Blind Date (1987)

Director:

Blake Edwards

Writer:

Dale Launer (writer)

Release Date:

27 March 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

"Do you recognize me? I used to be a respectable citizen. I had a good job and a promising future. I made only one mistake - I went on a blind date. ...Anyone got $10,000 for bail?"

Plot:

Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance...

Plot Keywords:

Butler | Slapstick | Yuppie | Blind Date | Lawyer

Cast

Kim Basinger	...	Nadia Gates
Bruce Willis	...	Walter Davis
John Larroquette	...	David Bedford
William Daniels	...	Judge Harold Bedford
George Coe	...	Harry Gruen
Mark Blum	...	Denny Gordon
Phil Hartman	...	Ted Davis
Stephanie Faracy	...	Susie Davis
Alice Hirson	...	Muriel Bedford
Graham Stark	...	Jordan the Butler
Joyce Van Patten	...	Nadia's Mother
Jeannie Elias	...	Walter's Secretary
Herb Tanney	...	Minister (as Sacerdo Tanney)
Georgann Johnson	...	Mrs. Gruen
Sab Shimono	...	Mr. Yakamoto

Also Known As:

Blake Edwards' Blind Date (USA) (complete title)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Finland:K-12 | Netherlands:MG6 | Peru:14 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 | West Germany:12 (w) | Iceland:L | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Culver City, California, USA

Company:

TriStar Pictures

Trivia:

The script was rewritten so much that writer Dale Launer, who wrote the original script, pretty much disowned the finished film.

Goofs:

Continuity: While Walter is being booked at the police station, there is a long blood stain visible running down his shirt. By the time he's released, the blood is gone.

Quotes:

Nadia Gates: [inspects painting] Oh! This looks Japanese. "Master and Concubines"?
Walter Davis: It's Yakamoto!
Nadia Gates: What is?
Walter Davis: No, no, the reason for this big business dinner tonight is this Japanese industrialist new client of ours. He's old world Japanese and he's got a wife that's more like a slave and he keeps concubines!
Nadia Gates: You gotta be kidding me.
Walter Davis: No, no, his wife knows all about it. It's "traditional" or something.
Nadia Gates: Tell me something, Walter: Are you into those kind of "traditions"?
[chuckles]
Walter Davis: [chuckles] No, I'm actually a one-concubine kind of guy.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "The Adam and Joe Show: (#1.4)" (1996)

Soundtrack:

Let You Get Away

Poor script - redeeming factor - the 3 leading actors

The story moved clumsily along from one idiotic situation to another none of which were really tied together by the end of the movie. Bruce Willis' character changed twice during the movie, but the changes were sudden, and the character never evolved. Kim Basinger's character was like a Dr. Jekyll and Miss Hyde which never really worked, and John Laroquette's character had a limited redundant vocabulary (I'll kill you), and a running gag of driving his car into buildings which really didn't work when you discovered in the latter part of the movie that he was a defense lawyer. These three actors made the movie tolerable, but it would have been much better if the writer and the director had never made the movie to begin with.