The Truth About Cats & Dogs Page #8

Synopsis: Janeane Garofalo plays Dr. Abby Barnes, the "Truth About Cats and Dogs" radio question-and-answer show host who unwittingly entices a listener over the radio with her soothing voice and personality. This listener, Brian, tries to meet the Abby from the radio, but Noelle, played by Uma Thurman, is mistaken for the real thing when Brian comes to the studio. Instead of clearing things up right away, the self-conscious Abby allows her best friend, Noelle, a tall, stunning blonde, to take her place for a while. Abby takes on the made-up persona of Donna, while thinking Brian would never go for her, a short, cute, brunette, who thinks she's unattractive. As the real Abby woos Brian over the phone and radio, Noelle, the pseudo-Abby, takes her place in the flesh. As time goes on, Abby feels more and more confident that Brian would rather have the beautiful Noelle than the simply attractive Abby.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Michael Lehmann
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
PG-13
Year:
1996
97 min
1,687 Views


The humiliation was just a bonus.

What are we discussing?

Well, there's the issue of Hank,

who's in a terrible state without you.

Weren't you, Hank? Hank? Come on, boy.

Terrible state.

Oh!

- No, this is beneath you. Never stoop.

- No, really, he couldn't sleep.

And he kept me up all night, wanting to

talk about why it took us... why it took me...

...so long to understand

what was really going on.

And then we wrote some

extraordinarily bad poetry together.

No, mine wasn't that bad.

Hank's was... pathetic.

And then we fought over which one of us

got to carry your shoe around in his mouth.

And...

Abby...

...I only ever loved one woman...

...and I don't want to lose her twice.

I gotta tell you something.

What?

That night on the phone?

Yeah?

I'm pregnant.

Darling...

(Brian) Are you sure it was me?

(Abby) Actually, I don't know.

I made a lot of calls that night.

("For Once In My Life" by Dionne Farris)

For once in my life

I won't let sorrow hurt me

Not like it's hurt me before

For once I have something

I know won't desert me

I'm not alone any more

For once I can say this is mine,

you can't take it

As long as I know I got love, I can make it

For once in my life

I have someone who needs me

Someone who needs me

Someone who needs me

For once in my life

Yeah, yeah, yeah

For once in my life

I won't let sorrow hurt me

Not like it's hurt me before

For once I have something

I know won't desert me

I'm not alone any more

For once I can say this is mine,

you can't take it

As long as I know I got love, I can make it

For once in my life

I have someone who needs me

Someone who needs me

Someone who needs me

Someone who needs me

("This Road" by Squeeze)

She sat at the dressing-room table

He flicked through the channels on cable

While talking of love in low whispers

Voices humming like dusty transistors

Talked about love

In concentrated tones,

they talked about love

- Deep down in the bones

- Talked about love

How it's built on pride,

they talked about love

- A roller-coaster ride

- Talked about love

This road is a lifetime long

Complete engagement

Unlimited passion

Searching with peace in my soul

She sat with her glass overflowing

He knew that his chances were glowing

Together they danced in the driveway

Lovers singing "I did it my way"

Talked about love

In concentrated tones,

they talked about love

- Deep down in the bones

- Talked about love

How it's built on pride,

they talked about love

- A roller-coaster ride

- Talked about love

This road is a lifetime long

Complete engagement

Unlimited passion

Searching with peace in my soul

Built without boundaries

Loving every single breath

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Audrey Wells

Audrey Wells (born April 29, 1960) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer.Wells was born in San Francisco, California, and worked as a disc jockey at San Francisco jazz radio station KJAZ FM. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley and UCLA. She has written a number of successful screenplays and has directed three for which she had created the script. Among her notable works is The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), both of which she also produced. Her works to date have been primarily comedies and/or romance films. Her 1999 film Guinevere was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.Wells co-wrote the script for the comedy The Game Plan. more…

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