The Perfect Date (2019)

To save up for college, Brooks Rattigan creates an app where anyone can pay him to play the perfect stand-in boyfriend for any occasion.

Director:

Chris Nelson

Writers:

Steve Bloom, Randall Green

Stars:

Noah Centineo, Laura Marano, Odiseas Georgiadis

3 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Noah Centineo	...	Brooks Rattigan
Laura Marano	...	Celia Lieberman
Odiseas Georgiadis	...	Murph
Camila Mendes	...	Shelby Pace
Matt Walsh	...	Charlie Rattigan
Joe Chrest	...	Harvey Lieberman
Carrie Lazar	...	Lillian Lieberman
Alexander Biglane	...	Tuna Melt on Seven Grain (as Alex Biglane)
Blaine Kern III	...	Franklin
Zak Steiner	...	Reece
Ty Parker	...	Cartelli
Wayne Pére	...	Mr. Newhouse (as Wayne Pere)
Rhonda Johnson Dents	...	Mrs. Milligan
Maureen Brennan	...	Marjorie Strack
Autumn Walker	...	Leah

Storyline

Brooks Rattigan (Noah Centineo) has the academic chops to get into his dream Ivy League school, but what he's missing is an outstanding extracurricular - and the money. When he seizes on an opportunity to make some extra cash by posing as the boyfriend of a self-assured, combat boot-loving girl named Celia Lieberman (Laura Marano), he finds he has a knack for being the perfect stand-in. Together with his programmer friend Murph (Odiseas Georgiadis), Brooks launches an app selling himself as a plus-one for all occasions. Along the way, he meets the girl of his dreams (Camila Mendes). But when business starts to boom, Brooks must reassess everything he was once sure of.

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Plot Keywords:

father son relationship | reference to elon musk | reference to michael jordan | reference to barack obama | reference to michelle obama | 

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Taglines:

He's whoever you want him to be.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-14

Did You Know?

Trivia

Blaine Kern III and Phi Vu also worked together on Happy Death Day (2017) and Happy Death Day 2U (2019).

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Goofs

When the character Murph was designing the app for Brooks he said "Object C Infrastructure". A real developer would never have referred to a programming language in this way. You can also see that he is using VSCode to write the app, which is unusual for a developer writing an iPhone app. Most likely they would have used Xcode on a mac.

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Quotes

Charlie Rattigan: We are all just figuring it out as we go along. So the best you can do is reflect on who you were in the past and compare that to who you wanna be in the future and you split the difference. That's who you are now.

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Connections

References Seinfeld (1989)

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Soundtracks

Gold Silver Diamond
Performed by Generationals
Written by Grant Widmer and Edward Joyner
Courtesy of Polyvinyl Record Co.
Published by Rough Trade Publishing
By arrangement with Bank Robber Music

User Reviews

a flat story

Without the crazy ups and downs you may expect from a comedy. its just that there are nothing here that makes me laugh, just a smile inside, and the rest is just cattanooga cho cho, with a lot of conversations with different persons in different settings

i think this in one of the many netflix-production that will place itself in the basket of inrecognition, unless you like social network-work, and the freshnes of new juicy fruits entering the silver screen with beauty and galore . i think the cast does a decent job, with acceptable acting, but the story are to innovative anb the characters are too boring,so its lack of sting makes this flick a bit benign. the concept of ideas are good but a bit spoiled on the fun. the filming are ållreit, but the timeline and quantities of customers makes it a bit blurry.

so the grumpy old man says ok, but not more than that.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 April 2019 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Perfect Date

Filming Locations:

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ace Entertainment, Awesomeness Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1