Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1513 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-10-06
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish
• Dubbed in: Czech, Hungarian
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 111 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Kate Hudson twinkles as the heroine of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. She's a magazine writer assigned to date a guy, make all the mistakes girls make that drive guys away (being clingy, talking in baby-talk and so on) and records the process like a sociological experiment. However, the guy she picks-- Matthew McConaughey--is an advertising executive who's just bet that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days; if he succeeds, he'll win a huge account that will make his career. The set-up is completely absurd, but the collision of their efforts to woo and repel creates some pretty funny scenes. McConaughey's easy charm and Hudson's lightweight impishness play well together and the plot, though strictly Hollywood formula, chugs along efficiently. At moments Hudson seems to channel her mother, Goldie Hawn, to slightly unnerving effect. --Bret Fetzer

Synopsis
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.

From the Back Cover
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 Mark Ecclestone of Glamour applauds as "hugely entertaining".

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.

Customer Reviews

Nicely made, touching, but just a tad predictable
Ok. Here's the setup. A guy bets his boss that he can get any girl to fall in love with him. They challenge him to make good on his boast. In the mean time, an editor has told a journalist to research an article on 'How to lose a guy in 10 days' -- by doing it! And, yes, you guessed it: these two love-cynics lay eyes on each other, and the story begins. What follows is a series of attempts, loosely drawn from the book of the same name, by Kate Hudson's character, Andie Anderson, to get advertising executive Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey) to dump her, while Ben does everything he can to make her fall in love with him. In the end, they both do fall in love with each other, only to be heart-broken when their respective bets are revealed to each other by friends. Both are furious, and in a memorable anti-duet, sing to each other about how vain they think the other is, to a very large audience which completely misses the point. Finally, the couple are reconciled.

If you think you've heard this kind of thing before, then you're right. The bet idea is the central premise of Guys and Dolls (and, for that matter, She's All That, among many others). The underlying tension of two people who believe they don't care for each other but are in fact falling in love is from Much Ado about Nothing. The symmetry of both persons making bets is nice, but it is nowhere nearly as well developed as in Down with Love, which was released in the same year, though, oddly, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days earned four times as much at the box office, despite receiving poorer reviews.

The acting is fine, and some of the moments are truly cringe-worthy (deliberately). However, some of the scenes, such as the therapist, are a little rushed.

Where it all unravels is at the end. The climax is in principle attractive -- just as they recognise that they are truly in love, both learn about the other's bet, causing them to return to their earlier cynicism, only to finally fall into each other's arms at the end. Unfortunately, this particular climax is grindingly familiar, and there is no real attempt to find a twist on it to lift it from the purely predictable.

I enjoyed this film, but I found the ending a let-down. Maybe one to rent rather than buy?

One of the best rom-com's in years
It is your typical chick flick - gorgeous leading roles, quick-wit, emotional ups and downs that eventually end with the reuniting of the lead characters.
A truly great rom-com, I can guarantee any women who watches this will fall in love with it.

One of Kate Hudson's best!!!!!!!!!
This movie is about this young cool lady (HUDSON), who is part of a woman's weekly magazine and her collame is How to!
One of her subjects is o her rescent collmns is How to lose a guy i 10 days!
One night she meets this guy and she uses these anoying tricks to drive him away. One night on the 7th night they have a argument and they are about to breck up until he mentions cuples theopy. She relizes that he is special and she falls in love with him. However his scandal is that he has said to his boss that he can make any lady fall in love with him.
I loved this movie and my mum and me watch it all the time. The perfect CHICKFLICK EVER!
A bit corny but fun.