Actress Cheryl Hines To Star In Movie "The Ugly Truth"

March 18, 2008 12:12 p.m. EST

Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Busy actress Cheryl Hines from "Curb Your Enthusiasm," is joining Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler in the romantic comedy "The Ugly Truth." Hines will play a self-possessed news anchor on a morning show where Heigl's character is a producer. The film is a Lakeshore Entertainment movie.

Butler will play the chauvinistic co-worker who puts Heigl's character through a series of outrageous tests to prove his theories on relationships and help her find true love.

Hines recently finished her directorial debut with the indie movie "Serious Moonlight," and will next be seen on the big screen in "Henry Poole is Here."

She will also be voicing a character in the animated "Space Chimps."

"The Ugly Truth" reunites director Robert Luketic and writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kristen Smith, the team behind "Legally Blonde."