Blind Dating (2006)

• Year: 2006
• Released: 26 Apr 2007
• Country: United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454084/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blind_dating
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Runtime: 95 min
• Writer: Christopher Theo
• Director: James Keach
• Cast: Chris Pine, Anjali Jay, Eddie Kaye Thomas
• Keywords: arranged marriage, blindness and impaired vision, blind date,

	6.0/10
	25% – Critics
	46% – Audience

Blind Dating Storyline

A charming young blind man signs up for a dangerous experimental procedure: brain surgery that may give him partial vision. While taking tests he falls hard for the lovely East Indian nurse, but she has been promised in an arranged marriage – a promise she feels she cannot break without dishonoring her family. But when the man’s brain surgery goes unexpectedly awry, the crisis effects a reunion between the two young lovers.

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Interesting conceptually, blindly executed

There are several good, interesting ideas that could have been explored in this movie – one is a blind young man, interested in a serious relationship and wanting to have sex with meaning — who doesn’t view himself as attractive — and how he goes about pursuing that relationship and what happens along the way. This movie could play as a drama with comedy or a comedy with drama. Another way it could have gone is the experience of a blind young man who undergoes experimental surgery and the outcome and difficulties encountered along the way. More than likely this would be mostly a drama. Finally, there’s the relationship between a blind man and a sighted woman, a romance based movie, either drama or comedy, or the relationship between a Caucasian American male and an female of Indian descent from a very traditional Indian family, and the difficulties they would encounter along the way, again a drama with some comedy more than likely.

Unfortunately, this movie overreached it grasp. There were some very good moments: the basketball game with the friend, the parents at the hospital while they await the outcome of the surgery, etc. But the whole isn’t even a sum of these parts — it’s a combination of movies that do not cohere in a way that one can call a success.

Its unfortunate: the idea of a romance comedy that isn’t simplistic, Boy meets Girl, Boy and Girl find love, encounter hindrance, break-up, but Love Wins Out, is a trite, tired formula. This movie had the promise to be a bit more than that, as DEFINITELY, MAYBE attempted and succeeded earlier this year. A longer running time would have helped and a better screenplay.

The performances was reasonably solid for the budget. Technically, the film is fine, location wise and situation some interesting choices. The biggest weakness is the plot, story and script.

Chris Pine deserves some better roles, to see what he can actually make with something more complex and intelligent. Some excellent character actors are wasted, although their performances are fine. There are some unfortunate and unnecessary stereotypes with both the Indian characters and the females set-ups that the Larry character attempts to hook up with Chris Pine’s role as Danny.

movie with split personality

Danny Valdessecchi (Chris Pine) is blind and everybody likes him. Girls think he’s hot and his psychiatrist Dr. Evans (Jane Seymour) can’t stop stripping in front of him. His inappropriate limo-driving brother Larry (Eddie Kaye Thomas) keeps trying to set him up to lose his virginity. He volunteers for experimental brain surgery to regain his eyesight. Leeza (Anjali Jay) is the new receptionist at the medical office. She has been promised to a traditional East Indian arranged marriage.

Chris Pine is an appealing photogenic guy. Brother Larry and the various girls seem to be trying for a wacky comedy. It’s not done that well but it looks worst next to the humorless Leeza. There is next-to-no chemistry between her and Danny. She might as well be in another movie from a stripping Jane Seymour. This movie has split personality and they don’t get along. Instead of trying to give Leeza her own dramatic story, the movie should try harder to incorporate her into his drama and give her some fun.

Unrealized Potential

Blind since birth “Danny” (Chris Pine) has never had a relationship with a woman and his brother “Larry” (Eddie Kaye Thomas) is intent on correcting this problem. Yet, although Danny is initially willing to go along with his brother’s match-making arrangements, he soon discovers that all of the women he has been set up with have issues of their own which completely turns him off. But then one day he meets a health care assistant named “Leeza” (Anjali Jay) who intrigues him very much. Likewise, she also has feelings for him as well. The only problem is that she is engaged to another man and because of her Hindu upbringing she has a great deal of difficulty in trying to break things off with him. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an okay romantic-comedy which is entertaining to a certain degree and definitely had some potential. Unfortunately, this film didn’t quite have enough comedy or romance to sustain my interest or elevate it any higher than a rating of average.