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20 Dates (1998)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:12
Rotten:18
Average Rating:4.8/10
Synopsis: Myles Berkowitz went searching for the perfect woman...and scored with the perfect romantic comedy. This "ingeniously conceived, laugh-out-loud hunt for a girlfriend" (Los Angeles Times) depicts... Myles Berkowitz went searching for the perfect woman...and scored with the perfect romantic comedy. This "ingeniously conceived, laugh-out-loud hunt for a girlfriend" (Los Angeles Times) depicts one man's heartfelt and hilarious quest for love, including a scandalous tryst with actress Tia Carrere and a Playboy playmate! [More]
Starring: Tia Carrere, Stacy Sanches, Signy Coleman, Elie Samaha
Starring: Tia Carrere, Stacy Sanches, Signy Coleman, Elie Samaha
Director: Myles Berkowitz
Director: Myles Berkowitz
Producer: Jason Villard, Mark McGarry
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Reviews for 20 Dates
An intermittently hilarious, often painful and too frequently self indulgent documentary.
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.
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.
There's plenty of spunk, but the high-concept low comedy drags on like the awkward dates it lampoons.
Documentary... mockumentary... it's hard to tell exactly what 20 Dates is, but I know one thing: It's hysterical.
An often funny, always engaging romantic comedy filmed in a documentary format.
Early on, Berkowitz tells us that he has just two failings: his personal life and his professional career. By the conclusion of the movie, Myles has apparently remedied both.
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.
Whenever 20 Dates begins to establish a playful mood, it's liable to do something to make you squirm.
It doesn't help that the film eventually loses its focus and has to fumble back to the real storyline at the very end.
20 Dates may be unpleasant to watch, but despite Berkowitz's icky manners and unwinning calculations, he does find true love.
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