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  • 2009
  • TV-MA
  • Variance Films
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  • 2009
  • TV-MA
  • Variance Films
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary An English-language remake of Theo Van Gogh's award winning 1996 Dutch film, Blind Date is the story of an estranged couple who are desperately trying to reconcile after the tragic death of their daughter. Unable to face either their grief or each other, they go a series of “blind dates”, each placing personal ads in the paper and prete...

Directed By: Stanley Tucci

Written By: Theo van Gogh, Tom Erisman, Renée Fokker, Peer Mascini, Kim van Kooten, David Schechter, Stanley Tucci

  • 2009
  • TV-MA
  • Variance Films
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2009
  • TV-MA
  • Variance Films
  • 1 h 20 m

Blind Date

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
51
User Score Generally Unfavorable
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Summary An English-language remake of Theo Van Gogh's award winning 1996 Dutch film, Blind Date is the story of an estranged couple who are desperately trying to reconcile after the tragic death of their daughter. Unable to face either their grief or each other, they go a series of “blind dates”, each placing personal ads in the paper and prete...

Directed By: Stanley Tucci

Written By: Theo van Gogh, Tom Erisman, Renée Fokker, Peer Mascini, Kim van Kooten, David Schechter, Stanley Tucci

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
51
14% Positive
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86% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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86% Mixed
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A sometimes hilarious, often wrenching pas de deux between actors Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson.
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60
It's about watching two always-fine actors do a lot with very little.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
60
It’s the kind of two-hander that relies solely on the chemistry of the actors, both of whom banter, parry and bum rush their way through various left turns with grace. Their pas de deux almost makes up for this threadbare tragedy’s no-win endgame. Almost.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
50
Set in a bar that echoes the far superior "Big Night," this labored two-hander plays more like an acting exercise than an actual movie.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
50
The self-consciousness of the premise and the playlike structure of Blind Date clash with the naturalism of Mr. Tucci and Ms. Clarkson’s acting styles, and the film never lifts itself above its origin as a well-meaning, underdeveloped exercise.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
50
Stagey pacing and unnecessary magic-realist voiceover aside, the film's ultimate failure as moving melodrama is that we experience these two acting as a dance partner, a reporter--even a blind man--but we never get who they really are, beyond grieving parents.
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Under Tucci's direction, Blind Date careens into tedium as the couple plays out permutations of a blind-date pairing.
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 4 User Ratings
3.3
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Production Company Column Productions, Ironworks Productions, Kiss the Cactus, Beyond Belief Productions, Living Stone
Release Date Sep 25, 2009
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating TV-MA
Genres
Tagline First date, second chance
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