20 Dates

All Myles Berkowitz wanted was a chance to save his career and his love life. What he got was… 20 Dates, Myles Berkowitz wrote and directed this mock documentary about a filmmaker who gets a producer to finance his personal search for a girlfriend, filming the odyssey on a $60,000 budget. In the opening credits, Berkowitz tries to drive onto studio lots without success. His first date observes that the film is really only about himself, and his second date exits the restaurant and doesn’t return. After a discussion with script analyst Robert McKee, he decides to use hidden cameras — which bring only the threats of lawsuits. After he meets shop girl Elisabeth (Elisabeth Wagner) and they become a twosome, he attempts to renegotiate his contract by stopping at 17 instead of 20 dates. This film was awarded the audience prize at the 1998 Slamdance Film Festival., This offbeat and original documentary chronicles the Los Angeles dating scene by focusing on lovelorn filmmaker Myles Berkowitz, who brings a cameraman and soundman to record his romantic rendezvous with a number of women. Tia Carrere has a cameo as one of his dates. Elisabeth Wagner., This funny movie takes the form of a spoof documentary starring and directed by Myles Berkowitz, a divorced would-be filmmaker who just wants to find true love. So he decides to set himself up with 20 dates, all of which he’ll record on camera, in the hope that he will meet his perfect woman somewhere along the way! Watch out for Tia Carrere, playing herself.