Showing on Channel 4 tonight at 10pm
In this battle of the sexes comedy, Kate Hudson plays a magazine journalist who sets out to get a guy to dump her within ten days as research for an article she’s writing. What she doesn’t realise is that the advertising executive she picks for the experiment (Matthew McConaughey) has his own agenda: to get a woman to fall in love with him in 10 days
I’m sure if a woman really wanted to lose a guy, she could pull enough turn-offs out of the bag in ten minutes, never mind ten days. But I guess there wouldn’t be much a film then would there?
If you genuinely want to lose a guy in ten days then this film, with its inevitable happy ever after romcom plotline isn’t perhaps the best place for handy tips. Instead, check out this link for some useful advice, or just spend a few hours talking about the contents of your handbag, Sex and the City, your hatred of football, the amount of calories you’ve consumed so far this week or bridesmaids dresses. That should do the trick.
My flatmate is o b s e s s e d with rom-coms and although I try to resist, every now and again I have a weak moment and find myself joining her in watching one of them (even though it annoys me to death that she speaks along with the actors cos she knows all the lines). She took me along to Bride Wars, for which I will never forgive her, and she made me watch The Wedding Planner to add to the trauma. But when she snuck this movie on me, I was pleasantly surprised (or maybe my judgement was temporarily clouded by a cold). Hudson and McConaughey make a very good screen comedy couple and I just love how psycho Hudson’s character becomes. It made me laugh out loud.