CREATIVE QUOTIENT
Celebrity photographer Connor Mead loves freedom, fun and women…in that order. A committed bachelor with a no-strings attached policy, he thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple women on a conference call while prepping his next date.

Connor’s brother Paul is more the romantic type. In fact, he’s about to be married. Unfortunately, on the eve of the big event, Connor’s mockery of romance proves a real buzz-kill for Paul, the wedding party and a houseful of well- wishers—including Connor’s childhood friend Jenny, the one woman in his life who is immune to his charm.

Just when it looks like Connor may single-handedly ruin the wedding, he gets a wake-up call from the ghost of his late Uncle Wayne, the hard-partying, legendary ladies’ man upon whose exploits Connor has modelled his lifestyle. Uncle Wayne has an urgent message for his protégé, which he delivers through the ghosts of Connor’s jilted girlfriends – past, present and future – who take him on a revealing and hilarious odyssey through a lifetime of failed relationships.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s script hinges on a premise borrowed from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It’s a predictable, yet sporadically-passable screenplay.

Earlier Mark Waters explored romantic connections from beyond the grave in the pleasant but ordinary Reese Witherspoon comedy, Just Like Heaven.

Ghosts Of Girlfriends’ Past is peppered by performances from a clutch of actors led by Michael Douglas, who amiably play the ghosts from the past. Michael Douglas is perfect as Uncle Wayne. While Matthew McConaughey is okay as the Casanova and Jennifer Gardner is as ravishing, as she is the apt foil to McConaughey’s on screen charms.