In advance of Game 3, Ben pretends he can’t hang out because the game is on, when it’s actually because by this point Andie’s shenanigans have gotten so bad he’s barely holding on to his sanity in the relationship. Dumber than the Knicks making the NBA Finals in this fictional universe. Cutesy romantic comedy hijinks, nothing else to see here. She then watches the game in the back of the restaurant with the kitchen staff while Ben fumes over missing it. The next game in the series during which we see them interact is Game 2, when Ben cooks a beautiful lamb dinner to eat while watching the game at his house and Andie pretends to be a vegetarian so they have to go to a New Age-y restaurant with lots of henna tattoos and muesli-based entrees. We receive confirmation later in the movie that this is Game 1 of the series. At the beginning of their “relationship,” Andie gets Finals tickets, and takes Ben to a game at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks are, inexplicably, in the NBA Finals (even more inexplicable: this isn’t the gaping plot hole I am talking about). The move establishes early that both Anderson and Barry are Knicks fans. But the “twist” that I’m about to explain, doesn’t even make sense in the movie’s reality.) The film’s entire premise falls under this umbrella. (Note: There are other things that don’t make sense in our reality, but they make sense in the film’s reality. Andie is trying to “lose” the titular guy in 10 days for her magazine column, and Ben is trying to prove he can make a woman fall in love with him in only 10 days to land a big advertising account. If you’ve seen the movie, you know that it revolves around two people (Kate Hudson’s Andie Anderson and Matthew McConaughey’s Benjamin Barry) dating. It’s a Celine Dion punchline that happens a little more than halfway through the movie. It has bothered me during every rewatch for all fifteen years since the movie came out. That one thing is a gaping plot hole in this movie, and an entirely avoidable one at that. I’m fully aware I am being ridiculous about this one thing.The movie’s soundtrack holds up amazingly well.Bebe Neuwirth is a treasure, forever and always.There are three things you need to know about my feelings on this movie before you read any further: It’s not a cinematic classic or anything, but upon a recent revisiting I remembered how well it pulls off what could have easily been an awful, squirmy storyline - somehow not becoming overly saccharine or callous - and how perfectly the quippy, wisecrack-y lines are delivered.Įven the lines that are clichés.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is an immensely re-watchable movie.
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