Mystery Date

Mystery Date is a 1991 American teen comedy film directed by Jonathan Wacks and starring Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo, and Brian McNamara. Shock-rockers Gwar have a brief cameo in the film.

For the Milton Bradley board game, see see Mystery Date (game). For the Mad Men episode, see Mystery Date (Mad Men). For other uses, see Mystery Date (disambiguation).
Mystery Date
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJonathan Wacks
Produced byCathleen Summers
Written by
  • Parker Bennett
  • Terry Runte
Starring
Music byJohn Du Prez
CinematographyOliver Wood
Edited byTina Hirsch
Production
company
Cathleen Summers
Distributed byOrion Pictures
Release date
  • August 16, 1991 (1991-08-16)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States[1]
LanguageEnglish
Box office$6.2 million[2]

Plot

Tom McHugh (Hawke) quickly learns that his perfect big brother Craig (McNamara) isn't all he's cracked up to be while on a night on the town with the girl next door (Polo), during which Tom is harassed by unpleasant strangers, threatened by mobsters, pursued by police, attacked by an irate florist, accused of murder, and has his date kidnapped—all because everyone thinks he's Craig...and the classic 1959 DeSoto Firesweep he borrowed off his brother has two dead bodies in the trunk.

Cast

Reception

Mystery Date holds a 25% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on eight reviews; the average rating is 4.7/10.[3]

Desson Howe from The Washington Post wrote: "Mystery Date is an exclamation point movie. Built on nothing but zany high points, it survives entirely on plot surprise. Maybe this kind of Date is for you! But guess what! I'd rather be at the pub!"[4]

gollark: But if you ask "hey, random person, would you be willing to give up some amount of money/resources/etc to stop people dying of malaria", people will just mostly say no.
gollark: If you *ask* someone "hey, random person, would you like people in Africa to not die of malaria", they will obviously say yes. Abstractly speaking, people don't want people elsewhere to die of malaria.
gollark: Capitalism is why we have a massively effective (okay, mostly, some things are bad and need fixing, like intellectual property) economic engine here which can produce tons of stuff people want. But people *do not care* about diverting that to help faraway people they can't see.
gollark: Helping people elsewhere does mean somewhat fewer resources available here, and broadly speaking people do not actually want to make that tradeoff.
gollark: You don't particularly need that. You can just buy a cheaper phone and give charity £400 or something.

References
  1. "Just Another Night (1991)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  2. "Gross Taking from Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
  3. "Mystery Date (1991)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  4. "Washington Post Review". The Washington Post. 16 August 1991. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
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