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Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith) is a professional "date doctor", or consultant as Hitch terms himself, who coaches other men in the art of having the perfect date with the woman of their dreams.

While coaching one of his clients, Albert Brennaman (Kevin James), who is smitten with celebrity Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta), Hitch finds himself falling for Sara Melas (Eva Mendes), a gossip columnist who is determined to unmask and ruin the so-called date doctor after one of his "clients" (with whom Hitch refused to work) had a one-night stand with her best friend. However, where Albert and Allegra's relationship continues to progress, Hitch finds that none of his tried and tested methods are working on himself, despite being a master of the art. After Hitch is unmasked, he and Sara break up, and Allegra and Albert follow suit. Finally, Hitch confronts Allegra and convinces her to reunite with Albert, before reconciling with Sara. In the process, he makes the startling discovery that he doesn't really do anything significant, and that most of his customers (particularly Albert) really were successful by just being themselves. In the end, Albert and Allegra get married and celebrate their marriage with Hitch and Sara, who are also back together again. Hitch, reflecting on love's unpredictability, addresses the audience in the last line, "Basic principles... There are none."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitch_(film)#Plot_Summary taken on Dec. 24, 2008

Was race an issue in ‘Hitch’ casting?
By Jeannette Walls

Casting Will Smith’s love interest in “Hitch” was not a simple black or white decision.
Eva Mendes was given the role opposite Smith because the moviemakers were worried about the public’s reaction if the part was given to a white or an African American actress, according to Smith. The actor is saying that it was feared that a black couple would have put off worldwide audiences whereas a white/African American combo would have offended viewers in the U.S.

“There’s sort of an accepted myth that if you have two black actors, a male and a female, in the lead of a romantic comedy, that people around the world don’t want to see it,” Smith told the British paper, the Birmingham Post while promoting the flick overseas. “We spend $50-something million making this movie and the studio would think that was tough on their investment. So the idea of a black actor and a white actress comes up — that’ll work around the world, but it’s a problem in the U.S.”

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7019342/#storyContinued taken on Dec. 24, 2008

Critic Reviews by Carina Chocano
In Hitch, Will Smith plays a high-end romance consultant specializing in helping the lovelorn woo and win the women of their dreams in three easy dates. You can tell he's good at what he does by the hotness differential between his thyroidal clients and their hot-off-the-runway love interests - I'm talking about off-the-charts, sitcom-level disparities. Eugenics enthusiasts would recoil in horror. Hitch himself is effortlessly attractive, of course - confident but not slick, charming but not unctuous. He also happens to be squeaky decent: He'll only take on clients who are deeply in love. He's a catch, in other words. In his first role as the lead in a romantic comedy.

Not that you'd know it right away. The movie kicks off with Hitch breaking down the rules of strategic romance for the camera, and for a few heart-stopping moments it seems as though the movie might slide into Alfie territory. Luckily, the camera confessions soon recede and Hitch gets down to specifics. The "date doctor" meets Albert (Kevin James, King of Queens) - shy, pudgy, certified. He's the mild-mannered CPA of a beautiful socialite and heiress, Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta, supermodel), whose jet-setting boyfriend was recently busted for cheating by Sara Melas (Eva Mendes), the gossip queen of a major New York tabloid and soon to be Hitch's undoing. With a title like "Hitch," there had to be one, and it's presently revealed that the hero's heart was sealed off to love while in college, when he looked inexplicably like TV's Urkel.

As standard character motivation tropes go, that Hitch had his heart broken by his first girlfriend and refused to fall in love again is serviceable, if unimaginative. But it's better than the white-hot trauma that supposedly scarred Sara for life. (Younger sister, skating accident, go figure.) As is probably evident by now, Hitch gets into some minor trouble when it ventures into the deep psych stuff, especially when it burdens Smith with monologues stacked with more nuggets of reassuring, easy-peasy wisdom than a display table at an airport bookstore. (There's one speech near the end in which running, leaping, jumping and flying figure prominently as go-for-it metaphors.) But when first-time screenwriter Kevin Bisch and director Andy Tennant veer off the beaten get-girl, lose-girl, get-girl path -- which, thankfully, they do often -- the script feels taut and springy, and the actors bounce off it like toddlers on a trampoline.

Smith is a gifted comic actor, and seeing him in a lighthearted comedy, his first romantic lead, is a pure pleasure. He could carry the movie on his own, but he doesn't need to - the three other leads more than adequately pull their weight. James is enormously likable and fresh in what must have looked like a fairly rote character on the page. Valletta manages to make the unlikeliest celebrity socialite ever imagined seem believably sweet, warm and centered; and the charismatic Mendes commands the screen like an Italian screen siren from the '50s and '60s. They look like they're having a good time together, which is as much as one can ask from actors in a romantic comedy, and more than they usually deliver. Add to this that they're a quartet and that the happy chemicals seem to float freely in at least three directions. Both couples seem genuinely to like each other, as do Smith and James.

