Mystery Date

Starring:Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo, Brian McNamara, Fisher Stevens, B.D. Wong, Tony Rosato, Don S. Davis, James Hong, Victor Wong (III), Ping Wu, Duncan Fraser (II), Jerry Wasserman, Terry David Mulligan, Merrilyn Gann, Stephen Chang, Russell Jung, Michele Little, Allan Lysell, Donna Lysell, Keith Beardwood
Director: Jonathan Wacks
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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Two years before he let it all hang out in Boogie Nights, former rapper and Calvin Klein underwear model Mark Wahlberg played the psychotic boyfriend in this derivative but surprisingly effective thriller, aptly described by producer Brian Grazer as "Fatal Attraction for teens." Reese Witherspoon plays Nicole Walker, the unwitting teenager who gets the hots for David McCall (Wahlberg). David only seems like a nice guy until he gets upset by the girl's overly protective father. That's when hell breaks loose and the love-struck Romeo turns into a deadly threat who just won't go away. You'd think this kind of material would be beneath the talents of a fine director like James Foley (whose credits include At Close Range and Glengarry Glen Ross), but Foley gives the film just the right blend of style and tension to match Wahlberg's breakthrough role as an all-too-believable teenage maniac. You might feel silly afterwards, but don't be surprised if you find yourself getting caught up in the expertly manipulative suspense. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

entertainly good.......2007-05-14

I enjoyed the film and was happy to see such qulity of acting.

old glory.......2007-05-07

when watching this really good movie, you realize just how old it is. william petersen for starters just makes you want to watch him as grissom on csi, wahlberg straight off of calvin klein billboards and witherspoon centuries before winning her oscar for walk the line. well worth the watch it keeps you in the whole time.

Exciting, ultraviolent and way over the top.......2007-04-20

Neither Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, "CSI" star William Petersen nor "Fraser" girlfriend Amy Brenneman had hit their stride in TV and movies when this 1996 production was released, leaving only Hollywood bad girl Alyssa Milano as a name star in this teen version of "Fatal Attraction" that also mixes some affect from both the original and remake of "Cape Fear".

Wahlberg, who until this time had been known as rapper Mark E. Mark and a pinup underwear model, plays a psycho that matches physical skill with mental aptitude to alternately charm and terrorize high schooler Witherspoon, dad Peterson, and stepmom Brenneman. His role is metaphoric to the role Glenn Close played in "Fatal Attraction" while dad Peterson figures out right away he's a bad guy and warns daughter and wife of his bad deeds to come.

The film travels a predictable path to an apocalyptic closing scene where Wahlberg and his gang of four seek revenge on Peterson, who trashed their home. They come equipped with guns, other weapons and psychic terror to carry out their revenge...only to learn the family lives in an impregnable home. As you may guess, it turns out not to be impregnable after all. The movie closes with many scenes of ultraviolence where the ending is just as predicatable as the rest of the story.

What characterizes this film is its incredible violence. In one scene, a child of about 10 or 12 runs over a bad guy with a car. In another scene, stepmom Brenneman drills a hole through a bad guy's hand with a handheld motorized drill. Another time teen Witherspoon stabs her former boyfriend with a jagged edged piece of wood, leaving a gaping hole in his back. If this isn't enough, there is an animal beheading in the flick.

This is an exciting and involving film but its copycat story and level of violence work against its value as art. While there is a lot of shock value to keep you riveted to the screen, it become increasingly more over the top as it goes on. In that respect it reminded me of the 1979 opus "Fury", where scenes of incredible violence punctuated the final 30 minutes and essentially changed the value of the film.

"Fear", too, is a throwback to 1970s slasher and hate filled movies and operates in the same horizontal plane. It pretends to be a teen version of "Fatal Attraction" with some of the tension of "Cape Fear" but is actually more akin to "The Hills Have Eyes" with violent criminals taking the place of "The Hills'" flesh eating wackos. Meanwhile, Mark Wahlberg's psycho has none of the artistry that Robert Mitchum and Robert DeNiro displayed in the original and remade "Cape Fear".

I think it a good idea to show some fear before buying this and bringing it home if you have children under age 17. If you are a teen and/or want a cheap thrill, excitement and violence, this is your cup of tea.

