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Blind Date

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:47:17 -0500

An English-language remake of Theo Van Gogh s award winning 1996 Dutch film, BLIND DATE is the story of an estranged couple (Stanley Tucci, starring and directing, and Patricia Clarkson) who are desperately trying to reconcile after the tragic death of their daughter. Unable to face either their grief or each other, they go a series of blind dates , each placing personal ads in the paper and pretending to be strangers when they meet. They do this over and over again, playing a series of different roles, in an attempt to overcome the pain and rebuild their shattered relationship. When controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and killed in cold blood in 2004 by a religious fundamentalist angered over the portrayal of Islam in one of his short films, the idea to remake three of his favorite films in English, with Hollywood stars, was born. This is the second film in said trilogy, after Steve Buscemi s INTERVIEW.

Blind Date: Trailer

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:33:01 -0500

Stanley Tucci returns to directing with this English-language remake of Theo Van Gogh's award winning 1996 Dutch film. Blind Date is the story of an estranged couple (Tucci, starring and directing, and Patricia Clarkson) who are desperately trying to reconcile after the tragic death of their daughter. Unable to face either their grief or each other, they go a series of blind dates, each placing personal ads in the paper and pretending to be strangers when they meet. They do this over and over again, playing a series of different roles, in an attempt to overcome the pain and rebuild their shattered relationship. When controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and killed in cold blood in 2004 by a religious fundamentalist angered over the portrayal of Islam in one of his short films, the idea to remake three of his favorite films in English, with Hollywood stars, was born. This is the second film in said trilogy, after Steve Buscemi's Interview.

Blind Date

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:29:29 -0500

When Walter Davis (Bruce Willis, The Sixth Sense) is set up with gorgeous Nadia Gates (Kim Basinger, No Mercy), the perfect BLIND DATE dissolves into disaster in this sexy comedy caper. Walter invites beautiful southern belle Nadia to a button-down corporate dinner, expecting to impress his associates with this dazzling beauty. But all hell breaks loose when Nadia has "one too many" and reduces the evening and Walter's career to shambles. Bad turns to worse when Nadia's insanely jealous ex-beauDavid (John Larroquette, TV's "Night Court"), discovers them together and decides to annihilate theunsuspecting Walter. Can true love blossom amidst this hilarious havoc? Will Nadia and Walter ever get down to courting each other instead of courting disaster? Find out in the zany BLIND DATE, wherefirst encounters can lead to close encounters of the worst kind.

Blind Date

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:44:07 -0500

Bruce Willis stars as a young public-relations executive who goes on a remarkable and disastrous blind date with Kim Bassinger. Complications abound leading to involvement with both the police and the underworld.