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Need help dating? This movie's for you

Tom Hasslinger | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 13 years, 5 months AGO
by Tom Hasslinger
| June 17, 2011 9:00 PM

Do you want to date a really good looking woman?

Of course you do, but you can't, because your game is lame.

You wanna know how bad you are at talking to really good looking women? Two local filmmakers are making a comedy movie about your silly attempts.

Kind of.

"It's funny," said Mark Case, the filmmaker who's producing the movie, 'How To Date Beautiful Women,' with composer and filmmaker Gary Edwards. "Yet it's serious."

Serious because people don't want to be alone.

Funny, because guys like you are really bad about going about it.

The movie, which will be filmed around Coeur d'Alene beginning in July, is a mix of comedy and reality. The premise takes 10 local women from a variety of professional backgrounds who seriously answer 30 questions about the ins and outs of dating and what they look for in a man. They'll also share some of the really corny lines they've heard from a variety of lameos, meat heads and dorks. They'll also share some of the good lines they've heard, which you need to learn.

Those answers will be mixed with footage of two hilarious narrator types - karaoke master Randy Porter and Deanar Young, who was part of the Broadway "Lion King" musical and toured with Stevie Wonder - reacting and dropping comedy bits around the responses.

The key to talking to beautiful women, the film team says, is confidence.

And you need to be interesting, as in you need to have interesting things to talk about. News flash, poindexter, gorgeous women don't care about your video game scores or your fantasy baseball team.

"I always got something to talk about," said Young, who actually has a cool life. "You can't have nothing to talk about and go up to a woman and say, 'You wanna go get a drink?' Because after that then what?"

After that you talk about playing beer-pong, and she walks away.

The film producers met through the local arts group, kNIFVES (Northwest Independent Film and Video Entertainment Society) but it's their first big project together. Case, whose Hollywood stage name is Marque Case Chantal, has been in the film industry for 25 years, he said, having moved to Coeur d'Alene from Los Angeles five years ago. He worked on special effects for the 1989 movie 'The Abyss' as well as on the Batmobile miniatures for the Batman movies, while Edwards' composing career has stretched for 40 years of pieces that have played across the region, including with the Coeur d'Alene Symphony.

The movie will have a PG rating, and will dive into the dynamics of what makes a successful relationship, such as compatible personalities - you know, that soul defining thing you don't have.

The team is looking for four more women to answer the questions, but serious offers only.

No aspiring Snookies from MTV's reality show, "Jersey Shore."

It's a six-week project, and a distribution deal has been reached with Omni Entertainment, a domestic distributor who sells through Walmart and other big box retailers, although it's unknown when and where the movies should be selling, Case said.

The team will be filming scripted parts from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. July 6-7 at Carlin Bay Resort at Harrison, and they'll be filming impromptu scenes there on July 2.

Info: Stogie Group International L.L.C. at stogiegroupint@hotmail.com.

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