![]() As the nurse runs up to the soldier, the camera switches, revealing that this is a film scene. The film received mixed reviews from critics and earned $17.1 million in the United States and $4.2 million overseas for a worldwide total of $21.3 million, making it a commercial failure against a $22 million budget.Ī soldier and nurse emerge from two 1940s-style cars in the middle of the night. The character's name of Tad Hamilton has been seen as a cross between the names of screen idols Tab Hunter and George Hamilton. The film follows a small-town girl (Bosworth) who wins a contest for a date with a male celebrity (Duhamel) and a love triangle forms between the girl, the star and the girl's best friend (Grace). Like a transitional scene.Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Victor Levin and starring Kate Bosworth, Topher Grace, Josh Duhamel, Gary Cole, Ginnifer Goodwin, Sean Hayes and Nathan Lane. A couple of scenes later, however, the pal is propositioning Tad with some rather blue language. "He's probably at church," answers the Goodwin character, as if it's really 1943. "I wonder what he's doing right now?" Rosalee asks dreamily. In an early scene, she and Rosalee watch Tad onscreen in a cheesy World War II romance. Ginnifer Goodwin ("Mona Lisa Smile") brings effervescence to her role as Rosalee's other friend, despite a disturbing character shift. Immature and sarcastic, he won't reveal his feelings to Rosalee, but he will make snide remarks about the movie star, and by extension, Rosalee's judgment. The likable beanpole from "That '70s Show" does what he can, but this guy is a pill. The romantic triangle quickly hits a roadblock, however, in Grace's character. Yet Rosalee is supposed to be a 22-year-old innocent who lives with her dad and hangs out with her two co-workers from the Piggly Wiggly.īosworth has less chemistry with Duhamel than she does with Topher Grace, who plays a co-worker and childhood friend secretly in love with her. ![]() A young woman this polished and good-looking, whether from West Virginia or West Covina, would certainly know how to behave around guys. That's a lot of layers for a lark like this.īoswell has trouble with Rosalee's down-home expressions, as if she's embarrassed to say the words, and with her character's tongue-tied awkwardness around Tad. ![]() Duhamel is an actor playing an actor who's not aware he's acting in his real life. His business people (Sean Hayes and Nathan Lane, the only actors here who seem to know they're in an Elvis movie) keep pointing out his flakiness, but Tad doesn't get it. When Tad goes to West Virginia to bask in Rosalee's realness, he doesn't consider that she might be just another between-pictures diversion, like Kabbalah. He's always a pleasure to watch, and not just because he benefits from the most flattering lighting since "The Mirror Has Two Faces." The TV heartthrob ("Vegas," "All My Children") brings surprising nuance to an ostensibly shallow character, a guy who's not really bad, just caught up in his own celebrity. Veering from throwback innocence to modern cynicism, the movie is neither a compelling underdog story nor an especially funny romantic comedy.īut it does have Duhamel. ![]() But the "Tad Hamilton" filmmakers, aiming to please teens and adults - and judging from the shirtless shots of Duhamel, gay men of all ages - have hedged their bets. Oh, those celebrities and their selfless good works!īosworth's ("Blue Crush") ultrawhite teeth and chiseled cheekbones would not be so striking had "Win a Date With Tad Hamilton" been made in the broad comic vein of "Legally Blonde," director Robert Luketic's previous film. The winner, a little ol' gal from West Virginia named Rosalee (Kate Bosworth), turns out to be an accentless, self-possessed stunner. A bad-boy actor (Josh Duhamel) out to rehab his image offers a date for charity.
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