'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' Movie Trailers and Reviews

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Lacey Chabert, Emma Stone, Christina Milian, Michael Douglas, Breckin Meyer, Robert Forster

Director: Mark Waters

Release Date: May 1st, 2009
Release Date: 1st May, 2009

Studio: New Line Cinema

Synopsis: A bachelor goes to his younger brother’s wedding, where he is visited by the ghosts of his past girlfriends.

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About the Movie

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a 2009 American romantic comedy film that has a plot based on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Mark Waters directed a script by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Filming spanned February 19, 2008 to July 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts with stars Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Emma Stone. The film was released on May 1, 2009.

Movie Reviews

Movie Review by Marty Meltz

Quality – 6 out of 10

A silly implementation of a workable premise is saved by loads of terrific, snappy one-liners in “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.”

Matthew McConaughey, aided by a hip and catchy Michael Douglas, manages to deliver a performance so immersed in funny lines that you can stay with the film just anticipating what he’s going to say next. The concept of a promiscuously womanizing Vanity Fair photographer, whose only dedication is dumping women after he’s convinced them that love is on the way, is in itself ultimately fertile in bringing up many issues of the deeper meanings of a married life versus lifetime bachelorhood.

At its best in its ability to make the subject of seduction a dominating and continuous appeal, the script is a virtual concentration of verbal foreplay which demands, and gets, very funny repartee. McConaughey is a reliable charmer and each of the female characters is given commendable effort in quick fleshing out.

The resolutions are cleverly managed so as to give interesting observations of how love triumphs over the vacancy of an unattached life without ever losing the waggish appeal.

So is this guy totally lost? This celebrity photographer, Connor Mead, is so in love with total freedom and carefree fun with women that he can even pull some stunts like getting a whole bunch of his current dates on the phone at once and dumping them all on a conference call. In his own words, love is a myth.

He lives a life of pure mockery of love and romance. OK for him, but his younger brother Paul (Breckin Meyer) and all his dear friends and family are really scared that Connor may, intentionally or not, screw up Paul’s upcoming wedding. This does indeed look like it may happen at the pre-wedding proceedings at the sumptuous seaside mansion (set in Newport, filmed in the Castle Hill mansion in Ipswich, Mass.), during which Connor takes Paul aside and vigorously tries to talk him out of this thing called wedlock. While he’s at it, he actually tries to score with the bride’s mother (Anne Archer).

But now Connor is visited by the ghost of his deceased Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas), a man whose own womanizing and wedlock cynicism had affected Connor as a child. He initiates a tour of the ghosts, past and present, of the dumped girlfriends of Connor’s past. Conducting the tour is Connor’s first girlfriend, Allison (Emma Stone).

In the process they take him down the ill-plotted courses of romance he’d had with them, with their mission to show him what an insensitive and self-destructive jerk he’d been. As things go on, Connor is brought to realize that there was at least one woman, Jenny (Jennifer Garner), whose deeper attractions had been overlooked by him and now set him to thinking.

Film quality and credibility is not of commanding relevance in plots like this. One must reflect immediately at how in the world all these woman are even in a situation to give their help regarding Connor. And why would they even care? What counts is the entertainment value, which is more than adequate.

No, it’s not “good” film but yes, it’s very funny.