While attending his brother's wedding, a serial womanizer is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends.While attending his brother's wedding, a serial womanizer is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends.While attending his brother's wedding, a serial womanizer is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends.
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Emily Baldoni
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- TriviaThis is the second time that Christa B. Allen has played the younger version of a character played by Jennifer Garner. The first was in 13 Going on 30 (2004).
- GoofsThe Marine father-of-the-bride uses a Hooah! rally call, when a Marine would use OohRah! The Hooah is Army.
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Connor Mead: Someone once told me that the power in all relationships lies with whoever cares less, and he was right. But power isn't happiness, and I think that maybe happiness comes from caring more about people rather than less...
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: The Informers/The Soloist/Tyson (2009)
- SoundtracksDon't Say Love (The Smooth Mix)
Written by Ralph Sall
Performed by All Too Much
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For a rom-com, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is as dramatic as it could be, more Dickens than Apatow. Matthew McConaughey as womanizer Connor Mead is type cast as a rake waiting to be changed into a loving human being, The plot with returning dead lovers to teach him a lesson about having feelings is not quite as exotic as it sounds, for it is a device mainly to show him as a callow youth squiring and losing the love of his life, Jenny Perotti (Jennifer Garner). The drama is the disaster he makes of his brother's wedding and the tears he witnesses from the women he has seduced and left.
Since we all know enjoying casual sex is a no-no for descendants of Puritans, the outcome of the ghostly apparitions' lessons is secure in cliché land. Following the party line about scoundrels getting what they deserve is ghost of Uncle Wayne, a sort of Gordon Gekko gone good, an oily ex-Lothario played with relish by another spot-on bit of casting, Michael Douglas. His flowing hair and Hollywood-tinted big glasses call to mind producer Robert Evans (The Kid Stays in the Picture). Although Uncle Wayne is a recovered womanizer, at least for now, his speeches about loneliness and broken hearts ring true only for the moment, but long enough to affect the hero.
It's an enjoyable film with a smart cast, a preposterous story but a serious message about true love and selflessness. Not quite a romantic comedy, but very close indeed.
Since we all know enjoying casual sex is a no-no for descendants of Puritans, the outcome of the ghostly apparitions' lessons is secure in cliché land. Following the party line about scoundrels getting what they deserve is ghost of Uncle Wayne, a sort of Gordon Gekko gone good, an oily ex-Lothario played with relish by another spot-on bit of casting, Michael Douglas. His flowing hair and Hollywood-tinted big glasses call to mind producer Robert Evans (The Kid Stays in the Picture). Although Uncle Wayne is a recovered womanizer, at least for now, his speeches about loneliness and broken hearts ring true only for the moment, but long enough to affect the hero.
It's an enjoyable film with a smart cast, a preposterous story but a serious message about true love and selflessness. Not quite a romantic comedy, but very close indeed.
- JohnDeSando
- May 3, 2009
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- Hồn Ma Bạn Gái Cũ
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- Budget
- $37,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $55,250,026
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $15,411,434
- May 3, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $102,366,815
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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