Check out the movie summary of Ghost Of Girlfriends Past by Michael the Moviegoer.
GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST = ***
“A Kismet Carol”
Matthew McConaughey plays womanizing fashion photographer Connor Mead. His bed has seen more women than the Playboy mansion, yet he is as miserable, bitter and cynical as Ebenezer Scrooge. With this set-up, “Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past” becomes a hilarious and ingenious re-invention of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”.
Jennifer Garner plays the love interest that’s somehow been missing from Connor’s life until he is visited by three ghosts. Although it’s never fully explained why or how these women died, or even if they are dead, but that’s a minor point made irrelevant by a lot of big laughs.
Rounding out the cast are Anne Archer who plays Vonda Volkom (one of the great screen character names in recent memory) and Michael Douglas who steals every scene he’s in as Uncle Wayne. I wish there would be a whole spin-off movie made about Uncle Wayne, or even a TV series devoted to him. Uncle Wayne is the ultimate womanizer who inspires and teaches Connor as a young boy. Uncle Wayne is the personification of Neil Strauss’ book “The Game”!
Just as with his superb 1997 debut “The House Of Yes”, director Mark Waters is an expert at dark comic moments, and “Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past” has enough of them to lift this film up above the usual romantic-comedy fare.
DVD Watch: Another great re-invention of this Charles Dickens classic is 1988’s “Scrooged” starring Bill Murray as a TV network president with a blah-humbug attitude on Christmas eve. One of Murray’s funniest performances ever.
Michael The Moviegoer
