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How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days [2003]


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Kate Hudson twinkles as the heroine of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. She's a magazine writer assigned to date a guy, make all the mistakes girls make that drive guys away (being clingy, talking in baby-talk and so on) and records the process like a sociological experiment. However, the guy she picks-- Matthew McConaughey--is an advertising executive who's just bet that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days; if he succeeds, he'll win a huge account that will make his career. The set-up is completely absurd, but the collision of their efforts to woo and repel creates some pretty funny scenes. McConaughey's easy charm and Hudson's lightweight impishness play well together and the plot, though strictly Hollywood formula, chugs along efficiently. At moments Hudson seems to channel her mother, Goldie Hawn, to slightly unnerving effect. --Bret Fetzer


A real good chick flick
Review date: 2008-09-07 Rating: 10 out of 10

This film is so funny and also at the end very romantic. The chemistry betwwen Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey is really good and the acting is belivable. The story line is original and unique with parts that will make you laugh and parts that will make you want to hide under the cushion 'casue of the cringiness she causes to him.

The story is basiclly about a girl who is a journalist and wants to write more serious stuff but her boss says that she can't, she comes up with an idea "how to lose a guy in 10 days", then he on the other hand agrees to a bet with someone that he can take someone that loves him to a party. I won't tell any more.!! But it's a completely enjoyable film. Maybe not for families but for a night in, or if you feel low this definetly is the film for you.
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No hankies required
Review date: 2008-08-01 Rating: 8 out of 10

This is a good film, but I found parts of it strangely unenjoyable. Kate Hudson (Andie) plays a writer for a woman's magazine who sets out to date a man then do as many things as she can to get him to dump her. This is so she can then write an article entitled "how to lose a guy in 10 day."

By chance, Matthew McConaughey (Ben) makes a bet that in only 10 days he can make any woman fall in love with him and then bring her to a party for the launch of a diamond advertising campaign. If Ben can do this he gets to lead the advertising campaign. It is Ben's advertising rivals who choose Andie for him to try and make her love him.

Both play their parts well but there is so much negativity in the relationship from Andie and so much of Ben being treated like a doormat and putting up with it, that it became unenjoyable for me. The joke wore thin in other words and that was the films flaw for me.

Of course it improves when both actually do start to fall in love with each other when visiting Ben's family, who are genuinely loving and all of which suffer from terets! There are some well acted tender moments when love is realised and they both stop their deception, but they are locked on a collision course for destruction because the truth must come out!

It ends thankfully well, like most romantic films do, but no need for the tissues, just a sigh of relief! It is a good film well worth the watch but only 4 stars.


Nicely made, touching, but just a tad predictable
Review date: 2008-06-29 Rating: 8 out of 10

Ok. Here's the setup. A guy bets his boss that he can get any girl to fall in love with him. They challenge him to make good on his boast. In the mean time, an editor has told a journalist to research an article on 'How to lose a guy in 10 days' -- by doing it! And, yes, you guessed it: these two love-cynics lay eyes on each other, and the story begins. What follows is a series of attempts, loosely drawn from the book of the same name, by Kate Hudson's character, Andie Anderson, to get advertising executive Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey) to dump her, while Ben does everything he can to make her fall in love with him. In the end, they both do fall in love with each other, only to be heart-broken when their respective bets are revealed to each other by friends. Both are furious, and in a memorable anti-duet, sing to each other about how vain they think the other is, to a very large audience which completely misses the point. Finally, the couple are reconciled.

If you think you've heard this kind of thing before, then you're right. The bet idea is the central premise of Guys and Dolls (and, for that matter, She's All That, among many others). The underlying tension of two people who believe they don't care for each other but are in fact falling in love is from Much Ado about Nothing. The symmetry of both persons making bets is nice, but it is nowhere nearly as well developed as in Down with Love, which was released in the same year, though, oddly, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days earned four times as much at the box office, despite receiving poorer reviews.

The acting is fine, and some of the moments are truly cringe-worthy (deliberately). However, some of the scenes, such as the therapist, are a little rushed.

Where it all unravels is at the end. The climax is in principle attractive -- just as they recognise that they are truly in love, both learn about the other's bet, causing them to return to their earlier cynicism, only to finally fall into each other's arms at the end. Unfortunately, this particular climax is grindingly familiar, and there is no real attempt to find a twist on it to lift it from the purely predictable.

I enjoyed this film, but I found the ending a let-down. Maybe one to rent rather than buy?

One of the best rom-com's in years
Review date: 2008-03-03 Rating: 10 out of 10

It is your typical chick flick - gorgeous leading roles, quick-wit, emotional ups and downs that eventually end with the reuniting of the lead characters.
A truly great rom-com, I can guarantee any women who watches this will fall in love with it.

One of Kate Hudson's best!!!!!!!!!
Review date: 2008-02-21 Rating: 10 out of 10

This movie is about this young cool lady (HUDSON), who is part of a woman's weekly magazine and her collame is How to!
One of her subjects is o her rescent collmns is How to lose a guy i 10 days!
One night she meets this guy and she uses these anoying tricks to drive him away. One night on the 7th night they have a argument and they are about to breck up until he mentions cuples theopy. She relizes that he is special and she falls in love with him. However his scandal is that he has said to his boss that he can make any lady fall in love with him.
I loved this movie and my mum and me watch it all the time. The perfect CHICKFLICK EVER!
A bit corny but fun.

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Adam Goldberg
Matthew McConaughey
Annie Parisse
Kate Hudson
Kathryn Hahn

Creators:
Kate Hudson (Primary Contributor)
Matthew McConaughey (Primary Contributor)
Brian Alexander (Producer)
Christine Forsyth-Peters (Producer)
Brian Regan (Writer)
Burr Steers (Writer)
Jeannie Long (Writer)
Kristen Buckley (Writer)
Michele Alexander (Writer)

Director(s):

Recording label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
EAN: 5014437831132
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2003-10-06
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 111 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2003-02-07
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired)
Language: Arabic (Subtitled)
Language: Bulgarian (Subtitled)
Language: Czech (Subtitled)
Language: Danish (Subtitled)
Language: Dutch (Subtitled)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Finnish (Subtitled)
Language: Hungarian (Subtitled)
Language: Icelandic (Subtitled)
Language: Italian (Subtitled)
Language: Norwegian (Subtitled)
Language: Polish (Subtitled)
Language: Romanian (Subtitled)
Language: Swedish (Subtitled)
Language: Turkish (Subtitled)
Language: Czech (Dubbed)
Language: Hungarian (Dubbed)

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