Romantic comedies have become so cannibalistic lately that Hitch stands out for what seem like major innovations by comparison. (That's as much a comment on the state of the genre as on the pleasures of this movie, but still, it bears saying). One of them is that Hitch is told from a male point of view that doesn't subscribe to the me-hunter, you-stay-in-cave school of intrinsic sexuality (a theory that still seems to thrive among members of the writers and directors guilds, if nobody else.) It may be as idealized and romanticized as the usual female one, but still it's a nice change. The other is that the previews do not, as it turns out, contain the only three funny moments in the movie. They contain portions of three funny moments - but, remarkably, there's more to the scenes you've by now surely seen 500 times in previews. In this day and age, leaving some of the funny stuff for the movie seems like an incredibly gallant gesture, and one you have to appreciate. The worst thing to be said about Hitch is that the end will come as no surprise to anyone. But it's a happy ending that actually feels like one, so, really, there's no catch.

Copyright 2005 Los Angeles Times

Source: http://www.fandango.com/hitch_86043/criticreviews?review_source=LosAngelesTimes taken on Dec. 24, 2008

Memorable quotes for Hitch
Hitch: Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away.
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Hitch: "Coquille St. Jacques." Death on a leaf!
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Sara: What should we toast to?
Hitch: Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
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Hitch: Any guy can sweep any girl off her feet, he just needs the right broom.
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Vance: [after telling Hitch that he only wants a girl so he can sleep with her] No, I was told that you help guys get in there.
Hitch: Right, but see, here's the thing - my clients actually *like* women. "Hit it and quit it" is not my thing.
Vance: Let me make one thing clear to you, rabbi, I need professional help.
Hitch: Well, *that* is for damn certain.
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Vance: [grabs Hitch by the wrist] You see what I'm doing? This is what I'm about - power suit, power tie, power steering. People can wince, cry, beg, but eventually they do what I want.
Hitch: Oh! So that's, like, a metaphor?
Vance: Oh, yeah.
Hitch: Right. Well, see, I'm more of a literal kind of guy. So when I do this...
[he reverses the grip, twists Vance's arm back and slams him on the table]
Hitch: This is more like me saying that I will literally *break your wrist off* if you ever touch me again. Okay, pumpkin?
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[first lines]
Hitch: Basic Principles - no woman wakes up saying "God, I hope I don't get swept off my feet today!" Now, she might say "This is a really bad time for me," or something like "I just need some space," or my personal favorite "I'm really into my career right now." You believe that? Neither does she. You know why? 'Cause she's lying to you, that's why. You understand me? Lying! It's not a bad time for her. She doesn't need any space. And she may be into her career, but what she's really saying is "Uh, get away from me now," or possibly "Try harder, stupid," but which one is it? 60% of all human communication is nonverbal, body language; 30% is your tone, so that means 90% of what you're saying ain't coming out of your mouth. Of course she's going to lie to you! She's a nice person! She doesn't want to hurt your feelings! What else she going to say? She doesn't even know you... yet. Luckily, the fact is that just like the rest of us, even a beautiful woman doesn't know what she wants until she sees it, and that's where I come in. My job is to open her eyes. Basic Principles - no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet; he just needs the right broom.
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Hitch: [Hitch showed Sara where her great-great-grandfather Juan signed into Ellis Island, and she ran out the door crying] I'm really sorry. When I saw him on the computer, it said "The Butcher of Cadíz." I thought it was a profession, not a headline.
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Sara: Relationships are for people who are waiting for something better to come along.
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Hitch: One dance, one look, one kiss, that's all we get, Albert. Just... one shot, to make the difference between happily ever after, and oh? he's just some guy I went to some thing with once.
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Albert: You can't stop it...
[shouts]
Albert: You cannot stop it...
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Hitch: [Struggling to speak with Sara through her peephole, explaining why he pauses] ... This is weird - I don't have me behind the door.
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Albert: You know, honestly, I never knew I could feel like this. You know? I swear I'm, I'm going out of my mind. It's like I want to throw myself off of every building in New York. I, I see a cab and I just wanna dive in front of it because then I'll stop thinking about her.
Hitch: Look, you will. Just give it time.
Albert: That's just it. I don't want to. I mean, I've waited my whole life to feel this miserable. I mean, and if this is the only way I can stay connected with her, then... well, this is who I have to be.
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Sara: So, you kinda like me, huh?
Hitch: No. I love you.
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Hitch: So how does it happen, great love? Nobody knows... but what I can tell you is that it happens in the blink of an eye. One moment you're enjoying your life, and the next you're wondering how you ever lived without them.
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Hitch: Lean in, place your hand on the small of her back, say it in her ear like a secret. But watch your hand placement, too high says, 'I just wanna be friends,' too low says, 'I just wanna grab some ass.'
Albert: [making holding gestures at different levels] Okay... Friends. Ass. Me.
