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10/10/05
20 Dates (1998)
40 %
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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 one man's heartfelt and hilarious... [More]
Starring: Tia Carrere, Stacy Sanches, Signy Coleman, Elie Samaha
Director: Myles Berkowitz
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Reviews for 20 Dates
Top Critic
An intermittently hilarious, often painful and too frequently self indulgent documentary.
04/09/05
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
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 Critic There's plenty of spunk, but the high-concept low comedy drags on like the awkward dates it lampoons.
01/01/00
Documentary... mockumentary... it's hard to tell exactly what 20 Dates is, but I know one thing: It's hysterical.
01/01/00
An often funny, always engaging romantic comedy filmed in a documentary format.
01/01/00
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.
01/01/00
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 Critic Whenever 20 Dates begins to establish a playful mood, it's liable to do something to make you squirm.
01/01/00
Top Critic It 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
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 Critic 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.
01/01/00
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