1987
PG-13
TriStar Pictures
1 h 35 m

1987
PG-13
TriStar Pictures
1 h 35 m

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 sh...

Directed By: Blake Edwards

Written By: Dale Launer, Leslie Dixon, Michael Alan Eddy, Tom Ropelewski, Blake Edwards

1987
PG-13
TriStar Pictures
1 h 35 m

1987
PG-13
TriStar Pictures
1 h 35 m

Blind Date

Name: Blind Date
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 1987-03-27
Duration: 1 min 35 s
Rating: 49
Cast: Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, John Larroquette, William Daniels, George Coe

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 22 User Ratings

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Directed By: Blake Edwards

Written By: Dale Launer, Leslie Dixon, Michael Alan Eddy, Tom Ropelewski, Blake Edwards

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29% Positive
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21% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews

29% Positive
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21% Negative
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The New York Times

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.

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Chicago Tribune

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.

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Variety

Theme of pure mayhem works well because of chemistry between the main trio of actors, Willis, Basinger and her spurned ex-beau (John Larroquette).

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Chicago Tribune

Bruce Willis' film debut should prove to be a disappointment for Moonlighting fans, because the script he has been given here does not compare to the elaborate material he has worked with on some episodes of the TV show. Willis plays a business man who winds up falling in love with a woman (Kim Basinger) who goes crazy every time she has a drink. Director Blake Edwards (10) does not distinguish himself with this exercise in nonstop slapstick, and the performances of both Willis and Basinger are lost amid the rubble. [08 May 1987, p.C7]

By Gene Siskel FULL REVIEW

Washington Post

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.

By Rita Kempley FULL REVIEW

Washington Post

There are no sparks in Blind Date. And the script, written by Dale Launer (Ruthless People), is so devoid of laughs it's impossible to understand why Willis chose it for his first film outing. [02 Apr 1987, p.B11]

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Los Angeles Times

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.

By Sheila Benson FULL REVIEW

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23% Mixed
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Production Company TriStar Pictures, Blake Edwards Entertainment, Delphi V Productions, ML Delphi Premier Productions, Permut Presentations

Release Date Mar 27, 1987

Duration 1 h 35 m

Rating PG-13

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Tagline "Do you recognize me? I used to be a respectable citizen. I had a good job and a promising future. I made only one mistake - I went on a blind date. ...Anyone got $10,000 for bail?"

Website http://www.sonymoviechannel.com/movies/blind-date

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Jupiter Award

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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Kim Basinger

Nadia Gates

Bruce Willis

Walter Davis

John Larroquette

David Bedford

William Daniels

Judge Harold Bedford

George Coe

Harry Gruen

Mark Blum

Denny Gordon

Phil Hartman

Ted Davis

Stephanie Faracy

Susie Davis

Alice Hirson

Muriel Bedford

Graham Stark

Jordan the Butler

Joyce Van Patten

Nadia's Mother

Jeannie Elias

Walter's Secretary

Herb Tanney

Minister

Georgann Johnson

Mrs. Gruen

Sab Shimono

Mr. Yakamoto

Momo Yashima

Mrs. Yakamoto

Armin Shimerman

French Waiter

Brian George

Maitre d'

Ernest Harada

Japanese Gardner

Emma Walton Hamilton

Muggette #1

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