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03/26/09
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... [More]
Starring: Tia Carrere, Stacy Sanches, Signy Coleman, Elie Samaha
Director: Myles Berkowitz
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Reviews for 20 Dates
Top CriticThere's plenty of spunk, but the high-concept low comedy drags on like the awkward dates it lampoons.
01/01/00
No review available.
08/03/05
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.
01/01/00
Top CriticWhenever 20 Dates begins to establish a playful mood, it's liable to do something to make you squirm.
01/01/00
Top CriticBerkowitz is a rather annoying person.
07/21/05
Top CriticIt doesn't help that the film eventually loses its focus and has to fumble back to the real storyline at the very end.
01/01/00
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.
06/05/02
20 Dates may be unpleasant to watch, but despite Berkowitz's icky manners and unwinning calculations, he does find true love.
01/01/00
Top CriticLike 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.
01/01/00
An intermittently hilarious, often painful and too frequently self indulgent documentary.
04/09/05
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.
03/19/02
Top CriticOne of the downsides of living in a free society is that every so often someone like Myles Berkowitz gets hold of a camera.
01/01/00
Top CriticMyles Berkowitz may be the most annoying human being alive.
07/13/03
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.
01/01/00
Myles Berkowitz is an out-of-work director and egomaniac with a clever idea that is destroyed by his self-indulgence.
01/01/00
The film has the obnoxious tone of a boring home movie narrated by a guy shouting in your ear.
01/01/00
Top CriticMyles Berkowitz doesn't appear to have a soul, just an ego that fails to grasp why women don't love him.
01/01/00
Hilarious and a must-see.
12/08/02
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