Blind Date

Name: Blind Date
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: March 27, 1987
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 49
Cast: Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger

1987

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TriStar Pictures | Release Date: March 27, 1987 | PG-13

Starring: Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger

Summary: Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company's business dinner with a new important Japanese client. His brother sets him up with his wife's cousin Nadia, who is new in town and wants to socialize, but he was warned that if sheWalter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company's business dinner with a new important Japanese client. His brother sets him up with his wife's cousin Nadia, who is new in town and wants to socialize, but he was warned that if she gets drunk, she loses control and becomes wild. How will the date turn out - especially when they encounter Nadia's ex-boyfriend David?… Expand

Director: Blake Edwards

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 95 min

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Janet Maslin

Blind Date is farce of a traditional and even old-fashioned sort, but Mr. Edwards's complete enthusiasm for the form creates a comic style so avid that it's slightly surreal. Comic possibilities are everywhere in Blind Date, and the tireless Mr. Edwards leaves none of them unexploited. Read full review

Bill Cosford

When it's working Blind Date is frenzied and very funny. It's a return to form for Blake Edwards, who has made a good many bad movies over the past 10 years. And in Willis and Basinger there is the kind of team that, back in the good old days, would have launched a series -- not sitcom/sitdram, but big-screen. [27 Mar 1987, p.D1]

Dave Kehr

If Blind Date is soft and simple at its core, it is certainly the sharpest, funniest film Edwards has made since Victor/Victoria. After the sogginess of his last few features, all of his dazzling craft seems to have come back to him. Read full review

Jack Kroll

Edwards's sputtering rhythm makes it tough for Moonlighting's Bruce Willis, who nonetheless in his first leading movie role mixes a nice blend of brashness and bewilderment. [13 Apr 1987, p.77]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Director Blake Edwards takes a sitcom sketch and blows it up into a witless feature film that relies on pratfalls and slapstick. Read full review

Rita Kempley

Blake Edwards directs this unfunny farce, a banal boozer's comedy that relies on the comedic e'clat of Basinger: basically, Barbie doing standup. Meanwhile leading man Bruce Willis is all buttoned-down and leashed. Read full review

Sheila Benson

What boggles the mind is how this bit of navel lint could have seemed even remotely funny to anyone at any stage along its way. Even as a low moment in high concept, it is inconceivable that someone would undertake to make this into a film. Read full review

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Voodoo123

Aug 19, 2022

The great cast, cinematography and production quality are wasted here. While I found it was good enough for a couple chuckles, nothing will change the godawful screenplay, poor direction and seemingly thoughtless plotline transparently setup purely for cheap comedic gags. It almost feelsThe great cast, cinematography and production quality are wasted here. While I found it was good enough for a couple chuckles, nothing will change the godawful screenplay, poor direction and seemingly thoughtless plotline transparently setup purely for cheap comedic gags. It almost feels like a Paul Fieg comedy vehicle sans melissa mccarthy but in the 80's.… Expand

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powerdegre

Sep 5, 2022

I watched this again on a streak of 80s film and was expecting better from a cast filled with names such Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis and John Larroquette, but it fails to deliver and found myself being bored to tears. The plot is nearly inexistent and merely a series of occasionallyI watched this again on a streak of 80s film and was expecting better from a cast filled with names such Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis and John Larroquette, but it fails to deliver and found myself being bored to tears. The plot is nearly inexistent and merely a series of occasionally entertaining gags. I finished watching it out of sheer stubborness.… Expand

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