“The Awful Truth” truly is a thought provoking piece. It makes you ask what is comedy? Should you respect the begging wishes of your actors? What is the awful truth? Impressively this movie is ‘based’ on a play and manages to not have a coherent plot or anything resembling a cohesive character arc. Director Leo McCarey may be the worst kind of Hollywood persona, a gimmicky hack. Though his chicanery won him the 1938 Oscar for Best Director, it wins nothing from us because we struggle to remember any of the movie.

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