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The Awful Truth (1937): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Awful Truth is a 1937 comedy, romance film directed by Leo McCarey. It scores 7.6 on IMDb, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, 87 on Metacritic, 7.2 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 76 while Metacritic critics give it 87, a gap of 11 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 5 of 73 films from 1937 in our catalog and number 164 of 3,051 comedy films.

Billed cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont.

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