Movie: Win a Date with Tad Hamilton

[James]

Good flick I recomend it. Some clever writing and fun scenes. My only objection is that there wasn't a really clear reason why she made the decision she did . . ..

Trailer link . . .

http://www.winadatewithtadhamilton.com/trailer/

Review:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert...ws-tad23f.html

[MeLikey]

I liked the movie too, it was really cute.

[Lady Pi Phi]

This seems like a wait for DVD kind of movie...only because I don't think I could sit in a theatre filled with hundreds of 13 year old girls.

[ladybug1116]

Originally posted by James
Good flick I recomend it. Some clever writing and fun scenes. My only objection is that there wasn't a really clear reason why she made the decision she did . . ..

I agree it was a cute movie. However, I thought it was clear why she made her final decision...

[winnieb]

I was a cute movie. I would recommend it--- and the guy that plays Tad Hamilton (Josh ?????) is hot!!!!

[dzandiloo]

It was cute...Topher Grace plays unrequited love well, but seemed he was pretty much playing Eric Foreman with updated hair. I took my 6 year old, reluctantly, but then I couldn't figure out why it got a pg-13 rating, other than the few make-out sessions and 4 bad words.....

[James]

Intellectually it was a clear decision . . . but I agree with the review I posted, here is an excert:

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"Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!" could have had a similar effect, since there is a real possibility that Rosalee will wed the slick Tad instead of the steady Pete. But it doesn't have that kind of impact, because of a crucial misjudgment in the screenplay and casting. To begin with, Josh Duhamel is more appealing than Topher Grace -- maybe not in life, but certainly in this movie, where he seems sincere within the limits of his ability, while the store manager always seems to have a pebble in his shoe. And then the movie devotes much more screen time to Rosalee and Tad than to Rosalee and Pete -- so much more that even though we know the requirements of the formula, we expect it to be broken with a marriage to Tad. And yet -- what is the function of Pete, within the closed economy of a screenplay, except to be the hometown boy she should marry?

You can guess for yourself (very easily) what decision she finally comes to, but let me observe that the courtship between Rosalee and Tad is charming, warm, cute and applaudable, and that Pete spends a great deal of time grumping about in the store office and making plans to go off to Richmond and become a business major. In 1959, or any other year, a movie like this would have known enough to make Tad into more of a slickster. There is the strangest feeling at the end of the film that Rosalee might have made the wrong choice.

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Originally posted by ladybug1116
I agree it was a cute movie. However, I thought it was clear why she made her final decision...

[GeoffZ]

and the guy that plays Tad Hamilton (Josh ?????)

Josh Duhamel. I enjoyed this movie too. Some parts were a little sappy. But overall it was a cute. I liked the soundtrack too, especially that song "We Got More Bounce in California".

[MeLikey]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi

This seems like a wait for DVD kind of movie...only because I don't think I could sit in a theatre filled with hundreds of 13 year old girls.

Actually when I went there were people there who looked like they were in their 30s, they were laughing realllllly loud at certain parts too.

[James]

I had the same experience as Melikey, the crowd when I watched it was 20-30 plus.

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
This seems like a wait for DVD kind of movie...only because I don't think I could sit in a theatre filled with hundreds of 13 year old girls.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by MeLikey
[I]

Actually when I went there were people there who looked like they were in their 30s, they were laughing realllllly loud at certain parts too.

I went to see the late showing of the Butterfly effect and everyone who came pouring out of the theatre and everyone who was waiting to see the next showing looked about 12 or 13. Maybe it's just where I was.

[Cluey]

I went to see this Friday night with a teacher friend of mine and three of our high school students walked in after us - lol. Other than them, though, the crowd was mostly 20 somethings.

I put this movie in the brainless romantic comedy group. I enjoyed it, but it didn't require me to think at all. I did like Josh Duhamel, but I liked Topher Grace more. I've never really liked him before, so I did gain something while watching it -- a new item of interest

[KerriMarie]

Topher Grace is a freaking hottie. Mmmm, he's all scrawny...

[SigKapSmurf]

I thought that it was a really cute movie. When I went to see it we wnt on a Wednesday night so there was no one in the theater besides the 5 other girls I had come with. We all realy liked it though, I would reccomend it.

[MeLikey]

Topher Grace and Josh Duhamel... Kate Bosworth was a lucky lucky girl, and she has Orlando Bloom in real life, which makes her extra extra lucky.