How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
2003 film by Donald Petrie
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a 2003 film about a magazine columnist trying out all the wrong moves in a relationship, and an ad executive who's out to prove he make any girl fall in love with him in 10 days.
- Directed by Donald Petrie. Written by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long.
One of them is lying. So is the other. Taglines
Dialogue
edit- Michelle: Mike and I had such a connection. The first time that we had sex, it was so beautiful I cried.
- Jeannie: You cried?
- Michelle: Yeah.
- Andie: You mean one glistening tear on your cheek, right?
- Michelle: No, I was really emotional. I even told him that I loved him.
- Andie: After how many days?
- Michelle: Five... two.
- Andie: Michelle, if the most beautiful woman in the world acted the way you did, any normal guy would still go running in the other direction.
- Michelle: No. No guy would go running from you, Andie. You could barf all over him and he'd say, "Do it again."
- Andie: Oh, that is both incredibly disgusting and categorically untrue.
- Lana: Are we loving the way she looks, all?
- [all the columnists agree]
- Michelle: I haven't eaten since the split.
- Lana: Good for you. Write about it.
- Michelle: I can't use my personal life for a story.
- Lana: I understand completely... Who will use Michelle's personal life for a story?
- Andie: Look at Michelle. She is a great girl, right? An amazing woman. But she has a problem hanging on to relationships and doesn't really know what she's doing wrong, which is like a lot of our readers. So, I was thinking, that I could start by dating a guy, and then drive him away. But only using the classic mistakes most women, Like Michelle, make all the time. I'll keep a diary of it and it will be sort of a dating "How To" in reverse.
- Lana: What not to do.
- Andie: Yeah.
- Lana: "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days". Yes. Go.
- Spears: I'm not talking about lust. A woman in lust wants chocolate. A woman in love wants diamonds.
- Ben: Yeah, I'm not talking about lust either, ladies. I'm talking about deep, meaningful, head-over-heels, his-n-hers towels, let's-grow-old-together L-O-V-E. Look, I love women. I do. Whether they're 4, 40 or my 88-year-old grandmother, I respect women. Alright? And I also listen to women. And that's why I can sell myself to any woman, anywhere, any time.
- Spears: Make a woman fall in love with diamonds, Benjamin, or with you?
- Ben: Eh, either one.
- Warren: Well, that's cocky, Ben.
- Ben: No, not cocky, confident.
- 'Warren: I'd like to see you prove that.
- Ben: You would?
- Warren: The agency's cohosting a party for the DeLauers at the Astor Museum. The party's a week from Sunday. Do you think you could make a woman fall in love with you by then?
- Spears: Ten days? Any woman, anywhere, anytime?
- Ben: Any single, available, straight woman-- yes.
- Andie: Andie Anderson.
- Ben: Benjamin Barry.
- Andie: Cute.
- Ben: Thank you.
- Andie: I meant your name.
- Ben: Thank you two times.
- Andie: Unattached?
- Ben: Currently.
- Andie: Likewise.
- Ben: Surprising.
- Andie: Psycho?
- Ben: Rarely... Interested?
- Andie: Perhaps.
- Ben: Hungry?
- Andie: Starving.
- Ben: Leaving.
- Ben: I'm in advertising. I work mostly with alcoholic beverages and athletic equipment companies, and I'm trying to break into the jewellery market right now.
- Andie: Saving the world one keg party at a time?
- Ben: What about you?
- Andie: What about me?
- Ben: Have I seen your work?
- Andie: I work at Composure.
- Ben: Fastest growing women's magazine in the country. I'm impressed. Saving the world one shopaholic at a time, eh?
- Andie: It's beautiful.
- Ben: Thanks.
- Andie: You're beautiful. The game, the whole thing... I wish I ate meat. Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb. You have to take this away before I gag.
- Andie: Does Princess Sophia want to come out and play?
- Ben: Who's Princess Sophia? [she points to his crotch] No, no, no, no. Whoa, whoa. You're kidding me right? Princess Sophia?
- Andie: Little? Big? Little? Big? I don't know, we will find out!
- Ben: Listen, you can't name my member Princess Sophia.
- Andie: Yes I can.
- Ben: Listen... listen... if you're gonna name my, my member, you've gotta name it something hyper-masculine. Something like Spike, or Butch, or Krull the Warrior King, but not Princess Sophia.
- Andie: What did you just say?
- Ben: Spike. You know what I mean?
- Andie: No, no, after Spike.
- Ben: Butch.
- Andie: After Butch.
- Ben: Krull... Krull, the Warrior King.
