| | | One of Them is Lying. So is the Other.
Features: DVD, Deluxe Edition
Oscar nominee Kate Hudson (Almost Famous) and Matthew McConaughey (A Time to Kill) give the battle of the sexes an outrageously unexpected twist in the runaway comedy hit the Daily News applauds as "Hilarious"!As the "How to..." columnist for trendy Composure Magazine, Andie Anderson (Hudson) agrees to write a first-hand account about what it takes to drive a man out of your life...in exactly 10 days. At the same time, eligible ad agency bachelor Benjamin Barry (McConaughey) accepts a high-stakes bet that he can lure any woman into falling head-over-heels in love with him...also in 10 days. The resulting romantic head-on collision ignites a series of deliriously comic deceptions that prove when it comes to true love...your heart cannot tell a lie. From the director of Miss Congeniality, it's the year's most wildly entertaining romantic romp, in the comedy smash David Sheehan of CBS-TV hails as "The ultimate chick-flick for guys!"
"Delightfully funny and fun all the way." David Sheehan, CBS-TV
"I loved this movie and so will you!" Jeffrey K. Howard, ABC News
"...a laugh machine, with jokes building on jokes and situations escalating into higher degrees of comic absurdity." Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"A fabulously fresh and totally entertaining battle of the sexes..." Shawn Edwards, FOX-TV
"A sure delight for both guys and gals." Tom Long, Detroit News
Editor's Note
Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson) decides to spice up her How-To column in Composure Magazine by venturing out into the Manhattan singles market to see if she can make a guy fall for her, and then get him to dump her within 10 days. Simultaneously, advertising executive Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey) makes a bet with his boss that he can meet a woman and have her fall in love with him within 10 days. Naturally the two of them come together, and, oblivious to each other's wagers, they quickly bond. But when Andie turns off her charms and turns on the dumping tactics, Benjamin must do all he can not to be repulsed by her so that he can win his side of the bet. With Andie unable to comprehend why she can't rid herself of her guy, and with Benjamin frustrated at Andie's peculiar behavior, the two of them begin down the inexorable path toward genuine romance. This charming romantic comedy, based on the book HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS: THE UNIVERSAL DON'TS OF DATING by Michele Alexander and Jeanie Long, features plenty of on-screen chemistry between Hudson and McConaughey. For Hudson, her role in HOW TO LOSE A GUY is vaguely reminiscent of characters played by her mom, Goldie Hawn.
| Features | 5 Deleted Scenes With Optional Director's Audio Commentary | | Audio Commentary By Director Donald Petrie | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | Audio: French, Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Featurettes: How To Make A Movie In 2 Years, Why The Sexes Batlle, & Girls Night Out | | Interactive Menus | | Music Video: "Somebody Like You" By Keith Urban | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days - Deluxe Edition - DVD Review By: Luigi Bastardo - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 8/18/2009 4:04 AM | | Sometimes I must remind myself that I am a man. And, being one of those human male critters, I enjoy certain manly things — like watching girly movies. In this case, I sat down and check out the new Deluxe Edition of How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. I had never seen How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days before. It came out in 2003, a time in which I was so clinically depressed that the last thing I wanted to see was the Hollywood façade of happiness. Recently, my fiancée tried to get me to watch her copy of said movie. I refused — on the grounds that it was a full frame pan-and-scan copy....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 8/18/2009 |
| Running Time: 115 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 142794 | | UPC: 00097361427942 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
MTV Award (2003) | | | Kate Hudson, Nominee, Best Female Performance |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...The two stars, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, have a prickly, hot-and-cold chemistry..." 02/07/2003 p.E19USA Today
"...Hudson is charming and her comic timing is dead-on..." 02/07/2003 p.13D Sight and Sound
"...There are some well observed moments in HOW TO LOSE A GUY....There's also some nicely understated satire about magazine publishing and digs at the shallowness of celebrity journalism....The supporting cast is strong..." 05/01/2003 p.50 ReelViews 7 of 10
One could easily make the argument that How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a perfectly acceptable diversion. Kate Hudson's Andie Anderson and Matthew McConaughey's Ben Barry are both affable individuals and, when the script allows it, there are fitful sparks between them. Yet I can't bring myself to recommend the movie. Why? What's missing? Simple: the romance. This movie is so intent upon getting cheap laughs and putting the protagonists in uncomfortable situations that it forgets they're supposed to be falling in love. Even though they don't know it, we should be able to sense it. But it's not there. So when, in the dwindling minutes, the filmmakers recognize that a happy ending is needed, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days lets loose with a belated avalanche of hearts and flowers that radiates artificiality...From time-to-time, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days has a little flavor of War of the Roses, but the movie doesn't have the courage to go more than a little distance down the path traveled by the Danny DeVito film...Bubbly actress Kate Hudson has proven herself to be very good at one kind of role, but with a shockingly limited range. For a vivid example of this, contrast her wonderful work in Almost Famous with her one-note collapse in The Four Feathers. Fortunately, lightweight parts such as this one are well within her capabilities, and she acquits herself admirably as Andie. Matthew McConaughey makes for a decent match. His good looks deflect most criticisms about his acting ability. But the problems with this movie have nothing to do with the leads, or with the sporadic nature of the sexual tension between them. Instead, they're more basic. I would be among the first to argue that, in a romantic comedy, the storyline is not everything. The problem is that, in movies like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, it's closer to nothing. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 5 of 10
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. Characters are nice when they want to be mean, or mean when they want to be nice. The easiest thing at the movies is to sympathize with two people who are falling in love. The hardest thing is to sympathize with two people who are denying their feelings, misleading each other, and causing pain to a trusting heart. This is comedy only by dictionary definition. In life, it is unpleasant, and makes the audience sad...Unless, of course, the characters are thoroughgoing rotters in the first place, as in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (1988), in which Steve Martin and Michael Caine make a $50,000 bet on who will be the first to con the rich American played by Glenne Headley. They deserve their comeuppance, and we enjoy it. "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" is not, alas, pitched at that modest level of sophistication, and provides us with two young people who are like pawns in a sex game for the developmentally shortchanged...He works at an ad agency. She works for a magazine that is Cosmopolitan, spelled a different way. She pitches her editor on an article about how to seduce a guy and then drive him away in 10 days. He pitches his boss on an idea that involves him being able to get a woman to fall in love with him in 10 days...Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the Witness Protection Program. If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film. - Roger Ebert
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