Real Cool!!!!!.......2007-04-10

For some odd reason,just watched this for the first time on TV,a month ago.I am a big fan of Wahlberg and loved it. Purchased the DVD,at a local entertainment store. If you like Wahlberg or any other cast member and a fan of suspense,this is for you. Check it out!!!!!

awful.......2007-03-10

slow shipment.The dvd case was blank.The dvd inside was dirty.I had to clean it.

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Typical '80's Cheesefest
The Adventures of Sonar Boy and the case of the Killer Cabbie...
AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!
More blind than anything else.
A viewer got it right!

Blind Date
Starring: Joseph Bottoms , Kirstie Alley , James Daughton , Lana Clarkson , and Keir Dullea
Director: Nico Mastorakis
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ASIN: B00007ELED
Release Date: 2003-01-14

Description

Accidentally blinded, John Ratcliff (Joseph Bottoms) has a "seeing eye" computer chip implanted directly into his brain, only to witness a murder and see the serial killer--but only in bold outline. The cat and mouse game begins in this riveting shocker featuring Kirstie Alley, "Star Trek: The Next Generation's" Marina Sirtis, and "2001: A Space Odyseey's" Keir Dullea. Now available for the first time in Nico Mastorakis' director's cut, "Blind Date" has been newly remastered and features extensive bonus material including never before seen footage of Kirstie Alley's daring love scene.

Customer Reviews:

Typical '80's Cheesefest.......2005-09-14

Just finished watching this after having it for about a year or so and finally getting around to it. Well, I guess I could've waited even longer because it wasn't very good or really worth seeing at any particular time. I've seen worse so I was still able to sit through it and besides, it's loaded with typical nondescript 1980's music by unknown acts (at least here in the States, probably), bad acting, bad photography, bad special effects, bad writing and bad directing, so watching it was a kind of excercise in sadomasochistic patience. If you're a connoisseur of bad films then this one will certainly delight you.

The Adventures of Sonar Boy and the case of the Killer Cabbie..........2005-08-28

So what is the main appeal of the film Blind Date (1984)? It's not the acting, and definitely not the story...well, if you're a Star Trek fan, how about the chance to see a topless Kirstie Alley (Lt. Saavik in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan) and Marina Sirtis (councilor Deanna Troi from the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" television series)? Four good reasons right there, if you ask me...produced, written, and directed by Nico Mastorakis (The Zero Boys, Ninja Academy), who's sort of a Greek Roger Corman, the film stars Joseph `I'm not Timothy' Bottoms (The Black Hole) and the aforementioned Kirstie Alley, albeit a much slimmer one than the Pier One/Jenny Craig pimpette we're familiar with today. Also appearing is James `Greg Marmalard' Daughton (Animal House, Spies Like Us), Lana Clarkson (Deathstalker, Barbarian Queen), a name certainly known to any lover of bad movies, and Keir Dullea, probably best known for his role as Dr. Dave Bowman in Stanley Kubrick's seminal science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)...you've come a long way, boyo...

The film starts out at a carnival, with a woman leaving via a cab. On arriving home, she strips (exposing some large nips), showers, and then hears a noise that she proceeds to investigate. Turns out, not only hasn't the cabbie left, but he's entered her home, perhaps for a better tip...nope, he's there to operate (literally) as he chloroforms the woman and pulls out a scalpel...we then switch to meet our main character named Jonathon Ratcliff (Bottoms), an American in Greece, working as an executive for an ad agency. During a swimsuit photo session in a mall (yes, that's a young Valeria Golino in a bikini), he thinks he recognizes one of the models as a girl from his past, but can't be sure...back at the office we meet Jonathan's braless girlfriend/co-worker Claire Simpson (Alley), to which they meet up again later at her place for Jonathon's birthday celebration which involves a little boom shakalaka with Claire (hello boobage), and I'm reminded of a saying involving not dipping your pen in the company ink...anyway, Jonathan becomes somewhat obsessive over the model he thinks is a woman from his past (turns out she suffered an incident, while in his company, one which he couldn't prevent) and begins stalking her, but ends up hurting himself badly after a chance meeting with a low hanging tree branch. Subsequently he's now blind, but learns of an experimental procedure involving sonar and a visual synthesizer that might allow him to see again. He signs up, and the operation's a success to some degree...he can see, by using implants in conjunction with a device that looks a hell of a lot like a Walkman, which creates only outlines sans the details, but hey, Atari-Vision is better than nothing, right? By chance, Jonathan witnesses one of the serial killer's murders, and now is being stalked by said killer, who picks up on the woman Jonathan thought he knew from so long ago...Jonathan realizes this, and now the hunted becomes the hunter as he must do what he was unable to do so long ago in protecting the woman he thinks is the girl he once loved...

