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Two New Yorkers fight the battle of the sexes to a standstill (without entirely realizing it) in this romantic comedy. Andie (Kate Hudson) is a young journalist who longs to cover political stories, b... read more read more...ut in the meantime she finds herself writing for a women's magazine called Composure, where her editor Lana Jong (Bebe Neuwirth) has her writing a fluffy advice column. After hearing of the latest dating laments of her relationship-challenged friend Michelle (Kathryn Hahn), Andie sells Lana on the idea of writing a piece on the things women do to alienate the men they love, which she'll demonstrate by winning and then driving away a man in a mere ten days. Meanwhile, Ben (Matthew McConaughey) is an advertising man who wants to land a prestige diamond account at his firm. Ben is competing with his pals, Spears (Michael Michele) and Green (Shalom Harlow), for the assignment, so Ben tells his boss Phillip Warren (Robert Klein) that he's the man for the job because he understands the fair sex so well he can make any woman fall for him in less than two weeks. As fate would have it, Andie and Ben end up choosing one another for their mutual assignments, with neither knowing about each other's secret agenda as Ben strives to hold on to Andie while she does everything in her power to annoy him. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days was loosely based on the self-help book of the same name (subtitled The Universal Don't of Dating) written by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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DVD Release Date: July 1, 2003

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  • December 6, 2011
    How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is yet another awful romantic comedy. I thought the film had a promising start, but the film falls apart. Matthew McConaughey is a pretty good actor, but I think he's wrecking his career with all the bad rom-coms that he's starred in. He's just not ro... read moremantic comedy material. This film is pretty sloppy in the way its comedic elements flowed. I laughed a few times, I'll admit, but after the credits roll, I realized that despite a promising start, this romantic comedy is simply just like the others, and it becomes predictable by the second half. One day I would like to see a romantic comedy that really differs from all the other ones, and doesn't use any predictable derivative cliché to create its "story". Though this film had a few funny bits, the film wasn't good, and in the end suffered the same fate as so many other romantic comedies. This is an awful film that is absolute misfire for a romantic comedy. The cast is terrible here and with a poor script, poor directing, it ensures that How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a poorly made film with nothing to offer. A boring, predictable film with minor laughs doesn't do anything for the film, and the script is so bad that it just sinks this film even further. A poorly made film that just doesn't cut it. This film is garbage and everyone involved in this film should be ashamed of themselves. As far as scrapping the bottom of the barrel of clichéd ideas, this film hits the mark, and ends up being a terrible film in the process.
  • December 3, 2011
    Hudson and McConaughey have chemistry together but the plot falls a bit short like in most rom-coms.
  • August 29, 2011
    It was predictable but I found this quite entertaining as well.
  • June 24, 2011
    One of my all time favourite films! Kate Hudson is fantastic in this film!
  • April 24, 2011
    Great movie about finding your true love :) Matthew & Kate were great in this movie :) One of my favorite movies that I love to quote :) Love the love fern :) Don't forget to frost yourself :) :) :)
  • March 6, 2011
    I'll get alot of smack for this, but I really like this movie. One of the best, and one of my favorite rom coms.
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    January 27, 2010
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    Enjoyable, and besides, it doesn't rely on slapstick humor! It's all natural!
  • January 10, 2010
    It's a romantic comedy, what else can be said?
  • October 1, 2009
    ...or how to lose the will to live in ten minutes!
    A horrible clichéd romance film about two very 2 dimensional and quite hateful beautiful people who fall in love unconvincingly! Calling it a chick flick is an insult to women! Stick knives in your eyes before watching!
  • August 25, 2009
    A decent comedy as a girl tries to prove any girl can get a guy to ditch her, while the guy is out to prove he can get anyone to fall in love with him in 10 days. A few funny moments about the do's and don'ts of dating.

Critic Reviews


Rex Reed
March 6, 2003
Rex Reed, New York Observer

More an exercise in how to lose an audience in 10 minutes. Full Review

Jonathan Rosenbaum
February 14, 2003
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Both lovers are duplicitous creeps -- in a perverse way they're made for each other. Full Review

Peter Travers
February 13, 2003
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

When a chick flick goes wrong -- and this one hits a dead end in hell -- it's a wipeout.

Richard Roeper
February 10, 2003
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

This tortured premise to get them together and the things they go through, every minute of it just lies flat on the screen. Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan
February 7, 2003
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

Isn't as bad as it looks.

Ann Hornaday
February 7, 2003
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

Resorts to the kinds of cliches that were so yesterday two weeks ago. Full Review

Claudia Puig
February 7, 2003
Claudia Puig, USA Today

Too light on laughs and too heavy on predictable moments. Full Review

Peter Howell
February 7, 2003
Peter Howell, Toronto Star

For once, here's a screen couple that easily adds up. Full Review

Bruce Newman
February 7, 2003
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News

This is a movie that never aspires to be anything more than dimwitted fun, then falls on its aspirations. Full Review

Mick LaSalle
February 7, 2003
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

It's about as close to French farce as romantic comedies get, and the closer the better. Full Review

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    • Andie Anderson: No I didn't Ben, cause you can't lose something you never had!

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