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20 Dates (1998)

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Critic Reviews: 11
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Myles Berkowitz wrote and directed this mock documentary about a filmmaker who gets a producer to finance his personal search for a girlfriend, filming the odyssey on a $60,000 budget. In the opening credits, Berkowitz tries to drive onto studio lots without success. His first date observes that the film is really only about himself, and his second date exits the restaurant and doesn't return. After a discussion with script analyst Robert McKee, he decides to use hidden cameras -- which bring

R, 1 hr. 32 min.

Drama, Comedy

Aug 3, 1999

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

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Berkowitz is a rather annoying person.

July 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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A chronicle of how aspiring American filmmaker Myles Berkowitz finally came up with an idea for selling a film: He'd combine his two areas of failure in life -- trying to break into movies and trying to find a girlfriend -- into one problem.

March 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
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Like an obnoxious four-year-old who believes everything he does is fascinating and adorable, filmmaker Myles Berkowitz likes to announce, at the very start of a first date, that certain foods cause him to suffer from diarrhea or constipation.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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What's so disagreeable about Berkowitz is that he seems to think that his natural tendency towards egotistical self-promotion is an adorable quirk, something that you should be completely taken with even as it makes your skin crawl.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: CNN.com | Comment
CNN.com
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20 Dates may be unpleasant to watch, but despite Berkowitz's icky manners and unwinning calculations, he does find true love.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Berkowitz went to great trouble to stage, edit, and control certain aspects of his film so that it has a formulaic dramatic structure; one wonders why he didn't make the effort to present himself as a likable human being.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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An intermittently hilarious, often painful and too frequently self indulgent documentary.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment
Reeling Reviews

Myles Berkowitz may be the most annoying human being alive.

July 13, 2003 Comment
Aisle Seat

Hilarious and a must-see.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

Had the filmmaker gone the path of the true, entertaining, and unpretentious faux-documentary, the audience would have cheered our love-starved hero along his entire journey rather than restlessly waiting for a date to strangle him with a camera cable.

June 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

I haven't laughed so much at a movie in ages.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | Comment
culturevulture.net

There's plenty of spunk, but the high-concept low comedy drags on like the awkward dates it lampoons.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: E! Online | Comment
E! Online

This is one to put on your "to rent" video list.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | Comment
Hollywood Report Card

A promising directorial debut by Myles Berkowitz.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
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Its really clever! hilarious and cute. LOVED it!

April 18, 2011

The movie has its funny moments, altough the director departs from the initial idea, leaving the improvisation, and therefore, the film loses its originality.

August 11, 2010
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