First Date (2021)

Jack and I enjoyed this crime caper about a nice young man trying to impress a girl and getting into all kinds of hijinks involving a 1965 Chrysler. The independent movie was nominated for the NEXT Innovator award at Sundance earlier this year. Maybe that's how it came onto my radar.

Co-directed and co-written by Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp, it stars Tyson Brown as our hero and Shelby Duclos as his date.

The music by Crosby, Kevin Kentera, and Noah Lowdermilk is not available online. I might add that Crosby was also cinematographer and co-editor.

This is the feature debut for Brown, Duclos, Kentera, and Lowdermilk. Crosby has worked on quite a few shorts in most departments but this is his first time as a feature director or writer. Knapp directed and co-wrote (and did just about everything else on) one other feature, for which Crosby composed the music with Knapp.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics aren't likely to ask for a second date, averaging 53%, but its audiences might consider it at 79.

We paid a fee to rent it on iTunes/Apple TV on July 13 and have no regrets.