Product Details

• Actors: Paul Schneider (IV), Jennifer Westfeldt, Poppy Montgomery, Tori Spelling, Dorian Missick
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• DVD Release Date: March 14, 2006
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000E0OE3A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,336 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "How to Lose Your Lover" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A wickedly funny & wildly irreverent comedy about a down-on-his-luck writer & the three sexy women who turn his world upside down. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 05/15/2007 Starring: Poppy Montgomery Paul Schneider Run time: 94 minutes Rating: R

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars How to lose your interest...., September 15, 2006

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Lose Your Lover (DVD)

Jordan Hawley wrote and directed this dark 'comedy' about the current state of love/hate relationships in Los Angeles (or inability to create same) with about as much panache as yesterday's onion rings. The storyline has been used so many times that the tread is off the tires.

LA ghostwriter Owen (Paul Schneider) is a 'nice guy' who sustains an inability to form a satisfactory love relationship. Exasperated with his life style he decides to become a cad: that must be what women (and men) want. He reverses his nice guy tactic and begins telling everyone he encounters just how he feels - and that is usually negative! The only person who doesn't but into his change is his roommate Allison (Poppy Montgomery) who is bisexual and therefore not wholly available. He decides to leave Los Angeles and move to the East Coast where a lucrative deal awaits him to write the memoirs of a famous man. At the last moment he meets one Val (Jennifer Westfeldt), an animal activist: the chemistry is there but each has a conflicting program. Owen is honest with her, a factor that does not chase her away, but both part ways to other parts of the world. Upon return to LA after a disappointing experience on the East Coast, tables turn and surprises arise. And the ending is a mixture of silly and unsatisfying.

Movies like this are meant to entertain and some of the dialogue is clever albeit acerbic. It just that the idea of relationship examination under these terms is so worn out that the movie just doesn't spark any innovative thoughts. After about thirty minutes into the film this 'audience' lost interest. Grady Harp, September 06

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's all in here..., January 22, 2007

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Peter "Peter" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Lose Your Lover (DVD)

Jordan Hawley's `How to Lose Your Lover' is my kind of movie - all about brainy self-examination, funny, and full of twists. For me it's genuinely original - goodbyes are always about fake warm feelings, not burning bridges. Enjoy the psychosis, the antics, the irreverence and the decadence - but when it counts there is real heart in here, too. Setting this sort of thing in LA is something I've never seen. I want to call Hawley `West Coast Woody'. Has any movie celebrated the buildings and landmarks of LA in the same way?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Movie! At least rent it!, March 21, 2006

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PulpFiction4life (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Lose Your Lover (DVD)

I just watched this movie for the first time and I enjoyed the interesting twist that it takes on love. Paul Schneider's character is trying desparately to get out of LA and basically meets a girl at the last minute that changes his life and makes his escape much more difficult than even he could've imagined. It has funny, sad and sweet moments. If you like any of Paul Schneiders other movies (All the real girls, Elizabethtown) then I think you'd like this! He's a great actor I think he'll become an even bigger name in hollywood in the coming years. Enjoy the film with friends or a loved one it's a great flick to see with people you care about. I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars because it can get a slow at times, and quite dark. But the payoff at the end is certainly worth it, something you can see coming but you enjoy seeing the characters finally realize what we had known almost all along! Hope this helps!