


TAD HAMILTON MOVIE
"Meet the Celebrity" Contest: The film is a romantic comedy about a West Virginia grocery store clerk who wins a contest where the grand prize is a date with her favorite movie star, which inevitably leads to a Love Triangle developing between the two of them and one of her male friends.If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her.: Pete gives the standard respose to Tad, though he seems to lampshade how the physical threat is usually never delivered when he states that he might just use "vicious rhetoric.".Because if you do I swear to God I will tear you to pieces with my bare hands. Tad: I could never break Rosalee's heart, OK? Pete: So Tad, if there is even a chance that you could break her heart, please, just for her sake, walk away man. Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: When Pete concedes defeat to Tad in winning Rosalee's heart.Betty and Veronica: Long-time friend Pete is the Betty and superstar heartthrob Tad is the Veronica to Rosalee's Archie.The contest is in reality a trick designed behind Tad's back to clean up his image, which has been damaged by his hedonistic lifestyle, but the idea ends up backfiring, and the dream come true of Rosalee becomes a nightmare for Tad's PR people and, above all, for Pete. The occasion comes when she wins a contest whose big prize is a date with Tad, to the chagrin of her friend and co-worker Pete Monash (Grace), who is secretly in love with Rosalee. Rosalee Futch (Bosworth) works in a grocery store in West Virginia, and dreams of someday meeting her movie idol, Tad Hamilton (Duhamel). Unfortunately there is a whole bunch of not-very-good stuff when the music isn't playing, but that's why the good lord gave us remotes.Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Victor Levin, and starring Kate Bosworth, Topher Grace, Josh Duhamel, Gary Cole, Ginnifer Goodwin, Sean Hayes, and Nathan Lane. The DVD is way, way better than the movie, for great performances from folks like the O'Jays. Cue the love interest, which you've already figured is Lilly (Knowles), Darrin's girlfriend when they were in short pants (oh, that's right, she still is), who is the only talent in a choir that can't hold a tune. Jackson), who ran Darrin and his mom out of town 20 years ago because she sang in a bar as well as the choir. Cue the small-town in-fighting, led by Paulina, the church treasurer (LaTanya Richardson, who is Mrs Samuel L. His Aunt Sally dies back in Montecarlo, Georgia, and leaves him $150,000 on condition he takes over her church choir and takes it to the big Gospel Explosion contest. Cuba Gooding jnr stars as Darrin, an advertising exec who is sacked from his big job in NY. So we won't: it's a likeable movie with a lot of fine gospel music, and she comes across as a better performer (no, didn't say actor) than you might expect. It would be easy to dismiss The Fighting Temptations as a musical vehicle designed to give Beyonce Knowles an easy ride in her first starring role. The DVD's only - extra is 16 deleted scenes, several of which feature Paris Hilton, which the movie doesn't.

but this is a formula rom-com that is nicely set up, well played, and just alittle off-centre. Well, you know how these things go: sometime very close to the end of the movie Rosalee will have to make a decision, and you probably think you already know what it will be. She has a wonderful time in LA - and the last thing she expects is that Tad will follow her home to Fraser's Bottom. Life changes when Rosalee wins a date with Tad Hamilton (Josh Duhamel), a movie star who has had a little PR trouble lately: speedin', drinkin', chasin' wimmin and litterin'. The manager, Pete Monash (Topher Grace), loves her but is too shy to tell her.

stars Kate Bosworth as Rosalee Futch, on the checkout clerk at the Piggly Wiggly store in Fraser's Bottom, West Virginia. Reviewed by EWAN McDONALD Herald ratings * * * Win A Date.
