![]() So smitten is Tad with Rosalee that he decides to follow her back to West Virginia, so that some of her goodness can "rub off" on him. The theatre has a marquee and the movies that Tad stars in seem to be from the fifties.īoth girls enter the contest and Rosalee wins, heading off to her date, which, despite her small-town gaucherie, is a success. That '70s Show), who secretly holds a torch for Rosalee, scoffs at their obsession.Īpart from Pete's spiky hair and matching personality, Frasier's Bottom also seems to be in a time warp. Va., checkout girls at the local Piggy-Wiggy supermarket, Rosalee Futch (Kate Bosworth) and Cathy Feely (Ginnifer Goodwin), swoon over Tad at the local theatre. The plan: a big national contest where one lucky girl gets to win a date with him.īack in Frasier's Bottom, W. His manager and his agent, played by Nathan Lane and Sean Hayes (and both named Richard Levy) insist that he make a grand gesture to prove he's the boy-next-door type. The title character of Tad Hamilton, played by formerĪll My Children actor Josh Duhamel, is your standard Hollywood tear-about, who sleeps around, drinks excessively and drives too fast. Legally Blonde) owes to Birdieland is the fact that his movie takes place in a time warp, more One obvious indication of the debt that director Robert Luketic ( When the small-town girl (played by a sizzling Ann-Margret in the 1963 movie) wins, it throws her entire town into an uproar and turns her father into a Hollywood-smitten sycophant. He holds a national contest to have a teenage girl give the rock star his farewell kiss on Tad Hamilton has mentioned it, the movie's obvious model isīye Bye Birdie, the 1960 Broadway musical in which a teen idol, Conrad Birdie, has just been drafted and the promoter needs one big publicity bonanza to recoup his investment. About 20 minutes into this exercise in broad comedy and old-fashioned sentiment, you remember what's missing: The big song and dance numbers! Though nobody connected to The fable-like premise - a small town is turned upside down when a local girl earns the romantic attention of a Hollywood heartthrob - has a definite whiff of familiarity. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton is a youth film with an appealing cast and not much idea what to do with it.
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