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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking. Characters drink -- beer, wine, cocktails, and cha. Parents Need to Know. Parents need to know that How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a romcom starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. It leans heavily into gender stereotypes and includes innuendo, sexual references, and mature content.
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- Donald Petrie
Feb 7, 2003 · How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: Directed by Donald Petrie. With Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, Annie Parisse. Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days.
- Donald Petrie
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- 3 min
3 days ago · Key Takeaways: “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” is a beloved romantic comedy set in New York City, exploring modern dating dynamics with a perfect blend of romance and humor. The movie’s success led to a resurgence of interest in romantic comedies, reminding audiences of the joy and escapism that this genre can bring. Table of Contents.
- The Players
- The Convoluted Set-Up
- Five-Minute Meet Cute Warning
- Ridiculous Things That Happen in Pursuit of Romance, Or Its Opposite
- The Illogical and Normative Way They Fall in Love
- But: Problems
- A Kind of Nothingy Ending If You Ask Me
- I Don't Really Know What to Say About This
- So, Is It good?
Andie Anderson (played by Kate Hudson) and Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey). Note that both names are alliterated. I'm already clapping. Andie is a journalist at Composuremagazine. Her job is to write the "How to" column. "A little hard work for a little hard butt." I'm dying. She is GAME for a CHALLENGE and will do ANYTHING for her JOB. Or, at...
Back at Composure, Andie and Jeannie (Annie Parisse) are accompanying a heartbroken Michelle (Kathryn Hahn <3, who told us once that being in this movie felt "a little dirty", we feel you) to a staff meeting. Michelle can't figure out what she's done wrong with the guy who just dumped her. Although she did cry the first time they had sex. OK, and s...
Judy Spears spies Andie across the room, and knows that she's working on the "How to Lose a Guy" story. She bets Ben that he can't make Andie fall in love with him by the time their client party happens. When is the party, you ask? Oh, it's in TEN DAYS. God I love rom-coms. Game on, folks.
Andie tries to put Ben off with stuffed toys and a pink blanket, which I actually find legitimately hilarious. Andie pretends she doesn't eat meat. Even though there's an obligatory shot of Andie chowing down on a sandwich so we know how Relatable she is! #veryrelatable. Andie gives Ben's tackle a special name: Princess Sophia. Mr. Masculinity Comp...
When they get to Ben's Staten Island home, Andie is melted by the sight of so many adorable children. Ben offers to change his nephew's diaper. What a guy, amirite, so goals, etc. Ben's super-sweet family rope Andie into a game of Bullshit: the trick to the game, he tells her, is "knowing how to read people." IS HE READING HER? Inexplicably, then t...
Cut to the night of the party. Andie looks like a very beautiful banana pudding. Mr. Boss Man decides to find out for himself if Ben has won the bet. "There isn't a diamond in the room that sparkles like a woman in love," he posits. Andie is so flustered that we know SHE DEF LOVES HIM. Ben has won. He has secured the lady as well as the big account...
Now that the truth is out, the two go about their business. Ben gets the diamond account; Andie quits her job. But her final column for Composureis about how she made the biggest mistake of her life. OMG. Ben reads it and is also like "OMG," prompting possibly the only high-speed motorcycle/cab chase in any romantic comedy ever.
But can they truly be happy together? Andie is on her way to D.C. for a job interview. Ben is like, "Don't follow your dreams! Stay here with me!" And she is like, "OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!" WTF. That's the end.
I'm going to go with: No. Too many weird assumptions about gender roles. But there's still something really satisfyingly goofy about it. I would watch it again, TBH.
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Feb 2, 2023 · love fern. “You’re So Vain”: An Oral History of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, and more look back on 20 years of love ferns and that yellow dress. By Ilana...
Feb 7, 2003 · Reviews. How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. Roger Ebert February 07, 2003. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. I am just about ready to write off movies in which people make bets about whether they will, or will not, fall in love. The premise is fundamentally unsound, since it subverts every love scene with a lying subtext.
