Fav Romcom: “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”

I believe everyone has their own childhood favorite movies of all time. And same as the others, I also have mine and today I wanna share one of my favorite childhood movies. I watched this film when I was still in junior high school and instantly get attached to it. This big screen project was quite a hit at that time and it’s called “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”, a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey.

Thanks to this film, I set a dream of becoming a writer in a magazine and luckily after I graduated from college I got accepted as junior writer in a well-known online magazine and believe me I love the job a whole lot. But for some reasons, I decided to quite the job (I sometimes miss it though, the job suit me perfectly). I even used the name of Kate Hudson’s character in the movie as my alias (I remembered I was very thrilled about using this name).

This movie is very very hilarious yet romantic at the same time. Andie Anderson, portrayed by beautiful Miss Hudson, is a writer for the women's magazine Composure and was assigned to write a column for the magazine about the reverse tips of dating guides and the column would be titled the same as the movie’s name, “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”. In the other hand, Matthew McConaughey portrays Benjamin Barry, an advertiser who is challenged by his collages and boss to date a girl and make the girl fall in love with him within a week.

One of Benjamin’s collages picked a girl intentionally for she knew that Andie was working for her dating reverse column, feeling confident that somehow Benjamin would lose the bet because Benjamin would never succeed in making Andie fall for him. During those 10 days, lots of hilarious things happened between Benjamin and Andie. Andie did whatever she thought every woman did that made their boyfriends ran away. Benjamin, in the other hand, was forced to make the relationship stay longer and patiently accepted all the madness Andie did to him.

And just every other fairy tales and romantic comedies has, the two eventually fall for each other and off course they ended up being together. But trust me if you among those romcom freaks just like me, you certainly can’t miss this movie.