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Blind Date (1987)

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When speaking of Laurel and Hardy's first feature film Pardon Us, Stan Laurel described it as "a three-story building on a one-story base"-in other words, a 2-reeler stretched and bloated into 6 reels. Much the same could be said of Blake Edwards's Blind Date, though one wonders if Stan Laurel could have even gotten two reels out of its wafer-thin premise. At the outset, yuppie Bruce Willis is warned not to let his blind date, southern belle Kim Basinger, drink anything stronger than lemonade.

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Drama, Comedy

Dale Launer

Feb 5, 2002

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Comic possibilities are everywhere in Blind Date, and the tireless Mr. Edwards leaves none of them unexploited.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
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This is the kind of movie that serves as a reminder that comedy is agonizingly difficult when it works, and even more trouble when it doesn't.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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What this movie needs is Cybill Shepherd playing hard to get. Or anybody playing hard to get.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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A guilty pleasure from Willis and Bassinger's glory days!

July 29, 2007
Echo Magazine

Underappreciated rom-com with Larroquette in top form

October 22, 2005
Film Threat

Hir or miss, but a couple of the gags that do hit are screamingly funny. A bit involving Graham Stark's butler and a doberman had me howling uncontrollably.

October 9, 2005
Fantastica Daily

Would you believe My Stepmother Is an Alien was better?

December 8, 2004
MovieCrypt.com

When Edwards misfires, he misfires big.

July 19, 2004
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

This is something special, even among its ilk. Frighteningly bad.

July 8, 2004

Blind Date is a funny movie, but only in parts. As a Sunday afternoon Superstation timewaster, it'll do the job every bit as well as an episode of Moonlighting or Night Court.

March 4, 2004 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
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...tedious.

August 1, 2003 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
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There are moments where you can see Blake Edwards greatness but these are far and few between. Maybe the 80's was to blame as some how I can see this working in the 70's and with a completely different cast. The problem is that although the premise isn't bad, it gets completely out of control and it needed to be a lot more subtle. He's great at slapstick but Blake Edwards needed to get the script to a much higher level for it to have worked, that and the fact that the romance between the two characters is never evident or believable.
March 13, 2013
SirPant

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One of the funniest films of the 80s, this comedy about a blind date going awry enjoys embarrassing situations for its protagonist and piles one after the other until you can't take it anymore. Director Edwards already delivered a similar film with his classic "What's up, doc", recycling a few of the ideas here, but still creating another riot of confusion, chaos and insane characters. The chemistry between Willis and Basinger is great and even though the film reeks of the 80s in every second, it's still fun to revisit over and over again.
June 29, 2006
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