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Matthew McConaughey news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Matthew McConaughey performances. Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor. After a series of minor roles in the early 1990s, he came to fame after starring in several successful films, including A Time to Kill and U-571. He is known for having played the leading man in several hit romantic comedies, including The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Failure to Launch.

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Movie Review - 'The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past'

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From: getthebigpicture.net

The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, and Michael Douglas
Directed by Mark Waters
Rated PG-13

You have wondered how a movie got made. Not from a technical standpoint, but how the idea you're watching unfold ever made it through the proper channels. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past answers that question pretty early on.

I can imagine a producer looking at the one-page treatment of the film, a summary that says, "It's A Christmas Carol substituting Scrooge with a womanizer. He's confronted by the way he uses and discards women while being reminded that he's had true love within his reach his entire life."

The producer throws a face onto the treatment - Matthew McConaughey - and begins reading the script. Connor Mead is a photographer, and a damn good one. After shooting a gorgeous singer for an upcoming magazine cover, he takes her into his office for a little...uh...extra exposure. Before he can sleep with the singer, he has to break up with three other girls via conference call.

The producer is hooked. Nothing that happens after the conference call break-up really matters. The treatment already put that modern spin on the Charles Dickens classic, the producer loves the McConaughey idea, and just think of how good that break-up will look in the TV commercials. This movie is getting made!

The problem is that Ghosts of Girlfriends Past wastes the central idea, which is a good enough one, and the conference call is maybe six minutes into the movie. Good luck wading through the rest of it; it doesn't improve much.

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