Blind Date (1987)

Storyline

Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company’s business dinner with a new important Japanese client. His brother sets him up with his wife’s cousin Nadia, who is new in town and wants to socialize, but he was warned that if she gets drunk, she loses control and becomes wild. How will the date turn out – especially when they encounter Nadia’s ex-boyfriend David? Blind Date, the 1987 Blake Edwards romantic comedy (“‘Do you recognize me? I used to be a respectable citizen. I had a good job and promising future. I made only one mistake-i went on a blind date. …Anybody got $10,000 for bail?'”; “A date with her is every man’s dream come true. And with dreams like her – who needs nightmares?”; “Written by Dale Launer”) starring Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, John Larroquette, William Daniels (best remembered for his role as Mark Craig on TV’s “St. Elsewhere”), Jane Darwell (great character actress who is best remembered as “Ma Joad” in “The Grapes of Wrath”), and Phil Hartman