I mentioned that Nico Mastorakis (who, by the way, sure likes breasts, as much as he shows them) reminds me of the Greek version of Roger Corman because they both make cheap films, often using actors who to gain popularity later in their careers, or else actors who were more popular, and have since fallen into the cinematic equivalent of purgatory, relegated to appearing in craptacular films like this...surprisingly, I thought the film had some really decent production values, but then again, it's probably fairly inexpensive to shoot in Greece than in America (the film is set and shot in Athens). As for the rest, well...touted as an erotic thriller, it was hardly erotic, and hardly thrilling, especially given the lack of interest in the characters. A bunch of topless women hardly qualifies as erotic, along with two characters I could care less about rolling around between the sheets. In terms of thrilling, the whole serial killer aspect was quite lame, especially since all we know is he's someone who drives a cab, all of his victims being comely woman who he just gave a lift to, and wears Velcro strapped shoes (which I thought were only worn by people unable to tie their own shoes like small children or extremely old men)...we know this because any shots featuring the killer are either annoying point of view (POV) shots, or even more annoying shots of the killer's extremities (his feet as he's walking, or his hands as he's preparing to `operate')...any halfway competent police force would have picked this guy up in relatively short order, but the movie is scattered with scenes of him attacking one woman after another...and this is where Marina Sirtis comes in...she's not a character in the story, but a victim. She plays a streetwalker who gets a ride home in the cab, and subsequently suffers the same fate as a number of others. I will say Ms. Sirtis had, at the time, an amazing set of sweater puppies, which we get to see in great detail...oh Councilor Troi! As far as Kirstie Alley's breakout scene, it is brief but there, and worth it...and, if you want to see more, watch the included featurette titled `The Films of Nico Mastorakis (Part One)' as they include the omitted footage of said scene, a good deal of it removed at the time for fear it would have been too racy. The plot is relatively straightforward, but complicated with a lot of nonsense like Jonathan, after becoming blind, venturing out into the world. He ends up in a subway, attacked by a gang of youths who appear to be rejects from the cast of West Side Story. Later on, after his operation and his somewhat restored vision, he returns to the subway where he was beaten and robbed under the pretense of being blind, hoping to confront those same street ruffians, and beats the snot out of them with the aide of a lead filled walking stick, which is about as violent as the film gets, as all of the serial killer sequences end right before he begins his cutting. And then there's the obsequious 80s rock musical scoring...egads! Too bad the killer didn't do away with the composer...that would have certainly been a victimless crime. All in all the film really isn't worth seeing, except if'n you got the Jones to see some boobage of starlets who later became famous (you know I do). If you're looking for a wonderfully suspenseful story featuring a blind character tormented by a sadistic killer, check out the 1968 film Wait Until Dark, featuring Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin.

The widescreen (1.85:1), enhanced for 16X9 TVs, picture on this DVD looks decent, but does contain minor print damage at a number of points. The DVD case claims this is a remastered director's cut, so I would have to hated to seen what it looked like prior. The audio comes through well, and claims Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, along with Dolby Digital Stereo. Special features include a trailer for the film, a featurette titled `The Films of Nico Mastorakis (Part One)', which runs about 56 minutes and is worth watching for the omitted Kirstie Alley romp scenes, isolated music tracks (oh the horror), filmographies/biographies, and previews for other Nico Mastorakis films including In the Cold of the Night (1991), Sky High (1985), Bloodstone (1988), and .com for Murder (2002). All in all 2 stars for the film, plus one extra for the fleshy pillows...

Cookieman108

By the way, after the credits end, there's text stating Jonathan Ratcliff, the main character in this film, will return in Run, Stumble, and Fall...I checked, and, surprisingly, no such films has yet to be made...wishful thinking on Mastorakis' part, I suppose...

AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!! .......2005-08-10

This is a B movie. But it takes itself too seriously and has no charm. The acting is wooden particularly that of Joseph Bottoms. The incongruous accents with greek thugs speaking in Clockwork Orange voices really jars. The little bits of gratuitous nudity are ludicrously interposed and if you buy the movie for the Kirstie Alley scenes you will feel fairly short changed.
The plot might have worked with a decent writer, decent director and better acting but it doesn't have any of these.

