How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days

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<tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 536 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="142cf3a30.png" border=0 width="243" height="163" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="142ef3a30.png" border=0 width="243" height="163" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="142df36c0.png" border=0 width="243" height="364" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="142ff3a20.png" border=0 width="243" height="162" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="575"><div> <B>How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Wingdings 2" ><B>êê</B></FONT><B> (PG-13)</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Reviewed By Brenda Sexton</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="549" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="545"><div> Dump her!</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="580" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Andie Anderson:  Kate Hudson</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="268"><div> Spears:  Michael Michelle</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Benjamin Barry:  Matthew McConaughey</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="268"><div> Green:  Shalom Harlow</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="305"><div> Tony:  Adam Goldberg</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="268"><div> Michelle:  Kathryn Hahn</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="305"><div> Director:  Donald Petrie</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="268"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="268" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>30 Second Bottom Line</B>: A beautiful, hip young woman is challenged by her co-workers to see if, despite all her wonderful features, she can make a guy ditch her within 10 days.  Meanwhile, the guy she picks as her victim has just made a bet with his co-workers that he can make a girl fall in love with him in 10 days.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Story Line:</B>  Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson) radiates charm, confidence, brains and beauty.  Unlike her sad sap girlfriend Michelle (Kathryn Hahn) who begins this movie crushed like a bug from the pain of another failed 10-day relationship, Andie believes she knows what sends guys running. "You cried after you had sex with him the first time?" she asks Michelle incredulously.  "You kept calling him even when he didn't call you back?"  Women do indeed do stupid, desperate things that make guys, even ones who are insanely attracted to them, run for the hills. An interesting premise for a movie.</div> <bR> <div> As the "How To" writer for "Composure Magazine" (a k a "Cosmopolitan?") Andie is given the assignment to find a dating prospect, get him interested in her, and then drive him away with </div> <bR> <div> desperate moves.  Out one evening with her conspiring co-workers, she spots Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey) in a crowded bar.  Handsome and charming and having just made a bet to find a woman who will fall in love with him within 10 days, they are a perfect match.  They immediately click and an hour later they are smooching in his apartment.  When Andie leaves her purse there and he finds two NBA playoff tickets for the next night, he is more than smitten-this is a great girl and this will be a great 10 days!</div> <bR> <div> Andie's antics start the next night at Madison Square Garden.  With just seconds left on the clock and the score tied, she demands that Ben immediately get her a soda with no ice.  When he runs, fetches it and returns with 3 seconds remaining on the clock, she sends him back because it's not diet.  Her relationship-killing maneuvers continue over the next few days with a bevy of bad moves. She decorates his apartment on day two with lots of cuddly pooh-bears and frilly linens, while relentlessly talking baby talk to him.  Day three she leaves twenty or more voice mails on his machine spaced just minutes apart, suspiciously wondering where he is.  At the movies that night, she has to have a relationship discussion with him during the movie, not only interrupting his viewing it, but everyone else around them too.  He's finally going to get a night off from her annoying behavior, but she shows up uninvited at his all-male poker party with an obnoxious little dog, that pees on the card table, while she reveals what cards different players are holding.  When she gets a negative reaction from Ben, she throws a hissy fit, acting like an insane person in front of all his friends.  Andie sure knows all the wrong moves.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Tell Me More About It</B>:  Why would any gorgeous hunk like Matthew McConaughey stick around for more obnoxious behavior from a girl like this?  The truth is that it doesn't take much for a girl to come on too strong with a guy she likes in the first ten days.  In fact, in any normal situation, just one of Andie's antics would probably do it.  Two for sure.  When we get more than that, and the moves become more and more obnoxious, the movie makes no sense and isn't even funny.  Andie is over the top, and Ben (or anybody) would only stay if they had another agenda.  Subtlety is not to be found in the core of this movie and essentially it is the subtle, inappropriate moves women make that drive men away.  </div> <bR> <div> The two main actors here are great.  Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey are not only pros; they have great chemistry on screen.  I wanted to like this movie, and did for the first 15 minutes or so.  After its initial slick, fun start, it unfortunately became painful and relentless, losing its humor and even its message.  Instead of being about what women do wrong in dating, this movie is about how much torture a man can withstand to win a bet.  </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> Rating PG-13 (sexual references)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> Brenda D. Sexton © 2003</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <A HREF="Brenda@reelmoviecritic.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Brenda@reelmoviecritic.com"><U><U>Brenda@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Mini Filmography </div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> Kate Hudson:  <A HREF="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2000/id573.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2000/id57"><U><B>"Almost Famous"</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Kathryn Hahn:  "Flushed"</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 39 WIDTH="329"><div> Matthew McConaughey: <A HREF="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2001/id1756.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2001/id17"><U> </U></A><A HREF="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2001/id1756.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2001/id17"><U><B>"The Wedding Planner"</B></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="243"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="39" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="243" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 39 ><NOBR><div> Adam Goldberg:  <A HREF="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2001/id1846.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2001/id18"><U><B>"A Beautiful Mind"</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="243"><div> Donald Petrie: <A HREF="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2000/id810.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2000/id81"><U> </U></A><A HREF="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2000/id810.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/2000/id81"><U><B>"Miss Congeniality"</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>