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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Directed byDonald Petrie
Screenplay by
  • Kristen Buckley
  • Brian Regan (writer)
Based on
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
by
  • Michele Alexander
  • Jeannie Long
Produced by
  • Lynda Obst
  • Robert Evans
  • Christine Peters
Starring
CinematographyJohn Bailey
Edited byDebra Neil-Fisher
Music byDavid Newman
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • February 7, 2003 (2003-02-07) (United States)
  • April 17, 2003 (2003-04-17) (Germany)
Running time
116 minutes
Countries
  • United States
  • Germany
LanguageEnglish
Budget$50 million
Box office$177.5 million

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Donald Petrie[1] starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey.[2]

Andie Anderson, a women's magazine writer, has a friend Michelle who is broken up with by her boyfriend and gets sad. Andie tells her that her problem with men is her needy behavior. This inspires Andie to write the article "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days".

To research for this article, she begins dating a man and imitating Michelle's behavior to try to get him to dump her within 10 days. However, the man she chooses is an advertising executive, Benjamin Barry, who begins the relationship as a bet with his boss that he can get any woman to fall in love with him.

References

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  1. "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
  2. BBFC. "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days". www.bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
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