My Date with Drew (2004)

Directors:

Jon Gunn
Brian Herzlinger

Release Date:

30 September 2005 (Norway)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

30 days, $1100, For an Ordinary Guy to Get a Date with Drew Barrymore

Plot:

"If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul." - Drew Barrymore. Ever since the second grade when he first saw her in E.T...

Plot Keywords:

Date | Video Camera | Crush | Obsession | Fan

Awards:

13 wins

Cast

Drew Barrymore	...	Herself
John August	...	Himself
Stephanie Bedell	...	Herself
Allison Burnett	...	Himself
Bill D'Elia	...	Himself
Kerry David	...	Herself
Sonya Dakar	...	Herself
George DelHoyo	...	Himself - Voice Trailer Guy
Dylan	...	Himself - Limo Driver
Corey Feldman	...	Himself
Ross Forooghi	...	Himself
Jon Gunn	...	Himself
Lisa Furst	...	Herself (as Lisa Gunn)
Lauren Hays	...	Herself
Brian Herzlinger	...	Himself

MPAA:

Rated PG for mild thematic elements and language.

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Brazil:14 | Finland:K-3 | Sweden:Btl | Iceland:L | Hong Kong:I | Singapore:PG | Portugal:M/6 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Lucky Crow Films

Trivia:

After the film was promoted with a disastrous internet spamming campaign that became increasingly abusive, the film has been cited by the authors of The Guerrila Filmmaker's Handbook as a textbook case of how not to launch a no-budget internet marketing campaign.

Quotes:

Brian Herzlinger: [refering to a sign with a Drew Barrymore Quote over the reception desk at E! Entertainment] If this was this was a risk I was suppose to take, then why did I feel like I was wasting my soul? I needed something to reassure me I was doing the right thing. You know, like a sign. And then as I was walking up to the reception desk... can you believe it? Right in front of me was a sign! I mean literally, it was... a sign!

Movie Connections:

References E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Soundtrack:

Working My Way Back to You

Great training video for wannabee stalkers

Proof that anyone with a video camera and enough desire can compete with the big boys. It's good to see that any schlub can now get his message out there rather than all the power in the hands of the elite. That being said, why anyone would have such a fixation on a human being they hardly know was disturbing. I'm glad that Drew Barrymore didn't seemed bothered by it, maybe she was relieved as she might have felt this guy wasn't a potential danger to her after meeting him. Watching him trying to get into shape in the time he had was ridiculous. A major problem I had with the movie though was I couldn't tell if the main character was gay or not, which created a lot of distracting dissonance.