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Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

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Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! reviews
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5.7 User Score:

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Based on 35 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Romance

Written by: Victor Levin

Directed by: Robert Luketic

Release Date:
Theatrical: January 23, 2004
DVD: April 20, 2004

Running Time: 95 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for sexual content, some drug references and language

Starring Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel, Topher Grace, Ginnifer Goodwin, Gary Cole, Kathryn Hahn, Sean Hayes, and Nathan Lane

When a girl wins the chance to meet the movie star man of her dreams, she finds out that her best friend is secretly in love with her.

What The Critics Said

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75

USA Today Claudia Puig

Unexpectedly charming. It's a classic date movie, but it also will appeal to pre-dating tweens and middle-aged romantics.

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Kate Bosworth holds it all together with a sweetness that is beyond calculation.

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75

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Isn't as funny as it wants to be, but it has a sheer pleasantness that stands out in this season of heavy-handed entertainments.

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70

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

The great lesson of the film is that humor, honest feelings and genuine exuberance trump technique.

63

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Easy to like, and easy to forget.

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63

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Starts out as fresh as your popcorn, but turns stale before you finish it.

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63

Premiere Laine Ewen

It is a cute, silly romantic comedy, with little suspense and nothing particularly new to add to genre.

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63

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Too silly to be taken seriously, it's not silly enough to overcome skepticism.

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63

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

A flimsy, genial romp peopled with early-twentysomethings and targeted at teens and young adults.

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63

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

Half-hearted satire of Hollywood and small-town life, and Bosworth is not particularly memorable in it.

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60

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

A sweet-natured romantic comedy that's easy viewing but could have used a little more energy and a little less unalloyed niceness to put it over with more punch.

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60

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Slapdash but good-natured romantic comedy.

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60

TV Guide Angel Cohn

This sweet trifle is infinitely more enjoyable than the gross-out romantic comedies that proliferated in the wake of "There's Something About Mary."

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60

Washington Post Mark Jenkins

Forget Tad Hamilton -- this is really a 90-minute date with Kate Bosworth.

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60

The New York Times Stephen Holden

A 1950's movie magazine fantasy dressed up just enough to pass for contemporary.

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60

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

The great character actor Gary Cole, in particular, stands out as Bosworth's father, who tries to impress Duhamel by reading the trades, thumbing through Julia Phillips' autobiography, and donning a Project Greenlight T-shirt.

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60

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

Refreshingly laid-back romantic comedy.

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50

Village Voice Ben Kenigsberg

A less offensive concoction than Luketic's "Legally Blonde," Win a Date is nevertheless an oddity, unsure of its tone and even of what period it's set in.

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50

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

May find an audience, but I found it to be a leftover John Hughes triangle.

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50

Variety Robert Koehler

A warm embrace of broadly but humanely sketched characters plus some scrappy casting of rising young stars led by an incandescent Kate Bosworth help overcome the half-realized comedic situations.

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50

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The film's comedy is lackluster, with supporting actors Nathan Lane and Sean Hayes (as Tad's manager and agent) providing a few mildly amusing moments that would be at home in a sit-com.

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50

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Should please its core audience, which includes anyone who might actually want to win a date with Tad Hamilton. Others may opt to wait for another date with Kate Bosworth -- or Nathan Lane.

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50

Boston Globe Ty Burr

A pleasant puff-pastry throwback to Sandra Dee movies, ''Bye Bye Birdie,'' and other pre-Beatles effluvia.

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50

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

The actors, especially Grace, fight hard against a schizoid script (the kids are rubes one sec, hipsters the next) and cotton-candy direction from Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde). It's a losing battle.

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50

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Suffers from a lack of conviction.

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50

New York Post Megan Lehmann

Despite his innate appeal and nimble line readings, Grace can't surmount the deficiencies of the underdog character screenwriter Victor Levin ("Mad About You") has saddled him with.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer

[Duhmel] brings surprising nuance to an ostensibly shallow character, a guy who's not really bad, just caught up in his own celebrity.

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50

Slate David Edelstein

The final 10 minutes of Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! are likable: one cliché following another, but with charming restraint. Or it might just have been that the movie's simple-mindedness wore me down.

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42

Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan

For children old enough to get the jokes about Vicodin but young enough to innocently fantasize about movie stars, Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! will be a perfectly pitched midwinter treat.

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42

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Time travelers, hobbits, ghosts? Those I can buy. The impossibly quaint world of small-town innocence and Hollywood harmlessness in Win a Date With Tad Hamilton? Now that demands a serious suspension of disbelief.

40

Film Threat Chris Barsanti

Takes a workable premise wrapped inside a mostly-talented cast and piles it all on poor Bosworth’s shoulders; it’s just not fair, you see how narrow they are.

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40

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

Ironically, what the comedy lacks is the sly imagination and satirical underpinnings of the best sex comedies from that (Doris Day) era. Instead, exposition is poorly executed, genuine laughs come infrequently and you quickly lose confidence that the filmmakers even understand what their basic joke is.

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40

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

Before things have even begun we know how they will end; this is pure Hollywood product, slicker than the insides of an oilcan.

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40

Empire Chris Hewitt

Win A Date With Tad Hamilton is a valiant attempt to create a love triangle, but ends up getting all its sums wrong.

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40

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

The bland script and direction are spruced up by a likable cast.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 5.7 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Sam gave it a7:
I didn't expect much, but i was fairly happy with how this awful looking experiment turned out to be quite a charmer. It's better then most movies of its caliber (except for the great legally blonde) and it's not perfect, but it tries to be human and no one is.

Patricia L. gave it an 8:
A refreshing holiday from predictable romantic comedies.

James gave it an 8:
This was a great movie!!!!!! I love the story and how the flow goes!!! I love the scripts and its damn GOOD.

Gretchen C. gave it a 10:
I thought this movie was so adorable! topher grace and the rest of the cast was awesome. i loved it so much, one of my new favorites movies!

Cameron S. gave it an 8:
I thought this movie was good. It wasn't as good as romantic comedies like Something's Gotta Give or What Women Want but it's a decent romantic comedy. Topher Grace was really good and funny and same with the rest of the cast.

CriticsR Mad gave it an 8:
Loved it! All you Josh Duhamel fans will love it even more. Not much to the story, but it's cute and better than many chick flicks out there. Topher was great too! Kate Bosworth was cute, but did have a very flat performance as Will J. wrote below. Entertaining for us chick flick lovers.

Chris gave it an 8:
I'm definitely not a guy for chick flicks, but i went with some girls and thought it wasnt that bad at all....topher grace is cool and the movie has some pretty funny parts.

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