More blind than anything else........2005-05-02

I must say that this movie felt like a cross between THE TWILIGHT ZONE and SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.

The plot of the story is very bizarre. First, there is a serial killer on the loose. Second, a man goes blind from a knock on the head. Third, the blind man uses a souped-up walkman that allows him to "see." Fourth, the blind man somehow is able to track down the serial killer.

If you choose to sit through the entire movie, then never mind the summation. However, the whole film comes across like a very long, drawn out joke that has a cheesy punchline. Also, the special effects are absurdly bad (even by 1980s standards).

About the only thing the movie has going for it is a healthy amount of nudity, including a topless scene of STAR TREK's Mirina Sirtis. There is a flash of Kirstie Alley's nipple, but it IS only a flash and it is in the dark. Not enough to justify the cost of the DVD.

If you like to see "B" movies with "A" movie actors, this one might be worth seeing - for curiousity's sake. I have no idea how Kirstie Alley ended up in this one after being in some big-name films. Bottom line with this one: buyer beware.

A viewer got it right!.......2005-04-03

A Viewer got it right except he gave it one to many stars.
Disjointed and boring. Skip this one!

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Enjoyable Trash
This movie is great!!!
plot holes
worth seeing, provided...
Four stars for four fifths of the film.

Gossip
Starring: James Marsden , Lena Headey , Norman Reedus , Kate Hudson , and Eric Bogosian
Director: Davis Guggenheim
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ASIN: B00004YA67
Release Date: 2000-10-31

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Gossip is one of a spate of movies that owe a lot to Cruel Intentions. This time it's rich kids in college, but other than that Gossip stays well within the beautiful-young-people-doing-awful-things-to-each other formula. Lena Heady plays Jones, obviously the Smart Girl because she is briefly seen wearing glasses. Jones hangs out with Arty Guy Travis and Handsome Rich Guy Derrick, who finances their adventures and has a little bit of a lying habit. The three are all in the same journalism class (acidic monologist Eric Bogosian plays the acidic professor) and decide to start and track a rumor for their term papers. They pick rich and beautiful couple Beau and Naomi (Joshua Jackson and Kate Hudson) as the focus of the rumor, and before you know it their juicy story starts spinning out of control into ugly territory and a truly ludicrous climax. There are attempts at making sledgehammer points about the slippery task of finding Truth, but mostly Gossip is about the guilty pleasure of watching pretty young actors be mean to each other. You'll hate yourself in the morning, but watch it anyway. --Ali Davis

Description

College jounalism students plant a trashy rumor about a celibate co-ed, planning to track how the story changes as it burns through the university. But what the students never imagine is that the savagely mutating tale will turn against them.

DVD Features:
Alternate endings
Audio Commentary:Commentary by D. Guggenheim, J. Mardsen
Deleted Scenes:Deleted Scenes - 11:07
Filmographies
Interactive Menus
Music Video
Other:Travis's gossip Interviews "Grab Bag"
Scene Access
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

Enjoyable Trash.......2007-03-26

Gossip is far from a masterpiece, but is good, trashy fun, as long as you don't take it very seriously. The film, about some sleazy and wholly unbelievable goings-on at a college, is shot like an advertisement, and has a lot of gorgeous actors and actresses (Kate Hudson, the lovely Lena Headey -it's a pity she's not more famous) and the ending is unconvincing, but if you accept the whole artificiality of the concept, you will enjoy it as much as I did.

This movie is great!!!.......2006-08-31

I loved the cast in this movie, I am huge Kate Hudson fan.What makes the movie great is the moral which is, if the gossip gets too visious, then something like______ could happen 9If i told you what _______ was, then I'd be wrecking the not only the twist, but ironically enough, the moral itself. Worth a glance...

