Speed-Dating

Speed-Dating is a 2010 film written and directed by Joseph A. Elmore Jr. and starring Wesley Jonathan, Chris Elliott, and Holly Robinson Peete.

This article is about the film. For the activity, see Speed dating.
Speed-Dating
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJoseph A. Elmore Jr.
Produced byLa Monde Byrd
Mekita Faiye
Screenplay byJoseph A. Elmore Jr.
StarringWesley Jonathan
Chris Elliott
Holly Robinson Peete
Music byEvan Scot Hornsby
CinematographyDavid Daniel
Edited byTerry Walters
Production
company
Rockstone Releasing
Distributed byImage Entertainment
Release date
  • June 4, 2010 (2010-06-04)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$6,188

Plot

Best friends Dog (Chico Benymon) and Beaver (Leonard Robinson) have difficulty ever meeting women. No matter what they do, nothing ever goes right for them. That all changes when the best friend Too Cool (Wesley Jonathan) invites them to try out a round of speed dating.

Principal cast
ActorRole
Wesley JonathanToo Cool
Mekita FaiyeDanielle
Chico BenymonDog
Leonard RobinsonBeaver
Vanessa SimmonsElizabeth
Chris ElliottInspector Green
Holly Robinson PeeteGayle
Clint HowardDom
Camille ManaKiki

Reception

Jeanette Catsoulis from The New York Times disliked the picture:

A tired mash-up of every men-behaving-badly sitcom ever to grace a third-tier television network, Speed-Dating tries to coax laughs from characters so dated even Eddie Murphy would balk.[1]

On the other hand, Nick Pinkerton from The Village Voice gave the film a mixed to positive review:

With characters named Too Cool, Dog, and Beaver, Speed-Dating already won... A homemade vaudeville that’s likable enough to wear you down with its eager-to-please capering.[2]

gollark: Windows gives you forced updates, telemetry, Candy Crush, general resource wastage, randomly breaking other OSes you have installed, and in-OS advertising. Linux distros don't have this.
gollark: Wait, is it running it in a VM now or something?
gollark: I mean, I think you need to do some hackery to make GUI apps work, but generally most stuff is available, sure.
gollark: It has somewhat limited Linux available, sure, but you also get all the *wonderful* features of Windows.
gollark: Minetest plus some content mods, if you like...

See also

References
  1. Catsoulis, Jeannette (2010-09-30). "Three Men Behaving (Really) Badly - NYTimes.com". Movies.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
  2. Nick Pinkerton (2010-09-29). "Speed-Dating film review". Village Voice. Retrieved 2011-07-12.


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