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Mystery Date (1991) 5.7
A teenage boy would like to meet with a very pretty, blonde girl who lives in the next door. His elder brother helps him with car and credit card to be successful. This simple story will be... See full summary » Director:Jonathan Wacks |
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Tom McHugh
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| Teri Polo | ... |
Geena Matthews
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| Brian McNamara | ... |
Craig McHugh
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| Fisher Stevens | ... |
Dwight
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| BD Wong | ... |
James Lew
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Tony Rosato | ... |
Sharpie
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| Don S. Davis | ... |
Doheny
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| James Hong | ... |
Fortune Teller
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| Victor Wong | ... |
Janitor
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Ping Wu | ... |
Vince
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| Duncan Fraser | ... |
Crully
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| Jerry Wasserman | ... |
Detective Al Condon
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Terry David Mulligan | ... |
Mr. McHugh
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Merrilyn Gann | ... |
Mrs. McHugh
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Ben
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A teenage boy would like to meet with a very pretty, blonde girl who lives in the next door. His elder brother helps him with car and credit card to be successful. This simple story will be very complicated because of the corpse in the boot, and other nightmares intervene ... Written by Kornel Osvart <kornelo@alphanet.hu>
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Their first date may just be his last! See more »Genres:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
16 August 1991 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Cita misteriosa See more »Filming Locations:
Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaBox Office
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$6,166,819 (USA)Company Credits
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Geena: It was not my loins! I was... curious.
Fortune Teller: Ah1 In women, curiosity is an urge that springs from the loins.
Geena: What, and not in men?
Fortune Teller: In men, *everything* is an urge that springs from the loins.
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The crazy metal band on stage at the night club is GWAR. See more »Goofs
When Dwight is banging on the trunk towards the end of the movie, no bullet hole is visible. See more »Quotes
Fortune Teller: ...all because your loins led you out tonight.Geena: It was not my loins! I was... curious.
Fortune Teller: Ah1 In women, curiosity is an urge that springs from the loins.
Geena: What, and not in men?
Fortune Teller: In men, *everything* is an urge that springs from the loins.
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When someone even if it's your brother offers to fix you up on a date with the girl of your dreams, watch out because if it's too good to be true, it usually is. That's the position that young Ethan Hawke who worships his older brother Brian McNamara.
McNamara is however not studying to be a lawyer, but instead is a crook who has stolen from a Chinese gangster played by James Wong and who wants his goods back. What McNamara is doing by even giving Hawke his car, his fashionable wardrobe and even his credit card is set up his younger brother while he deals in relative safety. So that first date with Teri Polo is an experience not likely to be forgotten.
Mystery Date definitely has a few laughs in it, but throughout it I couldn't really get all that amused over the plight of Hawke and Polo. I mean this kid really worships McNamara and this guy is such a sleaze to take advantage of that. Kind of puts a damper on the humor.
Funniest performance has to be from Fisher Stevens who plays a psychotic floral delivery guy who McNamara stiffs for a tip and then goes berserk, taking it out on poor Hawke, the schlemiel. It doesn't make up for the overall weak plot premise.