plot holes.......2006-02-14

The first half hour of this 90 minute movie is actually quite good. In fact, it is enthralling and has an interesting twist in that we don't know the real fact behind whether a young woman was violated by her boyfriend while unconscious. According to the rumor (the rumor being a school experiment conducted by three roommates) she was, however, but we the audience don't know that. However, the young woman is quick to think she has been raped. Why there is no attempt at a physical exam, is unexplained, especially since the young woman involved has the reputation of being a professional virgin, however it turns out she isn't, so that's why the movie lasts longer than 30 minutes. Fortunately, we're not dealing with unwanted pregnancies, either, so this doesn't turn into a soap opera. However, we do have the dreamboat "hero" who dreams up the rumor about her being raped, and who exhibits unlikeable traits throughout. But that's true of the three leads - the roommates are all unlikeable, being insufferably full of themselves. The last half of the film, 'dreamboat' takes the turn as lead character, and it's his story we're following, whereas his female roommate had the first half of the film, and basically it's her introduction to the audience of all the characters. Turns out 'dreamboat' and the young woman victim have a history together; which means issues they have to work out, and everyone else (in a way, the entire student body and its faculty and local law enforcement) is sucked into their story and mutual thirst for truth, though the characters don't have the same truth in mind - it's about vengeance; not justice. And vengeance when it's not the comic book variety, isn't fun for an audience, it's just distasteful. In other words, the man and woman should have been shut up together in a room so they could have worked it out for themselves, and left the rest of us alone. So from a brilliant first half-hour - and btw how does the roommate penniless art student have the dollars for all that tech equipment? - we degenerate into a constantly weaving pattern of lies and deceptions that seems more pointless than clever. There is merely too much story, so it becomes ridiculous. A basically good premise is ruined. If you are a fan of any of the stars involved, it might be worth viewing, if only once, but the film as a whole will probably leave a vile taste in your mouth. Perhaps that's the ultimate message on a film about the dangers of spreading GOSSIP, or in this case deliberate lies, is that what goes around comes around, and also it will leave you feeling sick to your stomach. I almost recommend you watch the first 30-45 min then quit midway, but anyone will watch all the way thru at least once, just to be sure where this is headed.

worth seeing, provided..........2006-02-02

First of all, this is not a teenage movie, it is a movie for grown-ups. Teenagers will neither understand nor appreciate this film. The opening scenes are like Dante's circles of hell rather than scenes of a cool place.

Second, fans of Marsden will hate this movie. Marsden plays a bad guy in this. A lot of films recently have a main character who is obnoxious for 85 minutes, then miraculously turns into a good guy. In this movie, the bad buy remains bad throughout. This fact accounts for virtually all of the bad reviews below. Fans wanted Marsden to turn into a good guy. He doesn't. That does not mean the ending is wrong.

For grownups who are not fans, this movie is worth seeing. The main character is the Lena Headey character, who is quite sympathetic. I would have given the movie 4 stars except for one scene in which she gives herself to the Marsden character. This was not only repulsive but seemed out of character. Luckily, only the beginning is shown before the scene cuts. If you can stomach this scene or fast-forward over it, you'll have a four-star movie. (The other scene in which the girl throws up when she tries to have sex with the Marsden character seemed much more appropriate.)

This is a movie about people's beliefs and what happens when people form opinions based on hearsay rather than on evidence. In this case, the hearsay is gossip. In other cases, it's radio and TV talk shows, or magazine and newspaper articles. Relying on the fact that other people have reached the same conclusion is a poor substitute for evidence.

In this story, the victims turn and avenge themselves on the perpetrator. If you prefer to see the bad guys triumph, then this movie is not for you. But for many people, the ending will be most gratifying.

Four stars for four fifths of the film. .......2005-04-23

Great up until the end. Even the end, indeed was very good, huge twist, massive climax; but the writers were blinded by their own prejudices, and wrote it wrong.

Basically, the script was fine, except for who had the lines. If you have the last fifteen minutes of the film, with Derrick and Beau reading each other's lines; the film makes moral and physical sense. It sticks to the point, that gossip is dangerous, and also, bad. And also, you'd have an ironic enlightening enlightenment at the end, what with Cathy and Travis being forced to come forward, and fight through an image of hypocracy that would be forced upon them, due to their actions.

The writers could then have ended the film with a whole righting of wrongs, especially the wrongs of the past. Seeing as the film was largely about digging up the secret past, to discover the truth that is affecting the present, it would have been fitting that the past could have been laid to rest. As the ending currently stands, Cathy and Travis seem to get off scot free, appearing to be angels, while the Truth of the past is still uncertain, as is that of the present, Derrick takes the fall for the second time, although it's not clear if this is or not, simply his second victimisation, and Beau, and Joshua Jackson go unchecked to the finale, maintaining the victim status that, at the outset of the film, is set up to be questioned, due to the character of their characters.

All in all, fantastic characters, fantastic direction, fantastic locations, shots, music, art, fan-bloody-tastic.

But the writers ballsed up the script!!!

