"Mystery Date" (1991)

Rating: PG 

Genre: Comedy, Special Interest

Directed By: Jonathan Wacks

Written By: Terry Runte, Parker Bennett

Released: August 16^th, 1991

Runtime: 98 minutes

Studio: MGM Home Entertainment

Summary:

Teenage Tom McHugh (Ethan Hawke) is madly in love with his ravishing next-door neighbor, Geena Matthews (Teri Polo), but becomes hopelessly tongue-tied whenever she's around. When his parents go away on an impromptu road trip, his suave law student brother shows up and begins coaching Tom on how to pick up women. Things are going great until Tom discovers a body in the trunk of his brother's car, and his perfect date with Geena takes multiple turns for the worse.

Review:

I didn’t really enjoy this film. I was hopeful because it starred Ethan Hawke. But this wasn’t enough to lift the story…

The plot is bizarre. That was one of the things that made me curious to see it. I was expecting it to be better. In hindsight I’m not entirely sure why. It’s mundane because it’s all been done so many times. The body in the boot of the car sounds more intriguing than it actually turned out to be.

The pacing is painstakingly slow. Perhaps that’s its biggest problem. It took so long to get anything going and by then I had lost interest in it actually happening.

There isn’t really anything special about the characters. I didn’t feel anything much towards them.

Long story short, I wouldn’t recommend this film.

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