How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey make for a decent screen coupling, but the movie around them is confused and corny. A journalist (Hudson) agrees to write a column about trying to scare away a man within 10 days of relationship time. She’s unaware that her target male (McConaughey) has made a wager that he can make a woman fall in love with him in the same amount of time. It sounds, and is, stupid, but the stars almost make it work—until the screenplay craps out and becomes your average Meg Ryan romance flick. Too bad, because it had a nasty little charm going for it.