Meh, no matter, whenever I watch the film, I just pretend that all the emotion is the same, but that it's all the other way round.

Sort of like watching Cruel Intentions, which is all about INTENTIONS, and feeling cheated when Sebastian gets hit by a car. HIT BY A CAR. WHY OH WHY wasn't he MURDERED? THAT WOULD HAVE MADE SENSE. Murdered by anyone, Kathryn, the black dude, the mother of Cecile. Hit by a car is bloody lame, and pointless, completely devoid of INTENTION of any kind. And that's the way Gossip went.

Anyway, for those of you who don't mind having to stop watching cruel intentions just before Sebastian is killed, you won't mind having to imagine the ending to Gossip in a different way.

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Train Ride Is The REAL DEAL!
Train Ride
DUKE UNIVERSITY RIGHT NOW!!!!
colorblind drama to be lauded
not just important for females to see

Train Ride
Starring: Sean Anderson (VII) , Thomas Braxton Jr. , Joe Clair , Rel Dowdell , and Egypt (IV)
Director: Rel Dowdell
Manufacturer: Sony
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ASIN: B00079Z9S2
Release Date: 2005-03-15

Description

A riveting thriller that follows the harrowing events surrounding a brutal attack on a college campus. Staring: Wood Harris(HBO The Wire, and Remember the Titans) and Hip Hop Star Mc Lite.

Customer Reviews:

Train Ride Is The REAL DEAL!.......2006-08-14

This movie was an excellent tale of the reality happening on college campuses and other venues as well. It is a true eye opener that tugs at the heart and made me very concerned about the lack of morality among this generation and the need for more positive role models. I am going to spread the word because everyone needs to see this movie, especially teens and young adults. There is a great lesson to be learned and I pray that someone will take heed. Carolyn aka Bunny in Philly

Train Ride.......2006-07-09

Everyone should see this movie. Especially if you have young children who are 'growing-up' in this crazy world. It was an eye-opener for me, in fact after watching the movie, I had this feeling of concern. Concerned if my nieces and God Children and friend's kids are actually aware of what is happening out there, just by hanging out with your friends. Friends who you thought you knew and trusted. I'm not going to give the story away, just BUY and WATCH this MOVIE.... Rel Dowdell and his team did a great job of 'telling it like it is' with taste. A very educational film.

DUKE UNIVERSITY RIGHT NOW!!!!.......2006-05-06

Yo! The filmmaker of this joint had some serious foresight. EVERYONE AT DULE UNIVERSITY should be made to watch this. This film could have saved them much embarassment and shame. Now that school's reputation will never be the same. People don't think that the things that happen in "Train Ride" can happen anywhere else, but it does. "Train Ride" takes place at a fictional black college, but as you can plainly see with the current scandalous events that took place at Duke University with the WHITE lacrosse team and the BLACK female dancer from nearby black college North Carolina Central, it can happen anywhere. Gotta give the writer/director props for making a super universal film that is more than in tune with current events than anything else out there. Duke University, R. Kelly, Mystikal, Kid Rock, Jayne Kennedy, Snoop Dogg, Rob Lowe, Paris Hilton, the wrestler Chyna, Pamela Anderson, Colin Farrell, the rapper Eve.. all have elements of "Train Ride" scandal somewhere in their lives that has made the world have a lesser opinion of them. Notice the diversity of the races of the names just mentioned. It happens to all races and classes. Get this joint and see the present day, the past, and the future of sexual relations gone terribly wrong, exploited, and untimately destroyed by greed, lust, and power.

colorblind drama to be lauded.......2006-05-06

This film is like being a fly on the wall watching lives unravel in an unfortunate and sad way. You feel compelled to watch. The ending surprised the crap out me. It had a new twist on what could have been old hat. In fact, it's the kind of ending that you have to see again to believe. I'm talking about the scene in the alley with the three male principals. Wood Harris yells, "We got options! We can run if we want too!" In reality, too much damage is done to ever turn back. The train went off the track and lives were destroyed forever because of insensitivity and selfishness. This film blows the lid off of any college drama done before, especially "Higher Learning." The casting was right on the money as well. Singleton's film may have had more money behind it, but definitely not more skill. Good job all around.

not just important for females to see.......2006-05-06

Females and males alike can get a lot from this film. One of the biggest problems in society today is the lack of respect that the current generation has for one another, especially on the dating tip. The characters in the film are not just black characters, they are any character u.s.a. I know the things that go on in this film are going on everywhere in this country, people are just scared to talk about it. This film is going to hit real close to home for many people for men and women. This is a great thing, because in the end, this film can help people heal or deal with this kind of ordeal, or better yet, it could save someone's life who may have been naive. The money is costs to check out this film is a bargain compared to years of therapy if the things in this film really happen to someone. That's the truth. Flick of choice for 2006.

