Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! [Blu-ray]

Director: Robert Luketic Robert Luketic

Overview

Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde) directs the romantic comedy Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! from a screenplay by TV scriptwriter Victor Levin. Famous Hollywood actor Tad Hamilton (soap opera star Josh Duhamel making his film debut) is trying to promote his new movie. His manager (Sean Hayes) and his agent (Nathan Lane) both convince him to participate in a dating contest in order to improve his bad-boy image. The contest is won by Rosalee Futch (Kate Bosworth), an attractive young checkout girl who works at a Piggly Wiggly in West Virginia. When Tad ends up falling in love with her, he's willing to give up big-city life and move to small-town America. Meanwhile, her best friend and co-worker Pete (Topher Grace) is finally motivated to reveal his secret crush on her. Rosalee finds herself in the middle of a love triangle between her closest friend and a dream date.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/26/2022
UPC:	0191329218174
Original Release:	2004
Source:	Paramount
Language:	English
Time:	1:36:00
Sales rank:	25,212

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kate Bosworth	Rosalee Futch
Topher Grace	Pete
John Duhamel	Tad Hamilton,Tad Hamilton
Nathan Lane	Richard Levy the Driven
Sean Hayes	Richard Levy the Shameless
Gary Cole	Henry
Ginnifer Goodwin	Cathy Feely
Kathryn Hahn	Angelica
Octavia Spencer	Janine
Amy Smart	Nurse
Ren Trostle	Porsche Woman
Wendy Worthington	Customer
Stephen Tobolowsky	George Ruddy
Moon Bloodgood	Gorgeous Woman
Mary Jo Smith	Sonja
Joseph Convery	Mickey, Tad's Driver,Mickey, Tad's Driver
Deena Dill	Reporter
Bob Glouberman	Rosalee's Limo Driver
Sam Pancake	Hotel Clerk
Jay Underwood	Policeman Tom
Larry Agney	90-Year-Old Man
Willow Bay	Herself
Todd Eckert	Maitre d'
David Wolrod	Roger Bodger
Jessy Moss	Herself
Marshall Goodman	Himself
Danny Weissfeld	Himself
Caleb Speir	Himself
Peter Iovino	Paparazzi
Alex Kvassay	Pilot,Tad's Pilot
Patrick Thomas O'Brien	Father Newell
David Walrod	Roger Bodger
Kathryn Joosten	Mrs. Stemkowski
Ed Shearmur	Composer

Technical Credits

Victor Levin

Robert Luketic	Director
Victor Levin	Screenwriter
William S. Beasley	Executive Producer,Producer
Lucy Fisher	Producer
Freddie Hice	Stunts
Matt Kutcher	Special Effects
Gail Lyon	Executive Producer,Producer
Joseph Middleton	Casting
Douglas Wick	Producer,Producer
Mike Chock	Sound Effects
Michael Hertlein	Sound Effects
Scott Dwyer	Special Effects
Kenneth Van Order	Special Effects
David Ronne	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

For the first time in his film career, Topher Grace plays the kind of hands-in-pockets underdog hero that made him famous on the small screen, and it carries Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! pretty far. The other two-thirds of the love triangle -- Kate Bosworth as a perky convenience store clerk, Josh Duhamel as a studly movie star -- also work well, making the film a sweet little confection with a nostalgic 1950s ethos. The title itself hearkens back to a pre-ironic era when "dreamy" matinee idols made impressionable teens swoon, and the film is smart to keep that light sensibility, even set well within modern times. Events never careen toward the sensational, which means former TV scribe Victor Levin can give his characters the depth to exceed the one-dimensionality such a story might have engendered. In lesser hands, Duhamel's every move would have been laced with wrong intentions, while Grace would have been the "gracious" loser, as it were. Instead, Duhamel is fairly generous, and Grace fairly petty. It's amusing watching them jockey for position, trying to appeal to different aspects of Rosalee's persona, with Grace's Pete gradually losing any sway over her. Anyone in the audience who's lost a significant other to a flashier candidate will sympathize with the uphill task. The film has the pastel colorings and core sensibilities of director Robert Luketic's previous outing, Legally Blonde, without that film's oversimplifications and annoying caricatures. It's still essentially fluff, but it's slightly more substantial fluff.