Yet for all its period-specific details, Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! also has a certain wholesome innocence that makes it unexpectedly timeless too.
As do the low-rise jeans, stick straight hair, non-stop pop songs, glossy cinematography, and garishly vibrant costuming. Though several Paris Hilton cameos wound up on the cutting room floor, Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! has a half-mocking, half-enthralled take on the excesses of celebrity culture that feels distinctly 2004.
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What She’s All That is to the late 1990s, Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! is to the mid-2000s: a teen movie that exaggerates the excesses of its an era in a way that toes the line between satire and celebration. Well, I’m pleased to report that while Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! isn’t quite as good as I remembered, it’s also far better than I feared it would be. Jeff Garcia goes after Mina Kimes in rant straight out of 1995įinally, There’s a Way to Play Wordle More Than Once a Dayġ2 Ways You Are Making Your House Look Cheap and Tacky The Jacksonville Jaguars Were Finalizing a Deal to Make Bryon Leftwich Their Head Coach-Until They Weren'tĭeWalt Recalls Chainsaws That Can Keep Running After Being Switched Off How would its 2004-era Hollywood fairy tale play now that Duhamel has moved on to playing rom-com dads and star Kate Bosworth (and to a lesser degree Topher Grace) have long since faded from the zeitgeist?
While Josh Duhamel will always be Tad Hamilton to me, the movie landed with a thud at the box office and hasn’t had any real cultural staying power since. Though I pride myself on having had fairly good rom-com taste as a teen, I had no idea how I’d feel revisiting Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! a decade and a half after it was in regular rotation as one of my favorites.