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Here's Katherine Heigl's Version of 'Bounty Hunter'

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A few weeks ago, a poster for a new Katherine Heigl movie appeared, and it highly suggested that Heigl basically remade her Ugly Truth co-star's Bounty Hunter for some reason. Today: a trailer! And confirmation that, yeah, that's basically what's happened here. Except now Bounty Hunter has a wacky family, and is a lady.

Not to nitpick, but: why isn't Heigl playing every member of her family, à la The Nutty Professor. A thin layer of wrinkled prosthetics is sometimes the line between "good" and "great."

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