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Hitch: Because that's what people do. They leap, and hope to God they can fly, because otherwise you just drop like a rock, wondering the whole way down, why in the *hell* did I jump? But here I am, Sarah, falling, and the only one that makes me feel like I can fly... is you.
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[last lines]
Hitch: Basic principles... there are none.
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Albert: You know what it's like getting up every morning? Feeling hopeless, feeling like the love of your life is waking up with the wrong man. But, at the same time hoping that she still finds happiness, even if it's never going to be with you.
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Sara: [on her cell phone talking to Geoff, on her way to work] Did I call it or did I call it? I mean, what did I say, six months? And when was her first date? So five-and-a-half? God, I hate it when I'm right. I mean, what is it about guys that makes them want to screw anything that walks, even when they're going out with someone as awesome as Allegra Cole? I mean, she's only the single most fabulous thing walking around New York. Thanks Young
[to guy working at newsstand]
Sara: . Are you kidding? Of course I'm gonna run it. Why should she waste her heart on some Swedish aristo-brat? Even if he is gorgeous. Hey, if he's stupid enough to cheat then the world should know he's dumb enough to get caught.
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Hitch: [in reference to the seafood appetizer] Coquille St-Jacques, my ass! Death on a leaf!
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[Unimpressed with Albert's dance moves, Hitch pauses the music and slaps him across the face]
Hitch: Get out.
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Hitch: Like I always tell my clients - begin each day as if it were on purpose.
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Sara: Oh, God. You're a morning person, aren't you?
Hitch: Well, you know, like I always tell my clients, "Begin each day as if it were on purpose."
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Hitch: Now, on the one hand, it is very difficult for a man to even speak to someone who looks like you. But, on the other hand, should that be your problem?
Sara: So life's kind of hard all around.
Hitch: Not if you pay attention. I mean, you're sending all the right signals - no earrings, heels under two inches, your hair is pulled back, you're wearing reading glasses with no book, drinking a Grey Goose martini, which means you had a hell of a week and a beer just wouldn't do it. And if that wasn't clear enough, there's always the "fuck off" sign that you have stamped on your forehead.
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[Albert is holding a box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts]
Hitch: What you got there?
Albert: This? I figured maybe if my heart stops beating, it wouldn't hurt so much.
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Hitch: [talking about when kissing going 90 per cent then he goes 10] All right show me the magic.
Albert: OK.
[going to kiss Hitch]
Hitch: [after being kissed] What the hell?
Albert: Well, you said show me the magic
Hitch: Yeah, but you go 90 then I go 10. You don't go the whole hundred, you over-eager son of a... BLECH!
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Hitch: [to Albert] Don't need no pizza. They got plenty of food there.
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Albert: [showing Hitch his dance moves] Do the Q-tip! Q-tip! Now throw it away! Now what am I doing? I'm makin a pizza!
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Hitch: I'm a guy. Since when do we get anything right the first time?
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Max: Spoken like a true cynic.
Sara: I'm not a cynic, I'm a realist!
Max: Or a realist masquerading as a cynic who is secretly an optimist.
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Hitch: No guile, no game... No girl
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Hitch: I'm like a vault baby, locked down!
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Sara: What's your name?
Chip: They call me Chip.
Sara: Aw, you can't get 'em to stop?
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Hitch: Heard of Michelangelo? Heard of the Sistine Chapel?
Albert: Yeah?
[Points at himself]
Hitch: Michelangelo.
[Points at Albert]
Hitch: Sistine Chapel.
Albert: So you're saying you can make this work?
Hitch: My name is Alex Hitchens. Let's go paint that ceiling.
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Hitch: When your wondering what to say, or how you look... just remember... she is already out with you. That means, she said yes, when she could've said no. That means she made a plan... when she could've just blown you off. So that means it is no longer you job to make her like you... It’s is your job NOT TO MESS IT UP.
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Max: There is more to life than to watch other people live it.
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Chip: [talking to Sara as he puts a drink on the table] I noticed your glass was getting a little low so I took the liberty of bringing you another apple martini.
Sara: Thank you.
Chip: And I couldn't help but notice... you look a lot like my next girlfriend.
Sara: [as she puts her drink down] What's your name?
Chip: They call me Chip.
Sara: Awww... you can't get them to stop?
Chip: [laughs] That was funny.
Sara: Listen Chip, I understand the courage it takes to walk across a room and try to generate a relationship out of thin air so don't take the following personally...
Chip: You have fantastic eyes.
Sara: [chuckles] Thanks, try to listen. I..uh this is no reflection on you, I'm just not interested. But thank you for the compliment of coming over.
Chip: You're welcome. So do you like Cuban food?
Sara: Chip seriously, that wasn't code for "I wish you'd try harder".
Chip: Are you always so shut down, and afraid? That the right man might make you feel...
Hitch: [interrupting Chip and puts a hand on his shoulder] ...Feel like a natural woman?
[laughs]
Hitch: Sorry I'm late hunny I couldn't get a cab. How was the meeting?
Sara: Oooh... well there was a beginning a middle and an end. Nice to meet you Chip.
Chip: [stands up to walk away] You too.

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386588/quotes taken on Dec. 24, 2008

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