Synopsis
Myles is divorced in L.A. He wants a love life and a film career. So he decides to go on 20 dates and find true love in front of a camera, making his first feature. His patient agent, Richard, finds a $60,000 investor, the shadowy Elie. Myles starts his search, sometimes telling his date she's being filmed, sometimes not. Elie wants sex and titillation, Myles wants it "real." Myles regularly talks with his old film teacher, Robert McKee, who wonders if love is possible in modern life. Half-way through the 20 dates, Myles meets Elisabeth; she's everything he desires and she likes him. Can he finish the 20 dates, satisfy Elie, and complete his film without losing Elisabeth?
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Cast
- Tia CarrereHerself
- Elisabeth WagnerElisabeth
- Richard ArlookThe Agent
- Robert McKeeHimself
- Elie SamahaVoice of the Producer (voice)
- Myles BerkowitzMyles
- Julie McCulloughSelf
Recommandations
- 63
USA Today
More amusing than a lot of expensive Hollywood comedies [26 February 1999, Life, p.5E] - 63
ReelViews
Would probably have been more enjoyable if Berkowitz was less irritating. As a character, his only redeeming quality is his self-deprecating humor. - 50
The A.V. Club
Fact or fiction, it's still fun, if never really compelling. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
It doesn't take a foolish romantic to hope that Myles and Elisabeth live happily ever after. The world just isn't ready for 20 More Dates. - 50
Chicago Reader
In 20 Dates Myles Berkowitz strings together one embarrassing moment after another and triumphs in a culture characterized by actorly artifice. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
Raging ego aside, the penny-ante hucksterism of his I'm-going-on-dates-to-get-famous-making-a-movie-about-dates approach is too cloying and opportunistic to bear. - 30
TV Guide Magazine
The film's most consistently entertaining element is Berkowitz's backer, a shady character named Elie Samaha who never appears on camera. Samaha's expletive-laden harangues, in which he orders Berkowitz to beef up the movie's T&A factor, are priceless. - 20
The New York Times
It must be said that Berkowitz's shamelessness and persistence aren't inevitably irresistible.