20 Dates (1999) **

Directed by Myles Berkowitz. With Myles Berkowitz, Elisabeth Wagner and Tia Carrere. A candid-eye documentary about a real-life L.A. filmmaker going on real dates with real women. Unfortunately, dating in front of an ever-present camera often creates serious intimacy problems. Hilarious at first, the film settles to a fairly monotonous routine, recovers in the second half, but becomes quite contrived near the end. An uneven effort.