- Andie: Does Kr-rull, the Warrior King want to come out and play?
- Ben: Oh, come on... No.
- Andie: Krull.
- Ben: You know what? Due to... intense humiliation, the King has momentarily abdicated his throne.
- Thayer: I thought you said after the Knicks game, she was a goddess.
- Ben: Oh, she was. That was the good Andie, this amazing, fun, cool, sexy woman. I'm talking about the evil Andie now. It's like a crack-enhanced Kathy Lee Gifford.
- Andie: [Ben answers the phone to Andie in the middle of a meeting]' Its me!
- Ben: I'm in the middle of a meeting. Can I call you back later?
- Andie: I miss you benny boo boo... boo boo boo.
- Ben: Look at Krull's necklace. It's got more ice than Liberace, don't you?
- Andie: Oh, it's just a little frosting.
- Andie: I did something kind of wacky. I used Photoshop at work today to composite our faces together to see what our kids would look like. Our family album! You don't want to see our children?
- Ben: We don't have... children.
- Andie: Oh, no. Our love fern. It's dead.
- Ben: No, it's just sleeping.
- Andie: You let it die. Are you going to let us die?
- Ben: The one night that we even thought about.. getting close to having sex. She up and decides she's going to nickname my...
- Michelle: Penis.
- Ben: Princess Sophia! You wanna talk about shooting a man's horse!
- Andie: I thought it was a beautiful name.
- Michelle: Hmm, I see, Benjamin. And when was it that you first realised that you were attracted to other men?
- Warren: I understand you've been an inspiration to Ben in more ways than one. And I must say, you look rather inspired yourself. There isn't a diamond it the room that sparkles like a woman in love.
- Andie: Oh, no, no. I'm not in love.
- Warren: No? I guess I was mistaken.
- Andie: No, no. I mean... I've only known him for ten days... You can't... I can't be...
- Warren: Ben is a very lucky man.
- Andie: Mr Warren, please don't tell him. Please don't tell him.
- Ben: So that's what I was, huh? I was a guinea pig. Somebody you can test your theories on?
- Andie: Yeah, and I was just a girl somebody picked out in a bar.
- Ben: Yeah, you know what? Big deal. Hell, now you can even use it as a little twist in your story.
- Andie: That's a good idea. Maybe we should bet on it.
- Ben: You know what, you did your job now, Andie.
- Andie: Yes, I did.
- Ben: You wanted to lose a guy in ten days, congratulations, you did it. You just lost him. [walks away]
- Andie: No I didn't Ben, 'cause you can't lose something you never had!
- Lana: Congratulations. This shows me you're ready to be unleashed. From now on, feel free to write about anything.
- Andie: Anything?
- Lana: Wherever the wind blows you.
- Andie: Even politics?
- Lana: Well, the wind's not going to blow you there.
- Andie: What about religion, poverty, economics?
- Lana: This wind is really more of a light breeze.
- Tony: [holding Andie's magazine] You might want to read this.
- Ben: Ah, no thanks.
- Tony: Yeah? [reading] "I've lost a guy, and l don't know why. What went wrong? When I started writing this month's column, I wanted to commit the certain silly dating faux pas. What l didn't realize was that I was making the biggest mistake of all." Here. Trust me. Read it.
- Andie: [after Ben forces her cab to pull over] What the hell was that?
- Ben: [holding up her magazine] Is this true?
- Andie: Ben, please.
- Ben: Is this true? Or are you just trying to sell magazines?
- Andie: I meant every word.
- Ben: Well, where you going?
- Andie: I have an interview.
- Ben: Yeah, in Washington. I know. [pause] Where you going?
- Andie: Ben, it's the only place I can go and write what l want to write.
- Ben: No, I'm not buying that. You can write anywhere. I think you're running away.
- Andie: Why don't you save your mind games for your next bet, okay? I am not running away.
- Ben: Bullspit.
- Andie: Excuse me?
- Ben: You heard me. Bullspit.
- Cab driver: Hey, lady, what do ya wanna do?
- Ben: [handing him money] Take the lady's luggage back to her place. She has alternate transportation.
- Andie: You callin' my bluff?
- Ben: You bet I am.
- [They kiss]
Taglines
edit- One of them is lying. So is the other.
Cast
edit- Kate Hudson — Andie
- Matthew McConaughey — Ben
- Kathryn Hahn — Michelle
- Annie Parisse — Jeannie
- Bebe Neuwirth — Lana
- Adam Goldberg - Tony
- Thomas Lennon — Thayer
- Robert Klein — Phillip