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First Date

2021

Manuel Crosby, Darren Knapp

Tyson Brown, Shelby Duclos, Jesse Janzen, Nicole Berry ...

4.5

109

Comedy. Mystery Mike, a high school kid with a crush, finally summons the courage to ask Kelsey out on a date. With a date but no wheels, Mike borrows money and gets duped into buying a clunker ’65 Chrysler. Although many a first date goes awry, Mike’s swiftly descends into a surreal misadventure that finds him inexplicably targeted by a pair of cops, a criminal gang, and a vengeful cat lady—with all roads leading to a showdown.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"While the two young thesps acquit themselves nicely, much around them conspires to prevent their debut from being a memorable one."	NEU
United States	Tomris Laffly Variety	"A haphazard all-nighter crime-comedy that’s mostly unfunny and free of convincing suspense (...) How could the results feel genuine when the whole premise is based on an utterly unrealistic hypothesis?"	NEG
United States	Kristy Puchko rogerebert.com	"[It] feels like a child of the Coen Bros' crime comedies (...) However, this duo of writer/directors hasn't yet mastered a Coen-level skill for balancing tone."	NEU
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"While this lively crime comedy doesn’t exactly break new ground, it does, in the form of an appealingly naive central performance from Brown, have a disarming, sweet-natured charm at its heart."	POS
United States	Ben Pearson SlashFilm	"The best thing I can say about [it] (...) is that it almost never takes its foot off the gas (...) But that fast pace means the film never stays in one place for very long"	NEU
United States	Mark Hanson Slant	"It’s up to the zany supporting cast to inject the film with some life—a difficult task when they’re saddled with a script full of confusingly aimless plot turns, clunky one-liners, and meaningless references (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG

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