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| cinematography = [[Harry Stradling Jr.]]
| editing = Robert Pergament
| studio = Delphi Productions
| distributor = [[TriStar Pictures|Tri-Star Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1987|03|27}}
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| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $16 million<ref>[https://catalog.afi.com/Film/57564-BLIND-DATE ''Blind Date''] American Film Institute Catalog</ref>
| gross = $39.3 million<ref name="BOMOverall"/>
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==Plot==
Career-focused workaholic Walter Davis is under pressure to deliver on a major project that will see his employers manage the vast assets of Japanese industrialist Yakamoto. Urgently needing a date for the dinner celebrating the deal, Walter's brother Ted offers him a blind date with his wife Susie's cousin Nadia. Ted and Susie warn Walter not to let Nadia [[Alcohol intoxication|get drunk]] as she loses control.
Walter meets Nadia, finding her beautiful, sweet, and charming, but her obsessive ex-boyfriend David attacks Walter out of jealousy. After evading David, Walter takes Nadia to a recording studio to listen to his friend play guitar. David tells Nadia that he gave up his dreams of being an aspiring musician for the security of a steady job. Despite the warnings, he gives Nadia some champagne to relax. At the celebratory dinner with Yakamoto, Nadia quickly loses her inhibitions and begins acting impulsively, calling out Walter's colleague for attempting to seduce her, mocking a waiter for his condescending attitude, and inadvertently spraying Walter's boss with champagne. Her actions draw the ire of Yakamoto who expects women to be quiet and subservient. After Nadia convinces Yakamoto's meek wife to divorce him and take half his assets, the deal with Walter's employer collapses and he is fired.
After leaving the dinner, David repeatedly stalks and attacks Walter in vain attempts to reunite with Nadia. Upset at the encounters, Nadia asks Walter to stop the car so she can use a bathroom but she runs off to a disco. Walter follows and the pair reconcile while dancing together. David again finds them and instigates a bar brawl, during which Walter and Nadia escape. Nadia requests to be taken to a friend's party but Walter insists on taking her to her accommodation. Arriving at the address Nadia provides, the house is towed away on the back of a truck, Walter's car is stripped of parts while he is distracted, and he is accosted by muggers. They conceal a gun inside his car and flee when the police arrive who force the panicked Walter to undertake a sobriety test. Nadia sobers up and expresses regret for her actions before David returns; Walter rams David's car off the road. Manic from the night's events, Walter insists on taking Nadia to the party, where he embarasses her with his dishevelled appearance as he excessively drinks alcohol, plays with the food, and trips a waiter into the pool. David arrives and fights Walter until the latter finds the gun. He threatens David but the police arrive and arrest the bloody and bruised Walter.
The following morning, Nadia bails Walter out of jail. Walter tells Nadia that he never wants to see her again but Nadia reminds Walter that he gave her alcohol despite being warned. She laments that she thought he was someone with whom she could fall in love, having initially found him sweet and generous. Feeling guilty about the trouble she caused Walter and the years of imprisonment he faces, Nadia asks David, a defense lawyer, to represent him. David accepts in exchange for Nadia agreeing to marry him, to her disgust. David is despised by his father, Judge Harold Bedford, who agrees to declare Walter innocent if David relocates his life as far away as possible.
Susie gives Walter a note from Nadia in which she says she will miss him and asks that he start playing the guitar again. Walter injects a box of chocolates with brandy and sends them to Nadia at David's parents' mansion, where the wedding will take place. Nadia unwittingly eats the alcoholic chocolates, becomes inebriated, and disrupts the wedding, refusing to marry David because she is in love with someone else. Walter interrupts the event and kisses Nadia, to the attendees' joy and David's ire.
Sometime later, Walter and Nadia honeymoon on a beach. He plays the guitar for her while a celebratory bottle of Coca-Cola chills in a champagne bucket.
==Cast==
{{castlist|
* [[Bruce Willis]] as Walter Davis▼
* [[Kim Basinger]] as Nadia Gates
▲* [[Bruce Willis]] as Walter Davis
* [[John Larroquette]] as David Bedford
* [[William Daniels]] as Judge Harold Bedford
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* [[Armin Shimerman]] as French Waiter
* [[Brian George]] as Maitre d'
* [[Dick Durock]] as Bouncer
* [[Sab Shimono]] as Mr. Yakamoto
}}
==Production==
The film was originally intended for the recently married [[
[[Billy Vera & The Beaters]] appear in the bar scene, playing several songs.
