![]() ![]() He’s supposed to be a scion of an old New England family - unaccountably one with a Texas accent - a fashion photographer who only takes pictures of semi-nude women who immediately jump into bed with him. McConaughey has played these roles all too frequently: a cock of the walk who struts through a movie with a loose grin that draws women to him like bees to pollen. To tell the truth, they don’t exactly sparkle either. film, though, certainly will test the drawing power of Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner. Witlessness lately has not proved a surefire drawback at the box office, so these “Ghosts” might attract younger viewers when it opens on May 1 against “Wolverine.” The New Line/Warner Bros. ![]() As written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and directed by Mark Waters, the movie clumps through one witless if not wince-evoking sequence after another without the relief of laughter. It’s even worse than it sounds as one can at least see potential for laughs about a man who runs from females as fast as he can following the climax of the only thing that interests him about women. The head-shaking concept here - you shake your head that anybody would develop the story, much less greenlight it - is that Scrooge the miser is now Connor the sexaholic confronted with the past, present and future of his bad behavior with women so he can reclaim the girl he always loved. Cast member Matthew McConaughey poses at the Mann's Village theatre in Westwood, California August 11, 2008. ![]()
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