If Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey weren't so darn easy on the eyes, the only thing this 'battle of the sexes' film would be losing is its audience.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
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Reviews Counted:146
Fresh:63
Rotten:83
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Good premise, dull execution.
Theatrical Release:Feb 7, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $105,765,605
Synopsis:
Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson), Composure Magazine's "How-To" columnist, has a very unusual assignment and a quick deadline. She has to write a firsthand account of all the things that women do to...
Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson), Composure Magazine's "How-To" columnist, has a very unusual assignment and a quick deadline. She has to write a firsthand account of all the things that women do to inadvertently drive men away…and she's got to do it in 10 days. Now she's on a mission to find a guy, get him to fall in love with her, then make all the classic dating mistakes so he'll dump her. Too bad Andie's target is ad agency hottie, Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey), who has just made a high-stakes bet with his boss that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Does a faux relationship based on deception stand a chance in a world where everyone says they're looking for honesty? You can bet on it!
Paramount Pictures presents "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," a Robert Evans/Christine Peters Production and a Lynda Obst Production, a Donald Petrie Film, starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Donald Petrie, from a screenplay by Kristen Buckley & Brian Regan and Burr Steers, the film is based upon the book by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long. Lynda Obst, Robert Evans and Christine Peters are the producers and Richard Vane is the executive producer. Also starring in the film are Adam Goldberg, Michael Michele, Shalom Harlow, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Klein, Kathryn Hahn, Thomas Lennon, Celia Weston and Annie Parisse.
Paramount Pictures is part of the entertainment operations of Viacom Inc., one of the world's largest entertainment and media companies and a leader in the production, promotion and distribution of entertainment, news, sports and music.
The film is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for some sex-related material.
Starring: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Thomas Lennon, Adam Goldberg
Starring: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Thomas Lennon, Adam Goldberg, Michael Michele
Director: Donald Petrie
Director: Donald Petrie
Screenwriter: Kristen Buckley, Brian Regan
Producer: Lynda Obst, Robert Evans, Christine Peters
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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Reviews for How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
If the movie provides no new insight into the contrasting behavior of men and women or the perils of postmodern urban dating, falling well shy of the not-too-high standard set by 'Sex and the City' on both fronts, it does have its tart, fizzy moments.
Hudson needs a little more time to hone her comedic skills before she can charm us through all the watery spots in the film's hot-laughs and cold-jokes script.
Resorts to the kinds of cliches that were so yesterday two weeks ago.
A nice enough diversion when the theaters are filled with weightier Oscar contenders.
Kate Hudson's impressive comic flair almost saves this implausible romantic comedy.
This material requires a great deal more suspension of disbelief than even this hokey genre normally demands.
This is a movie that never aspires to be anything more than dimwitted fun, then falls on its aspirations.
After a frothy start, How to Lose (an apt abbreviation) becomes a one-joke comedy of slapstick suffering.
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