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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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The hottest couple to come down the pike recently has been Frodo and Sam. Hudson and McConaughey rate higher on the spark-o-meter.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
02/07/03
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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a shallow, convoluted love story with some cheap laughs wrapped around an infomercial

Full Review Source: Houston Community Newspapers | comment Comment
02/07/03
Gary Brown
Gary Brown
Houston Community Newspapers

A novel concept...botched with juvenile execution.

Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | comment Comment
02/07/03
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

full of potent one-liners... but they're mired in a plot that constantly teeters between innocuous silliness and flat-out absurdity: You might swear you saw this same screwy scenario in a 1964 Sandra Dee/Bobby Darin movie on the Late Late Show.

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
02/07/03
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

Hits all the spots that most successful romantic comedies do, and has some decent laughs mixed in.

Full Review Source: Supercala.com | comment Comment
02/07/03
John Venable
John Venable
Supercala.com

Should have been called How to Lose an Audience in 10 Minutes, because that's how long it takes to alienate you with its overly convoluted premise.

Full Review Source: Countingdown.com | comment Comment
02/07/03
Larry Carroll
Larry Carroll
Countingdown.com

The results are supposed to be funny, but are instead painful.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
02/07/03
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
02/07/03
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
02/07/03
E! Online

When his mother whispers in Andie's ear, "Don't you break his heart," the double-double-cross plot takes a backseat to the really in-love plot. They play cards, ride his motorcycle, get splashed in a puddle, have sex in the bathroom. She's so cute, he's s

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
02/07/03
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

The picture is entertaining, and it will probably be a big hit, but it's an opportunity wasted.

Full Review Source: Slate | comment Comment
02/07/03
David Edelstein
David Edelstein
Slate

The biggest challenge to viewing 10 Days is deciding whether to think of its lead characters as 'despicable swine' or 'vile dung-weasels.'

Full Review Source: New Times | comment Comment
02/07/03
Gregory Weinkauf
Gregory Weinkauf
New Times

Days is a watered-down, lightweight version of War of the Roses made for people who still think Friends is funny.

Full Review Source: Planet Sick-Boy | comment Comment
02/07/03
Jon Popick
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy

Clumsy, overlong.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
02/07/03
Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman
New York Post
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days dishes up a healthy serving of the fun that should be -- and too often isn't -- at the heart of a good romantic comedy.

Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | comment Comment
02/07/03
Margaret A. McGurk
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer

The picture is actually watchable.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
02/07/03
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail

Want to get rid of that guy who's driving you crazy? Drag him to this lame romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
02/07/03
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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I am just about ready to write off movies in which people make bets about whether they will, or will not, fall in love.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
02/07/03
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Riddled with cliché plot devices and dialogue that's as superficial as the glossy fashion magazine the lead character writes for.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
02/07/03
Stephanie Cook Broadhurst
Stephanie Cook Broadhurst
Christian Science Monitor

If How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days turns out to be a $75 million hit as I suspect, then it will no longer matter if the same script is dusted off and the names changed to protect the innocent, because it’s the audiences that are guilty.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
02/07/03
Erik Childress
Erik Childress
eFilmCritic.com
 
 
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