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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blind Date is not really meant to teach lessons. In fact, it is silly, silly, silly--so silly that it is hysterically funny in a way that moronic comedies ought to be. It's almost campy...
There is something else I learned from this movie (and this is a (movie, not a film). Before I saw Blind Date, I thought that Kim Basinger was actually a Barbi Doll. Now I know it's true...
Which is not to say that this movie isn't somewhat enlightening. I mean, what man on earth could ever guess that going on a blind date with Kim Basinger could end up ruining your life? What begins as pleasant enough evening for fast-track L.A. careerist Walter Davis (Bruce Willis), leaves him fired, arrested, injured, hung over, and with only the frame of his sporty white car to drive home...
...starts out innocently enough. After his date stands him up, Walter is desperately seeking someone sensational to attend a business dinner with him. His boss warns him in advance that the evening is for a Japanese client who keeps several concubines in addition to a slavish wife, and who has extremely conservative attitudes toward women. Even though his sleazy car dealer brother-in-law has set him up on more than one date with disaster, Walter is assured that Nadia (Kim Basinger), a Southern tart who's new to town, will be different...
...FILMING this blind date gone rotten, Blake Edwards leaves no nightmares undreamt. Houses that have always stood in one place are suddenly carried away and beds that have always been sturdy cave in. Following the dinner fiasco, the rest of the night is spent in a California-freeway car chase with Nadia's homicidal ex-boyfriend David (John Larroquette), who also happens to be a trial lawyer...