In The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, which debuts in U.S. theaters on Friday, Matthew McConaughey plays a man who bids farewell to bachelorhood, which seems appropriate for the 39-year-old who recently bought a house in Malibu, settled down with his girlfriend Camila Alves, and welcomed his first child, Levi, into the world.
McConaughey plays Connor in the movie, a philandering celebrity photographer who runs into his childhood sweetheart, played by Jennifer Garner, at his brother's wedding.
On the eve of the nuptials, he receives visits from three ghosts, who point out the errors of his womanizing ways and scare him to death, nearly.
"It's about what would you do if you could go back in time and change things, or if you could go forward in time to see where you're going to end up, on the path you're going. How have your actions affected other people? Maybe Connor didn't mean to hurt anyone, but he found out he hurt a lot of people," McConaughey said.
The herald of the three ghosts is the spirit of Connor's late Uncle Wayne ( Michael Douglas), an old-school ladies' man who taught his nephew all his womanizing tricks.
