![]() ![]() By middle school, they were on the verge of romance, but Connor's hesitation at a dance caused Jenny to dance with and kiss another boy. She and Connor were very close at school she gave him his first instant camera which he used to take her picture, promising to keep it forever. They revisit scenes from his past, focusing on his relationship with Jenny. The first is the "Ghost of Girlfriends Past" in the form of Allison, his first lover. After delivering a drunken speech at the rehearsal dinner, Connor is visited by the ghost of the inveterate playboy Wayne, who warns Connor that he will be visited by three ghosts who will lead him through his romantic past, present, and future. There, he becomes reacquainted with Jenny Perotti, the only girl who captured his heart. After breaking up with three women simultaneously on a conference call to save time, he travels to his late uncle Wayne's estate to attend the wedding of his brother Paul to Sandra. The three ghosts share similar appearances with the original descriptions, and the film shares the traditional plot points from the book.Ĭonnor Mead is a famous photographer and womanizer. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past features a wedding day and the day before, rather than the familiar Christmas and Christmas Eve from A Christmas Carol. Filming spanned Februto July 2008 in Rhode Island with stars Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Lacey Chabert, Emma Stone, and Michael Douglas. The script was written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, based on Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. There’s a difference between funny and ha-ha funny and shooting for both only cockblocks everyone.Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Mark Waters. This different tones, different approaches comedy can work on occasion (see Caddyshack), but here it feels like a jumbled mess of crossed swords, alternating intentions and Michael Douglas. Yet, in many scenes, they’re acting opposite Breckin Meyer’s straight man from Road Trip and Matthew McConaughey’s laid-back, charming Matthew McConaughey. Take for example Lacey Chabert and Emma Stone, two beautiful actresses who so zealously buy into their physical tantrums and verbal harangues, they might have fit in nicely in Wedding Crashers or Harold And Kumar. Some seem to be acting in a comedy with some romance, others a romance with a little comedy. It’s never really made clear, and that’s confusing. Lovable, silly, cute and clichéd at parts, slow, indulgent, misguided and unfunny at others, Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past tries to be a raucous, high-energy fling through a decade of relationships or maybe tries to be a heart-felt, aww-shucks amble through those same relationships. This works, to varying degrees, for both Connor and the audience until all the comfortable notes are struck and the conclusion we’ve all been waiting for rears its good guy head. Of course, he walks back into her life at the wedding of his brother (Breckin Meyer), and after shamelessly hitting on the bride’s mother and every able-bodied woman this side of the Bunny Ranch, Uncle Wayne decides to help in Dickensian fashion by sending in three ghosts with aims on leading Connor back to Jenny and providing a little amusement for himself and the audience. She doesn’t fall for his lines, tells him he can’t come upstairs and makes him fall in love until she lets him upstairs and he lets her go. This one’s name is Jenny ( Jennifer Garner). But for every good rule there’s a better exception and behind every mediocre romantic comedy, there’s a girl who got away. ![]() Young ones, old ones, white ones, black ones, skinny ones and fat ones, Connor Mead loves ’em and leaves ’em all. His dearly departed Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas) taught him from an early age the only foolproof way to permanently mend a broken heart is by continually breaking new ones. Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) is a talented photographer by nature, callous womanizer by training. ![]()
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