Would I recommend it? I guess, but mostly to desperate middle-aged women. The film is very well directed by James Keach, much better than the script. They’re fine in such a toothlessly light indie rom-com. Together, they make a nice screen couple. I was never convinced he was blind, but I did go along with the fact that he was playing a blind guy. It’s easy to see why they picked him as Captain Kirk. Christopher Theo’s script is really unclever, witless stuff, and I kind of resent that he uses Indian culture as a plot device. And that’s all if you go along with the premise! Otherwise, it’s obvious and insufferably overlong. It’s done as a sweet drama but has the insincerity of a weak sitcom. It moves from one slow, clunky scene to the next oh-so-snappy scene. Everyone banters loudly and theatrically, and gives broad performances. Just incredibly languorous padding.īlind Dating is one of those competently done indies that’s not very commercial in a way that the whole project is then effectively unsalvageable. He gets her back to his place, but after her wild erotic dance figures out he’s blind and leaves angrily. There’s every conceivable mishap, drawn out, but it works. There’s some jokes about condoms, and then the big date. Larry sets up a date with a girl who doesn’t know Danny is blind, and Danny rehearses the part. We see Leeza isn’t really into her arranged beau, and is resistant to him. “At the end of the day, you’d rather be with someone who can see rather than some asshole blind guy.” For a long time, the film just spins its wheels. It’s a very transparent situation, but he still blames it on the fact that he’s blind. She breaks it to Danny, which is cruel after all their dating. She knows her family will disapprove, and so much of her future has already been arranged for her. They keep going on these dates and enjoying each other’s company, but when they kiss it’s too much for Leeza and she backs off. Leeza, though, is in an arranged marriage with Arvind (Sendhil Ramamurthy), an insensitive jerk.ĭanny and Leeza go for a sweet little picnic at a baseball field, backed by a pleasant, twinkly acoustic soundtrack. His visits to the hospital allow him to get closer acquainted with Leeza. And a psychotic woman who blindfolds herself so she can see like him. Trying to help his brother, Lenny sets his brother up on a series of dates, each wackier than the next! There’s the extremely sensitive girl (Jayma Mays) who cries about how brave Danny is. He also meets a nice Indian girl, a secretary named Leeza (Anjali Jay). Perkins (Stephen Tobolowsky) tells Danny he’d be risking half his brain for a blurry gray image that wouldn’t even allow him to dodge objects. When they find out Danny has signed up for an experimental surgery that may give him sight, his mom says, “You’re a guinea! Not a guinea pig!” At the hospital, Dr. His loquacious Italian family is very supportive, though. His brother Larry (Eddie Kaye Thomas), a driver, takes extra money from hookers so they can have private sex in the back of his limousine. His friend Jay (Pooch Hall) uses him to hustle basketball players. His closet-nudist doctor (Jane Seymour) strips in front of him (“Doc, are you naked again?”). He doesn’t use a cane, because he doesn’t like to think he’s blind. He doesn’t know if he’s handsome, and laments that he’s a virgin. Danny’s family is concerned about how he is dealing with his blindness.ĭanny (Chris Pine) is blind, and insecure.
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