Mystery Date

19911991
PG-13PG-13
1h 37m

Mystery Date (1991)

Tom's in love with the cute house sitter next door. He's too shy but his older brother visits and helps Tom with the first date. Things don't go as planned.

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Tom's in love with the cute house sitter next door. He's too shy but his older brother visits and helps Tom with the first date. Things don't go as planned.Tom's in love with the cute house sitter next door. He's too shy but his older brother visits and helps Tom with the first date. Things don't go as planned.Tom's in love with the cute house sitter next door. He's too shy but his older brother visits and helps Tom with the first date. Things don't go as planned.

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Mystery Date

Ethan Hawke and Teri Polo in Mystery Date (1991)

Ethan Hawke and Teri Polo in Mystery Date (1991)

Ethan Hawke and Teri Polo in Mystery Date (1991)

Teri Polo in Mystery Date (1991)

Ethan Hawke and Brian McNamara in Mystery Date (1991)

Ethan Hawke in Mystery Date (1991)

Ethan Hawke and Teri Polo in Mystery Date (1991)

Ethan Hawke in Mystery Date (1991)

Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Wacks in Mystery Date (1991)

Teri Polo in Mystery Date (1991)

Ethan Hawke and Brian McNamara in Mystery Date (1991)

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A teenage boy would like to meet with a very pretty, blonde girl who lives next door. His elder brother helps him with a car and a credit card to be successful. This simple story gets complicated because of the corpse in the trunk. From there, other nightmares begin . —Kornel Osvart <kornelo@alphanet.hu>

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Taglines
- Their first date may just be his last!
Genres
Certificate
- PG-13
Parents guide

Trivia
First lead in a feature film for both Teri Polo and Ethan Hawke.

Goofs
When Tom McHugh puts the birthday button on the drapes, the lights in the room are off. In the next shot, when Liu's henchman falls from the building the lights in the room are on.

Quotes
Tom: Isn't that illegal?
Craig: Tom, never let the law stand in the way of a good time.

Connections
Features RoboCop (1987)

Soundtracks
634-5789
Performed by Wilson Pickett
Written by Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd
Irving Music, Inc./Pronto Music, Inc.
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products

Top review

6/10

Interesting idea, pretty improbable ending

I caught "Mystery Date" on TV one night. It portrays nerdy Tom McHugh (Ethan Hawke) learning from older brother Craig (Brian McNamara) how to ask a girl out on a date. But when it comes time for the date, a series of things go wrong, and before you know it, the whole thing looks like Dave Barry's novel "Big Trouble".

I should identify that "Mystery Date" isn't a bad movie. It's just that the ending seemed a little improbable. Otherwise, most of the movie's acceptable. Victor Wong had a fairly goofy line, and it was interesting seeing Teri Polo in the years before she became the woman in "Meet the Parents".

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lee_eisenberg
Dec 26, 2005

Release date
- August 16, 1991 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- Таємне побачення
Filming locations
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Production company
- Orion Pictures
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Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $6,166,819
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,952,569
- Aug 18, 1991
Gross worldwide
- $6,166,819

See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

Runtime
1 hour 37 minutes
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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