![]() Despite all appearance to the contrary, this movie has got a lot going for it. Review: It’s not the sort of film that makes you think “Oscar.” First, there’s the title, “Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!” which sounds an awful lot like a game show. In these prurient times it is no small feat to make virtue seem more sensible (and yes, sexier) than the Paris Hilton-Christina Aguilera alternative.Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content, some drug references and language)Īctors: Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel, Topher Grace, Gary Cole, Ginnifer Goodwin Without simpering, preaching or seeming prissy or mawkish, she conveys Rosalee's feet-on-the-ground optimism and innate wisdom with total ease. Bosworth who carries off the movie's toughest balancing act. Grace, who oozes sincerity and likability, make appealing rivals.īut it is Ms. ![]() Duhamel, who resembles a taller, younger, more handsome Tom Cruise with a dash of Charlie Sheen's roguishness, and Mr. Except for the two cynical, wisecracking Richard Levys, the movie is as sweet and nice as a heart-shaped candy. ''Win a Date With Tad Hamilton,'' which opens nationwide today, is really a 1950's movie magazine fantasy dressed up just enough to pass for contemporary. Hometown Nice Guy speak up and fight for his true love? Will Tad end up whisking Rosalee off to a glamorous new life in Hollywood, or will Mr. As he takes Rosalee on a whirlwind tour of local fast-food restaurants and pool halls, her boss at the grocery store, Pete (Topher Grace), who has been secretly in love with her for years, suffers in silence. Ultimately, Tad is so disarmed by Rosalee's goodness and her grounded sense of values that he later pays a surprise visit to Fraziers Bottom, intending to hang out with her and absorb more of her goodness. Tad sweeps Rosalee off to Los Angeles in a chartered jet, and the two have a nearly perfect date whose only blemish is an unfortunate episode of car sickness in the limousine on the way to a fancy restaurant. In both movies the princess-in-waiting must choose between two dreamboats: a handsome, urbane smoothie and a modest Mr. ![]() Its ridiculous notion of down-home is not the only thing ''Tad Hamilton'' has in common with ''Sweet Home Alabama.'' Robert Luketic, the director of ''Tad Hamilton,'' made his Hollywood debut with ''Legally Blonde,'' the movie that catapulted Ms. Witherspoon's character in ''Sweet Home Alabama,'' might as well be Tobacco Road. The place is so bland that, by comparison, Pigeon Creek, the jolly hometown of Ms. Va., a rural backwater that except for a dingy motel is indistinguishable from a suburb of Los Angeles. Her character, Rosalee Futch, is a star-struck grocery clerk at a Piggy Wiggly market in Fraziers Bottom, W. And ''Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!,'' a romantic comedy that has all the edge of an overstuffed cream puff, is just the sort of innocuous vehicle that can carry an aspiring princess another step closer to becoming America's Sweetheart. She is neither too brainy nor too much of an airhead for mass appeal. Witherspoon's mystique of thrust-chin goody-goodiness, without seeming namby-pamby. Her aura of fresh-scrubbed integrity is a softer version of Ms. Roberts and the pre-Las Vegas Britney Spears. ![]() Bosworth's wide-open face suggests a blend of the younger Ms. This 21-year-old actress, who made a big splash in ''Blue Crush,'' has the glow. Right now there is no more likely candidate for that peppermint tiara than Kate Bosworth. Now that Julia Roberts is 36 and Reese Witherspoon 27, the time has come to begin grooming another blushing ingénue to take a turn as the people's princess, Hollywood-style. ![]()
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