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Fun
Mystery Date 3/5
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A Wonderfully Funny Romantic Comedy......

Mystery Date
Starring: Ethan Hawke , Teri Polo , Brian McNamara , Fisher Stevens , and B.D. Wong
Director: Jonathan Wacks
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ASIN: B0000714C0
Release Date: 2003-01-07

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A Risky Business clone with loftier ambitions, Mystery Date holds up surprisingly well despite its '80s teen-flick trappings. This was Ethan Hawke's follow-up to the successful family adventure White Fang, and it's fun to watch the fresh-faced future Mr. Uma Thurman playing a shy guy named Tom who's obsessed with his dishy neighbor Geena (then-newcomer Teri Polo, in '80s big-hair splendor). When Tom's criminally entangled brother (Brian McNamara) manipulates Tom into a mistaken-identity date with Geena, they soon find themselves chased by a crazed delivery driver (Fisher Stevens), a hot-headed L.A. detective (SCTV alumnus Tony Rosato), and a Chinese mob kingpin (B.D. Wong) whose henchmen are named Ben and Jerry (giving some indication of this movie's dim sense of humor). Plot twists proliferate, and Polo (who had to wait until 2000's Meet the Parents for another decent movie role) manages to flatten her funniest line of dialogue. All of which makes Mystery Date a hit or miss affair, but mostly it hits. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Love this movie!.......2007-05-07

I love the movie and would give it 5 stars but the DVD has no extra features so the movie is 5 stars but the DVD its self is 4 stars. This movie is a little older (Early 90's) But I've watched it from way back when. It's a movie I had on vidio and watch it so much that the tape started to warp. (But I watch movies while I work on things where most people play music.) I like romantic comadies and I love the inxs music, but I don't know if younger generations would agree. I could tell you that my older brother and my mom liked this movie back when I first got the VHS but that was probly in 1997. Hope this helped.

Fun.......2004-03-29

This movie offers a lot of funs. The story moves very well to me. The most important thing is that I'm very happy after watching this one (even after watching a couple of times). Just love it (one of my favorites of all time)

Mystery Date 3/5.......2004-02-24

The title explains it all. Mystery Date is about a young man(ethan hawke) who falls in love with his next door neighbor. His older brother encoureges him to invite her out for a night on the town. But things suddenly take a turn for the worst when he discovers a body in the trunk of his brother's car.

P.S. notice the costume dwelling rock band. It's Gwar!

blackcomedyheaven.......2003-10-16

I need to buy this movie. one of my favorites of Ethan Hawke. its about Hawke who is in love with his next door neighbor played by the fantasically beautiful Teri Polo and his brother(Bill McNamara) sets him up on the date. suddenly people mistake him for his brother who turns out to be a hit man and things start to happen that are crazy. B.D. Wong is a scream.

A Wonderfully Funny Romantic Comedy.............2003-04-19

"Mystery Date" stars Ethan Hawke (Training Day) and Teri Polo (Meet The Parents) in a great romantic-comedy that is sure to be loved by everyone. Geena (Polo) stars as the gorgeous neighbour of Tom (Hawke), whom he is completely infatuated with. Tom tries to get the nerve to ask her out, but fails at every turn. A surprise visit from his older brother (Brian McNamara) brings a bit of luck Tom's way. Through a bit of work, Tom's brother sets him up on a date with Geena. Things couldn't be better, except for the small of exception of a little bit of mistaken identity on the part of Tom. For some reason, people think he's his older brother. Over the course of the evening the duo have run-ins with a maniacal flower delivery boy (Fisher Stevens), paid-off cops, a crime lord and other trouble. Do the two escape alive, or does this spell the end of Tom and Geena? I highly recommend this movie as the laughs are plenty. Many people are sure to relate to this romantic-comedy about a first-date. Ethan and Teri do wonderful jobs in their respective rolls and the movie has got a pretty decent transfer too. The disc has both widescreen and fullscreen versions of the movie, in addition to the original trailer. Watch, enjoy, laugh, and you will not be disappointed.

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