, Sam Seder.

Cast

Trivia

Shawn Crahan of Slipknot was featured in this film. Somewhere around the middle of the film, Brian can be seen smoking a cigarette through a clown mask.

ee also

"The Truth About Cats & Dogs" (soundtrack)

External links

* [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,292343,00.html "The 'Truth' About Stardom"] , a 1996 "Entertainment Weekly" article about Garofalo, Thurman, and the making of "The Truth About Cats & Dogs".
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