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Writer:
Dale Launer (writer)
Release Date:
27 March 1987 (USA)
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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?" more
Plot:
Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance...
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Poor script - redeeming factor - the 3 leading actors
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 |
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Also Known As:
Blake Edwards' Blind Date (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
95 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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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
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The script was rewritten so much that writer Dale Launer, who wrote the original script, pretty much disowned the finished film.
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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.
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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"?
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Walter Davis: [chuckles] No, I'm actually a one-concubine kind of guy.
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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.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "The Adam and Joe Show: (#1.4)" (1996)
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Soundtrack:
Let You Get Away
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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.