![]() The supporting characters had me laughing out loud more frequently than I do throughout most comedies, and to accomplish that in a romantic comedy is a pretty impressive feat. (Seeing as how I'm a reviewer for a DVD website, obviously it's outside the realm of possibility for me to be able to test this myself.) I wasn't engrossed by the dominant romantic angle, something I can probably attribute to that pesky Y-chromosome, though I can see that appealing to the fairer sex. I say this purely theoretically, but Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! would probably play a lot better if watched with a wife or girlfriend. It's also nice to see a sweet comedy that doesn't fall prey to the banal humor that's littered these sorts of movies over the past five years. An eye-rolling chauffeur, hard-working staff of varying ethnicity indeterminate to Tad, a priest with an impressive familiarity of stale pick-up lines, a skeevy motel clerk, a heavily-tattoed bartender with eyes for 's these sorts of characters that make the movie worth watching. ![]() His attempts at bonding with Tad, spouting off Variety-speak while clad in industry T-shirts, made for some of the funniest moments in the entire movie. The same goes for Gary Cole, an actor I am a fan of, who plays Rosie's pop. The supporting cast also includes turns by two actors I wouldn't typically chalk myself up as fans of, Nathan Lane and Sean Hayes, who are used sparingly but kill almost every time they're on-screen. He's the type of talent that's almost effortlessly funny, and a character with Pete's dry sense of humor and tendency towards overreaction shouldn't exactly be alien to him. Grace is only just now really starting to build much of a filmography outside of That '70s Show, and if Tad Hamilton is any indication, he ought to have a pretty solid career ahead of him. Well, and Topher Grace, who's second-billed but spends enough time on the sidelines that it's easy to forget that he is a central character. Thankfully, this is a movie that's really buoyed by its supporting cast. Pete even mocks this sort of predictabity in the first few minutes. Tad's fish out of water angle, the romantic triangle pitting the shy hometown kid against the overblown celebrity for the heart of the wholesome lady fair.yeah, you've seen it before. The meat of Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! is an average romantic comedy, and the two characters who get the most screentime - Tad and Rosie - are by far the least interesting. Although Tad is genuine, it doesn't go over well with Rosie, who really starts to fall for him, or the insanely jealous Pete. He's decided to stay in West Virginia for a while to soak up some of Rosie's wholesomeness, and just to prove he has the best of intentions, Tad insists that he wants to keep their relationship strictly platonic. Just as Pete has a returned Rosie in a Piggly Wiggly backroom, ready to pour out his heart, in walks Tad. The more he gets to know her during their brief time together, the more Tad finds that he needs that kind of moral center to stay afloat in this overly-competitive business. Pete does fill Rosie in on some of the Jedi mindtricks to expect when she's spirited off to L.A., and Tad quickly tears through every page of that rulebook on their date. Frequently but grudgingly along for the ride is Pete Monash (Topher Grace That '70s Show), who has an unwavering crush on Rosie, yet hasn't mustered the nerve to tell her how he feels or even that he's bound for a move to Richmond. She's one of Tad's most fiercely loyal fans, and she and her pal-slash-co-worker Cathy (Ginnifer Goodwin) fawn over their screen idol, daydreaming about what he must be like in person. The winner is Rosalee Futch (Kate Bosworth Blue Crush), a cashier and grocery bagger at a Piggly Wiggly in Fraziers Bottom, West Virginia. Their plan involves a contest for charity where someone could.well, take a peek at the big, bold text at the top of the page. His agent, Richard Levey, and manager, Richard Levey (no relation played by Nathan Lane and Sean Hayes, respectively, or, um, maybe whatever the opposite of "respectively" is) depend on Tad to snag those seven figure checks in order to support their own opulent lifestyles, and they cobble together a scheme to clean up his image and land a role he's really been coveting. ![]() His box office appeal banks heavily on the wholesome flavor of character he portrays on-screen, in stark contrast to the liquor-addled, skirt-chasing lifestyle Tad leads when he's not pancaked in makeup on location. Tad Hamilton (Josh Duhamel) is an immensely successful actor, pulling in multimillion dollar paydays and is relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. So, the title is already kind of a plot synopsis, but I'll flesh it out a bit. ![]()
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