Blind Date Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Blake Edwards
Genres: Comedy
Rating:
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. So what does Willis do the first chance he gets? That's right, kids; he plies poor Basinger with champagne. And then he wonders why his life rapidly goes to hell in a handbasket. In his first starring movie role, Bruce_Willis manages to find all sorts of nuances in his one-note role, while Kim_Basinger is very funny when she's blotto-at least, for the first five minutes or so. John_Laroquette costars as a character straight out of a 1920s bedroom farce; he's also pretty good, even though his dialogue is numbingly unamusing. Blake_Edwards is famous for his ability to make a lot out of a little...but there has to be a limit somewhere. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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