==Reception==
===Box office===
On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 24%, based on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 4.60/10. The website's consensus reads, "''Blind Date'' has all the ingredients for a successful madcap comedy, but the end results suggest director Blake Edwards has lost his once-reliable touch."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1002571-blind_date/ |title= Blind Date (1987)|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=2022-05-09}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{Citation |title=Blind Date |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/blind-date-1987 |publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=2022-03-19}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.<ref name="CinemaScore">{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= CinemaScore |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 }}</ref>▼
{{See also|1987 in film}}
''Blind Date'' was released in the United States and Canada on March 27, 1987. During its opening weekend it grossed a total of $7.5{{spaces}}million from 1,251 theaters—an average of $6,020 per theater—making it the highest grossing film of the weekend, ahead of ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' ($5{{spaces}}million), in its 4th weekend of release, and ''[[Platoon (film)|Platoon]]'' ($3.9{{spaces}}million), in its fifteenth.<ref name="BOMWeekend1">{{cite web| url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/1987W13/?ref_=bo_rl_table_1 | title =Domestic 1987 Weekend 13 March 27-29, 1987 |website= [[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528043018/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/1987W13/?ref_=bo_rl_table_1 |archive-date=May 28, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> In its second weekend, ''Blind Date'' fell to the number 2 position with a $5.7{{spaces}}million gross, placing it behind the debuting ''[[Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol]]'' ($8.5{{spaces}}million) and ahead of ''Platoon'' ($4.7{{spaces}}million).<ref name="BOMWeekend2">{{cite web| url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/1987W14/?ref_=bo_rl_table_2 | title =Domestic 1987 Weekend 14 April 3-5, 1987 |website= [[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324120649/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/1987W14/?ref_=bo_rl_table_2 |archive-date=March 24, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> It fell to the number 3 position in its third weekend with a $4.1{{spaces}}million gross, behind ''Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol'' ($4.5{{spaces}}million) and the debuting ''[[The Secret of My Success (1987 film)|The Secret of My Success]]'' ($7.8{{spaces}}million).<ref name="BOMWeekend3">{{cite web| url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/1987W15/?ref_=bo_rl_table_3 | title =Domestic 1987 Weekend 15 April 10-12, 1987 |website= [[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528043004/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/1987W15/?ref_=bo_rl_table_3 |archive-date=May 28, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> ''Blind Date'' left the top-ten highest-grossing films after ten weeks.<ref name="BOMOverall">{{cite web| url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3947333121/weekend/ | title = ''Blind Date'' |website= [[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215041951/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2305197569/weekend/ |archive-date=December 15, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>
In total, ''Blind Date'' grossed $39.3{{spaces}}million, making it the 23rd-highest-grossing film of 1987 in the US and Canada.<ref name="BOMOverall"/><ref name="BOMDomestic1991">{{cite web| url =https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1987/?grossesOption=calendarGrosses | title = Domestic Box Office For 1987 |website= [[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=January 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714180806/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1987/?grossesOption=calendarGrosses |archive-date=July 14, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
===Critical response===
▲On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 24%, based on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 4.60/10. The website's consensus reads, "''Blind Date'' has all the ingredients for a successful madcap comedy, but the end results suggest director Blake Edwards has lost his once-reliable touch."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1002571-blind_date/ |title= Blind Date (1987)|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=2022-05-09}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{Citation |title=Blind Date |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/blind-date-1987 |publisher=[[
[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film two and a half stars out of four and wrote: "There are individual moments in this movie that are as funny as anything Edwards has ever done, but they're mostly [[Visual gag|sight gags]] and don't grow out of the characters. The characters, alas, are the problem. Willis plays a nerd so successfully that he fades into the shrubbery and never really makes us care about his fate. Basinger, so ravishing in most of her movies, looks dowdy this time. Her hair is always in her eyes, and her eyes are her best feature. [...] Most of the time I wasn't laughing. But when I was laughing, I was genuinely laughing - there are some absolutely inspired moments
==Soundtrack==
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