A Guy Thing (2003)

When a man wakes up the morning after his bachelor party in bed with a strange woman he presumes he must have cheated on his fiancee.

Director:

Chris Koch

Writers:

Greg Glienna (story), Greg Glienna (screenplay),

Stars:

Jason Lee, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jason Lee	...	Paul
Julia Stiles	...	Becky
Selma Blair	...	Karen
James Brolin	...	Ken
Shawn Hatosy	...	Jim
Lochlyn Munro	...	Ray
Diana Scarwid	...	Sandra
David Koechner	...	Buck
Julie Hagerty	...	Dorothy
Thomas Lennon	...	Pete
Jackie Burroughs	...	Aunt Budge
Jay Brazeau	...	Howard
Matthew Walker	...	Minister Green
Fred Ewanuick	...	Jeff
Lisa Calder	...	Tonya

Storyline

When he wakes up the morning after his bachelor party in bed with a strange woman, a man presumes he must have cheated on his fiancée. Guilt leads him to try to cover it up in the week before the wedding, high jinks ensue.

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Plot Keywords:

bachelor party | wedding | ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship | one night stand | rehearsal dinner | 

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Taglines:

He Finally Found The Perfect Girl.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for language, crude humor, some sexual content and drug references

Details

Official Sites:

MGM [us] - trailer, synopsis, etc.

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 January 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

Coisas d'Homem

Filming Locations:

I-5 at Jackson Street, Seattle, Washington, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$51,614 (South Africa) (17 October 2003)

Gross:

$87,054 (South Africa) (24 October 2003)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), David Ladd Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is the second collaboration between Julia Stiles ("Becky") and Larry Miller ("Minister Ferris"). The first was "10 Things I Hate About You".

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Goofs

On the stairs, when Paul is introduced to Becky, the small tree branches keep appearing and disappearing.

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Quotes

Paul: [after finding out they didn't do it] Then how did I get crabs?
Becky: You've got crabs?
Paul: Yeah. You gave me crabs.
Becky: I DO NOT HAVE CRABS!
Paul: You don't?
Becky: No. But if I do I'm going to hunt you down and kill your crabby ass.

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Connections

Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Alice in Wonderland/Stolen/Brooklyn's Finest (2010)

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Soundtracks

"The Anniversary Song"
Written by Saul Chaplin, Al Jolson
Performed by The Arthur Murray Orchestra (as Arthur Murray Orchestra)
Courtesy of The RCA Records Label, a unit of BMG Music
Under license from BMG Special Products

User Reviews

By the numbers

A much as I like Jason Lee,this is a brain-dead, incredibly derivative date movie that has been done dozens of times before. I really wonder who goes to see these things. Lee plays his usual hapless schmo who wakes up to find a naked blonde (Stiles) in his bed on the morning after his bachelor party. His fiancée (Blair) is on the way over to his apartment at that very moment, f course. I suspect you do not need to have me say anything more about the plot. The moment we see Stiles and Blair, we know where this is going. The lowest of low points in this bogus comedy is when Lee tries to explain away Stiles' panties, which Blair finds in his toilet tank. As he haltingly tells her that he bought them for her, she buys his explanation, and at that point, I wanted to crawl under my couch and die. The wedding finale is similarly cringe-inducing. Blair, a decent-enough actress, is such a pretty young thing to be wasted in such dreck. But then again, it's a paycheck. This is assembly-line movie-making that Hollywood should have given up making long ago. It's not even up to modern TV sitcom standards. I suspect the script was throw together by a roomful of monkeys taking turns typing on an old typewriter.