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The mom is a ludicroulsy ugly woman


I guess they had an ugly character so they wanted an ugly actress, but what the hell...she looks like a man!
Even her dreadful looking halfman husband looks good next to her. Was she supposed to be a transgender?
No way somebody that ugly can have cute kids like those!
I think it was a very poor casting choice.
Also, not to stereotype, but usually the uglier outside the prettier inside.
Ugly people like that woman would not judge others like she does in the whole movie.
Look in the mirror and shut up, monster!

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I didn't think the mother was that bad of a looking person, I was a lot more turned off by her snobbery, stuck up attitude though

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Yes that was part of her appeal, for me it went hand in hand with her looks.

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I hated both Buck's brother and his wife. No redeeming qualities and they remind me of the ugly Midwestern types that come out to California and bitch how "back home" is so much better.

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I bet that his wife took it in the pooper that's the only reason he stuck around for that ugly hag.

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That's always a valid reason......

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^^^LMAO

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I thought Buck's brother Bob was an alright character, he did seem to go along with everything Cindy wants and strikes me as a bit of a pushover.

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I thought her hair was the problem. Most of the film hairstyles are awful.

But her looks aren't great in other hairstyles. So there goes that theory.

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He was a cow. And a bad mom and a horrible wife

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That sums it up!

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Strange casting choice indeed- There is movie Ugly and then there is just inexcusably ugly

I just checked out her IMDB page and it scared me to death, Its an array of headshots with a range of glasses on or glasses off same background and Ginger hair

Her credits as well suggest she has been an extra for the bulk of her career in the last few credits she played

Mikvah Attendant
Judge (Presumably non speaking)
Receptionist
Charlie's Mom
Woman Witness

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Oh my God why did you send me to that page???
Whyyyy?
I want to poke my eyes out now!
That parade of headshots looks like a creepy horror likeThe Ring. I bet that in seven days we're gonna be dead after watching those.

On that same imdb page there is an ad for one of these clickbait site with a picture of "The Nun". Let me tell you that Nun pic is by far outdone and outclassed in scariness by those headshots.
The horror...the horror...

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WHAT A HORRIBLE THREAD.🙄

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She wasn’t that bad, dude

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She was that bad a dude.

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I've always maintained that the mother was ugly in UB. But It's kinda a nice change from most movie's casting. It's more difficult for me to relate to a movie mother that looks like a model. I grew up in the 80's when mothers looked like the UB mother.

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That must have been one traumatic childhood...

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It's the god awful hair and wardrobe.

Other than that, she was OK.

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I've looked at dozens of images of her, and she is not a good looking woman. I can't put my finger on why, but I have to agree.

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And in this movie she is incredibly so, along with the way she acts with her kids, husband, Buck etc, she is just repulsive.

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Are we that beat down by society that all female roles need to be played by sex symbols? The actress obviously got the role because she could do cold mannered quite well. I think that the school principal was overdoing it in terms of being unattractive complete with wart but got the general principle.

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Are we that beat down by society that all female roles need to be played by sex symbols?

Yes.

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