How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 116m
Director: Donald Petrie
Cast: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Bebe Neuwirth
Synopsis:
A women's magazine journalist who writes the 'How to' page is prompted by her friend's deplorable romantic track record into floating a radical notion: rather than dispensing top tips, she will highlight the means by which young females can guarantee that their putative partner will be scared off within days. Meanwhile an advertising copyist in search of a new contract bets he can make any girl fall in love with him within ten days.
Review:
This most contrived of premises inevitably resolves itself into a slew of cringe-making episodes in which Miss Hudson behaves embarrassingly, at least for a metropolitan US audience around the turn of the millennium. She is in fact rather good, but this has nothing to do with the script, and even less to do with the hideous rom-com colour scheme and extended running time. Strictly for undemanding female under-30s.
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 116m
Director: Donald Petrie
Cast: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Bebe Neuwirth
Synopsis:
A women's magazine journalist who writes the 'How to' page is prompted by her friend's deplorable romantic track record into floating a radical notion: rather than dispensing top tips, she will highlight the means by which young females can guarantee that their putative partner will be scared off within days. Meanwhile an advertising copyist in search of a new contract bets he can make any girl fall in love with him within ten days.
Review:
This most contrived of premises inevitably resolves itself into a slew of cringe-making episodes in which Miss Hudson behaves embarrassingly, at least for a metropolitan US audience around the turn of the millennium. She is in fact rather good, but this has nothing to do with the script, and even less to do with the hideous rom-com colour scheme and extended running time. Strictly for undemanding female under-30s.
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 116m
Director: Donald Petrie
Cast: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Bebe Neuwirth
Synopsis:
A women's magazine journalist who writes the 'How to' page is prompted by her friend's deplorable romantic track record into floating a radical notion: rather than dispensing top tips, she will highlight the means by which young females can guarantee that their putative partner will be scared off within days. Meanwhile an advertising copyist in search of a new contract bets he can make any girl fall in love with him within ten days.
Review:
This most contrived of premises inevitably resolves itself into a slew of cringe-making episodes in which Miss Hudson behaves embarrassingly, at least for a metropolitan US audience around the turn of the millennium. She is in fact rather good, but this has nothing to do with the script, and even less to do with the hideous rom-com colour scheme and extended running time. Strictly for undemanding female under-30s.