How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

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

 * 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!

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 * 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.

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 * 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.

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 * 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

 * One of them is lying. So is the other.

Cast

 * Kate Hudson — Andie
 * Matthew McConaughey — Ben
 * Kathryn Hahn — Michelle
 * Annie Parisse — Jeannie
 * Bebe Neuwirth — Lana
 * Adam Goldberg - Tony
 * Thomas Lennon — Thayer
 * Robert Klein — Phillip