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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1987 DVD Release: 02/05/2002 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Korean, Spanish, Thai SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 35 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Total Copies: 9 Genres: Comedy, Slapstick, Romantic Comedy, Farce

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, All Movie Guide

Kim Basinger - Nadia Gates
Bruce Willis - Walter Davis
John Larroquette - David Bedford
William Daniels - Judge Harold Bedford
George Coe - Harry Gruen
Phil Hartman - Ted Davis
Joyce Van Patten - Nadia's Mother

A hilarious take on Murphy's Law, Blake Edwards's Blind Date comes to DVD from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. Presented in both 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen and 1.33:1 pan and scan, English (closed captioned) and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Surround with optional English, French, Spanish, Portugese, Chinese, Korean and Thai subtitles. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide