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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

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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.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] some sex-related material

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Comedies

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. [More]

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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Should be retitled How to Lose a Movie in 10 Minutes.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
02/07/03
San Diego Union-Tribune

Button-cute.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
02/07/03
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

A modest Hawn-like romance for a new generation.

Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
02/07/03
Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

A funny premise in search of a movie.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Daily News | comment Comment
02/07/03
Gary Thompson
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News

A shrill, unfunny litany of single-folk stereotypes that insults men and women with equal abandon.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
02/07/03
Steve Schneider
Steve Schneider
Orlando Weekly

Guys, if the gal in your life insists that you take her to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, don't panic. If she really wanted to dump you, she'd insist on Deliver Us From Eva.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
02/07/03
Jay Boyar
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel

A formulaic romantic comedy that percolates slightly with caustic wit before devolving into idiocy, it's potty humor.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
02/07/03
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

Trite, contrived, but often entertaining.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
02/07/03
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
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How to Lose a Guy shows that Hudson's Oscar-nominated performance in 2000's Almost Famous wasn't a fluke.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
02/07/03
Sue Pierman
Sue Pierman
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

This material requires a great deal more suspension of disbelief than even this hokey genre normally demands.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
02/07/03
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days may have tinkered with the rules, but it's still playing the same old game.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
02/07/03
Loey Lockerby
Loey Lockerby
Kansas City Star

Has enough laughs and silly subplots to keep you looking, but in the end it's the work done by the two leads that saves the film.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
02/07/03
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

McConaughey is an actor of limited range, but this time he has a film that fits firmly into his abilities.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
02/07/03
Louis B. Hobson
Louis B. Hobson
Jam! Movies

After a frothy start, How to Lose (an apt abbreviation) becomes a one-joke comedy of slapstick suffering.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
02/07/03
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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A sure delight for both guys and gals.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
02/07/03
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News

You not only have to be seriously testosterone- deprived to survive this film without embarrassment, you have to buy a romantic premise so ridiculously contrived that even Dr. Ruth might suspect someone was pulling her little leg.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
02/07/03
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is not unpleasant. It's just dull.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
02/07/03
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Lackluster.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
02/07/03
Ricardo Baca
Ricardo Baca
Denver Post

The movie grows formulaic and clumsy in its last third, but what you feel, sitting in a packed theater, is the spark between Hudson and the audience.

Full Review Source: Contra Costa Times | comment Comment
02/07/03
Mary F. Pols
Mary F. Pols
Contra Costa Times

It goes on too long and is trapped by too many cliches.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
02/07/03
Bridget Byrne
Bridget Byrne
Boxoffice Magazine
 
 
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