How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
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| How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | |
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 One of them is lying. So is the other. |
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| Directed by | Donald Petrie |
| Produced by | Robert Evans Christine Forsyth-Peters Lynda Obst Richard Vane |
| Written by | Kristen Buckley Brian Regan Burr Steers |
| Starring | Kate Hudson Matthew McConaughey |
| Music by | David Newman |
| Cinematography | John Bailey |
| Editing by | Debra Neil-Fisher |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (USA) United International Pictures GmbH (Germany) United International Pictures (Other countries) |
| Release date(s) | February 7, 2003 |
| Running time | 116 minutes |
| Country |  United States Germany |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50,000,000 (estimate) |
| Gross revenue | $177,085,826 (worldwide) |
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a 2003 romantic comedy film. The film is directed by Donald Petrie and stars Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. It is based on a short cartoon book of the same name by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long.
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[edit] Plot
The film tells the story of journalist Andie Anderson (Hudson), who works for Composure magazine as the "How to..." girl and is getting bored, wishing that she could write more pieces about things that she considers important, such as politics, economics, religion, poverty, etc. She soon finds herself writing an article called "How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days." Andie tells her boss that she will date a man and do all the things that women tend to do wrong, when they are in relationships, in order to be granted more freedom in her writing.
At the same time, advertising executive Benjamin Barry (McConaughey) tells his boss that he can make any woman fall in love with him in just ten days and can bring her as a date to the company's ball. If he succeeds, he will get to be in charge of the advertising for the new diamond company account headed by his boss.
As misfortune would have it, Andie and Ben meet that night and start their quests. Neither reveals their true intentions, which leads to strange goings-on in their relationship. Andie puts Ben through many various experiences in order to make him break up with her very quickly, but Ben sticks around in order to fulfull his deed in making her fall in love with him. Examples of what Andie does include being very clingy, interfering on guys night with Ben and his friends, and taking him to a Celine Dion concert instead of a basketball game. Ben stays with her despite everything and both people reveal their true motives at the end, but their initial desires have changed.
The film also contains a romantic subplot involving Andie's co-worker Michelle Rubin (Kathryn Hahn) and a man named Mike (Justin Peroff).
[edit] Box office
Though the movie was largely panned by critics, it earned over $20 million in its first weekend. Its final gross totaled over $100 million in the U.S. and another $71 million overseas, marking a career high for Kate Hudson which she still has yet to surpass. The movie was also a success on video and DVD in its July 2003 release.
[edit] Trivia
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- Gwyneth Paltrow was originally going to star as Andie.
- Matthew McConaughey did almost all of his own motorcycle stunts.
- Justin Peroff, the drummer of Canadian rock band Broken Social Scene, plays the role of "Mike."
- The last time Matthew McConaughey and Adam Goldberg were in a film together was in 1999 in EDtv and in 1993 in Dazed and Confused.
- The soundtrack was composed by Gin Blossoms with the track "Follow You Down", which was off the 1996 album Congratulations… I'm Sorry.
- McConaughey and Hudson would also star together in the 2008 movie Fool's Gold
- Both Andie and Ben's names are alliterations, their first and last names start with the same letter
- In the movie, the Sacramento Kings and the New York Knicks are the two teams in the Championship. Ironically the Kings didn't make it to the NBA Finals in 2003, and the Knicks didn't even make the playoffs.
- Marvin Hamlisch plays himself in this movie and is asked to play on his piano Carly Simon's song "You're So Vain". He protests that it isn't one of his songs, however he did write Carly's other big hit "Nobody Does It Better" for The Spy Who Loved Me
- During the diamond event you can hear the "Moon River" song from Breakfast at Tiffany's
- In A Lot Like Love, Kathryn Hahn plays a character named Michelle too. In that movie her husband's name was Michael. In this movie she ends up with a guy named Mike.
- In the scene after the Boys' Night where Ben suggests Couple's therapy to Andie, she bids goodbye waving her right hand. But in the next shot of the same event from another angle, she is seen waving her left hand.
[edit] External links
| Preceded by "The Recruit" |
List of Box Office #1 Movies February 9, 2003 |
Succeeded by "Daredevil" |
