![]() ![]() At AMC Loews Boston Common, Regal Fenway Stadium and suburban theaters. (“Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” contains sexual references, profanity and a drug reference.) He and his assistant keep walking and run into more women in their underwear, who invite him to dinner. He stops behind a camera and takes one photo of a bunch of women in their underwear. Otherwise, “Ghosts” should sorely test the theory that some women will pay to see any film about a wedding. Celebrity photographer Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) lives life in the fast lane, committed to bachelorhood and simultaneous relationships with multiple. Synopsis Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) walks into a building where his assistant, Melanie, meets him and gives him all of his messages and such. As the funny Asian assistant, Noureen DeWulf turns the proverbial sow’s ear of dialogue into a silk purse, and Chabert, too, manages a few screwball pirouettes in spite of the material. “Ghosts” is one of the latter.Īs the love interest who must somehow convince the viewers she has carried a torch for this Connor jerk her entire life, Garner has an impossible task. ![]() Director Mark Waters has made good films (“Mean Girls”) and not-so-good films (“Just Like Heaven”). Written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (“Four Christmases,” “Full of It”), the script features gay jokes at 15-minute intervals, double-entendres and lewd wordplay. Admittedly, not many actors can make a line like, “I swim in a lake of sex,” sound appetizing. 98 Photos Comedy Fantasy Romance While attending his brother's wedding, a serial womanizer is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends. Does anyone not know how this is going to end?Īfter humiliating himself with a speech against love and marriage (“Love leaves you weak, dependent and fat,” Connor declares), Connor, who has had too many single malts, is visited by the ghost of his womanizing Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas) in the men’s room of the Newport, R.I., estate where the wedding is to be held (actually, the Crane Estate in Ipswich).įor his part, McConaughey levels that empty gaze at all the women in the film and challenges the cinematographer to shoot around his crow’s feet. In this Massachusetts-shot effort, McConaughey plays Connor Mead, heartless playboy and celebrity photographer extraordinaire for such publications as Vanity Fair.Ĭonnor, who lost his parents in a car crash when he was a boy, is anti-marriage, anti-love and a misogynist.Īs the action begins, he breaks up with his three current girlfriends Kiki, Nadja and Charlece in a conference call because he likes to get things done “in bulk.” If that makes you laugh, you may be the target audience for this rot.Ĭonnor’s other problem is that he must attend the wedding of his little brother Paul (Breckin Meyer) to ether-voiced Sandra (Lacey Chabert) under the vigilant eye of Sandra’s gruff, ex-Marine father (Robert Forster) and Connor’s ex-girlfriend and childhood sweetheart-turned-physician Jenny Perotti (Jennifer Garner). In “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,” Dickens’ already-much-filmed classic “A Christmas Carol” is transformed into a resoundingly mediocre Matthew McConaughey romantic comedy. Talk about getting “Scrooged.” Charles Dickens would have wept. ![]()
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