Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Ever since the second grade when he first saw her in E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Brian Herzlinger has had a crush on Drew Barrymore. Now, 20 years later he's decided to try to fulfill his lifelong dream by asking her for a date. There's one small problem: She's Drew Barrymore and he's, well, Brian Herzlinger, a broke 27-year-old aspiring filmmaker from New Jersey.
My Date with Drew is a charming low-budget documentary following an everyman's quixotic quest to ask Drew Barrymore on a date, leveraging the six-degrees-of-separation concept. The premise is genuinely endearing and the film has a warm, scrappy energy that makes it watchable, giving it slightly above-average novelty for its creative hook. However, the cinematography is rough and functional at best — shot on a consumer camera returned to Circuit City before the 30-day return policy expired — which is part of its charm but objectively below average. The 'acting' or on-screen presence of its non-professional subjects is uneven and sometimes stiff. The plot follows a predictable will-he-or-won't-he arc without much structural sophistication. The ending provides reasonable closure and a feel-good payoff, though not a particularly surprising one. A modest, likable film that punches slightly above the TMDB score suggests in terms of concept but not execution.