on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 4.60/10. The website's consensus reads, "Blind Date has all the ingredients for a successful madcap comedy, but the end results suggest director Blake Edwards has lost his once-reliable touch." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half stars out of four and wrote: "There are individual moments in this movie that are as funny as anything Edwards has ever done, but they're mostly sight gags and don't grow out of the characters. The characters, alas, are the problem. Willis plays a nerd so successfully that he fades into the shrubbery and never really makes us care about his fate. Basinger, so ravishing in most of her movies, looks dowdy this time. Her hair is always in her eyes, and her eyes are her best feature. [...] Most of the time I wasn't laughing. But when I was laughing, I was genuinely laughing - there are some absolutely inspired moments". Variety calls it "essentially a running string of gags with snippets of catchy dialog in-between". Soundtrack The soundtrack to the motion picture was released by Rhino Records in 1987. Track listing "Simply Meant to Be" - Gary Morris & Jennifer Warnes "Let You Get Away" - Billy Vera & The Beaters "Oh, What a Nite" - Billy Vera & The Beaters "Anybody Seen Her?" - Billy Vera & The Beaters "Talked About Lover" - Keith L'Neire "Crash, Bang, Boom" - Hubert Tubbs "Something for Nash" - Henry Mancini "Treasures" - Stanley Jordan "Simply Meant to Be" (Instrumental) - Henry Mancini References External links 1987 films 1987 romantic comedy films American romantic comedy films American screwball comedy films 1980s English-language films American slapstick comedy films TriStar Pictures films Films scored by Henry Mancini Films directed by Blake Edwards Films with screenplays by Dale Launer 1980s American films