BLIND DATE (1987)
MORGAN'S RATING
Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company's business dinner with a new important Japanese client. His brother sets him up with his wife's cousin Nadia, who is new in town and wants to socialize, but is warned that if she gets drunk, she looses control and becomes wild. How will the date turn out-- especially when they encounter Nadia's ex boyfriend David?
Bruce Willis (Walter Davis), Kim Basinger (Nadia Gates), John Larroquette (David Bedford), William Daniels (Judge Harold Bedford), George Coe (Harry Gruen), Mark Blum (Denny Gordon), Phil Hartman (Ted Davis), Stephanie Faracy (Suzie Davis), Alice Hirson (Muriel Bedford), Graham Stark (Jordan the Butler), Joyce Van Patten (Nadia's Mother), Jeannie Elias (Walter's Secretary), Sacerdo Tanney (Minister), Georgann Johnson (Mrs. Gruen), Sab Shimono (Mr. Yakamoto), Momo Yashima (Mrs. Yakamoto), Armin Shimerman (French Waiter), Brian George (Maitre'd), Ernest Harada (Japanese Gardener), Emma Walton, Elaine Wilkes, Susan Lentini (Muggettes), Barry Sobel (Gas Station Attendant), Arlene Lorre (Court Stenographer), Timothy Stack (Grant), Jack Gwillim (Artist), Diana Bellamy (Maid), Seth Isler (Delivery Driver), Paul Cerafotes (DIsco Dancer), Bob Ari (Bailiff).
FACTS PRODUCTION INFORMATION
RELEASE DATE: March 27th, 1987 (USA)
BOX OFFICE OPENING: $7.5 million (USA)
BOX OFFICE RESULT: $39.3 million (USA)
- Madonna and Sean Penn were approached to star together in this movie, but producers wanted to cast Willis in the male lead, so Madonna backed out.
DIRECTOR: Blake Edwards (Sunset). 
WRITER: Dale Launer.
PRODUCER: Tony Adams.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Trish Carolselli.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Gary Hendler and Jonathan D. Krane.
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: David Permut.
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Harry Mancini.
DISTRIBUTOR: TriStar Pictures
CRITICAL COMMENTS
"Tiresome retread of all-too-familiar farcical material by Blake Edwards...alternately boring and grating." -- Leonard Maltin
"A wickedly inventive farce." -- Janet Maslin, NY Times
"If the movie lacks a strong human core that we can care about -- the sort of core Peter Sellers and Dudley Moore have created with Edwards -- it does have a lot of funny stuff going on." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
"Unfunny farce...plodding and overplotted, it staggers under the weight of its contrivances--the coarse sort of comedy we've come to expect from Edwards." -- Rita Kempley, Washington Post