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A Guy Thing is a 2003 American comedy film directed by Chris Koch and starring Jason Lee, Julia Stiles and Selma Blair.

A Guy Thing
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Directed by	Chris Koch
Screenplay by	Greg Glienna Pete Schwaba Matt Tarses Bill Wrubel
Story by	Greg Glienna
Produced by	David Ladd David Nicksay
Starring	Jason Lee Julia Stiles Selma Blair James Brolin Shawn Hatosy Lochlyn Munro Julie Hagerty
Cinematography	Michael Chapman
Edited by	David Moritz
Music by	Mark Mothersbaugh
Production companies	David Ladd Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	MGM Distribution Co. (United States) 20th Century Fox (International)[1]
Release date	January 17, 2003 (2003-01-17)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$20 million[2]
Box office	$17.4 million[2]

Plot

Paul Morse (Lee) and Karen Cooper (Blair) are about to get married in Seattle. During his bachelor party, Paul has a chat with one of the dancers at the party, Becky Jackson (Stiles), and they find that they have an affinity for each other. Paul wakes up the next morning and is terrified to see Becky in the bed next to him. Assuming they slept together, Paul rushes Becky out of his apartment and hopes never to see her again. He tries to cover up the connection for the few days before the wedding. Unfortunately, Becky unexpectedly shows up around town and turns out to be Karen's cousin. Even worse, Becky's malicious ex-boyfriend cop Ray Donovan (Munro) had Becky followed and photographed. Becky and Paul meet again to steal those pictures from Ray's apartment. Further problems arise with family and friends consistently showing up at the wrong times. Crabs, dirty underwear in the toilet tank, a horny best friend, and a best man/brother who is in love with the bride all provide for a week of wedding preparation hijinks. Through the snowballing of all his implausible lies and half-truths, Paul receives corroboration and support from an unexpected corner; what seems to be a coordinated network of other men, including friends, complete strangers and, to Paul's astonishment, Karen's own father; all who give the same explanation: "It's a guy thing".

Cast

• Jason Lee as Paul Morse
• Julia Stiles as Becky Jackson
• Selma Blair as Karen Cooper
• James Brolin as Ken Cooper
• Shawn Hatosy as Jim
• Lochlyn Munro as Ray Donovan
• Diana Scarwid as Sandra Cooper
• David Koechner as Buck Morse
• Julie Hagerty as Dorothy Morse
• Thomas Lennon as Pete Morse
• Jackie Burroughs as Aunt Budge
• Jay Brazeau as Howard
• Larry Miller as Minister Ferris
• Matthew Walker as Minister Green
• Dylan Winner as Moni Young
• Fred Ewanuick as Jeff
• Lisa Calder as Tonya
• Victor Varnado as Hansberry

Release

The film debuted at #7 in the U.S. box office, taking USD 6,988,749 in its opening weekend, before falling to #11 the following week.[3]

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 24% approval rating based on 103 reviews, with an average score of 4.1/10 and a consensus: "Wasting the talent of its leads, A Guy Thing is a predictable romantic comedy that relies on cheap laughs." On Metacritic the film has a score of 27% based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[4] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B−" on scale of A to F.[5]

Dennis Harvey of Variety said that the film "does get slightly better as it goes along" but suggested that the multiple rewrites polished any creativity or originality out of the script.[6][7][8]

References

External links

• A Guy Thing at IMDb
• A Guy Thing at Box Office Mojo
• Filming Locations at MoviePlaces.tv

На других языках

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[de] Gelegenheit macht Liebe

Gelegenheit macht Liebe (A Guy Thing) ist eine US-amerikanische Filmkomödie von Chris Koch aus dem Jahr 2003.

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- [en] A Guy Thing

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[ru] Мальчишник (фильм, 2003)

«Мальчи́шник» (англ. A Guy Thing) — романтическая кинокомедия, повествующая о последствиях мальчишника. Премьера состоялась 17 января 2003 года.

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