Blind Date

Workaholic Walter Davis is under pressure to secure a deal for his employer to manage the vast assets of Japanese industrialist Yakamoto. Urgently needing a date for the dinner celebrating the deal, Walter's brother Ted offers him a blind date with his wife Susie's cousin Nadia. Ted and Susie warn Walter not to let Nadia drink alcohol as she loses control. Walter meets Nadia, finding her beautiful, sweet, and charming, but her obsessive and jealous ex-boyfriend David attacks Walter. After evading David, Walter takes Nadia to a recording studio to listen to his friend, and reveals to Nadia that he gave up his dream of being a musician for the security of a steady job. Despite the earlier warnings, he gives a reluctant Nadia some champagne. At the dinner with Yakamoto, Nadia quickly loses her inhibitions and acts impulsively, calling out Walter's colleague for attempting to seduce her, mocking a waiter for his condescending attitude, and inadvertently spraying Walter's boss with champagne. Her actions draw the ire of Yakamoto who expects women to be quiet and subservient. After Nadia convinces Yakamoto's meek wife to divorce him and take half his assets, the deal collapses and Walter is fired. Walter tries to return Nadia home, but they are repeatedly intercepted by David in vain attempts to reunite with Nadia. Upset, Nadia runs off to a disco, followed by Walter, and the pair reconcile while dancing. David arrives and instigates a bar brawl, during which Walter and Nadia escape. She suggests going to a friend's party but Walter insists on taking her home. When Walter arrives at the address Nadia provided, a truck tows the house away, his car is stripped of parts while he is distracted, and muggers accost him, hiding a gun in his car before fleeing as the police arrive. Nadia sobers up and expresses regret for her actions before Walter is forced to ram the pursuing David's car off the road. Manic from the night's events, Walter insists on taking Nadia to her friend's party, where he embarrasses her with his dishevelled appearance and erratic behaviour. David arrives and fights Walter until the latter finds the gun. He threatens David, but the police arrive and arrest the bloody and bruised Walter. The following morning, Nadia bails Walter out of jail. Walter tells Nadia that he never wants to see her again, but Nadia reminds Walter that he gave her alcohol despite being warned. She laments that she thought he was someone with whom she could fall in love, having initially found him sweet and generous. Feeling remorseful and with Walter facing years of imprisonment, Nadia asks David, a defense lawyer, to represent him. David accepts in exchange for Nadia agreeing to marry him, to her disgust. David's father, Judge Harold Bedford, despises his son, and agrees to declare Walter innocent if David relocates his life as far away as possible. Susie gives Walter a note from Nadia in which she says she will miss him and asks that he start playing the guitar again. As the wedding day approaches, Walter injects a box of chocolates with brandy and sends them to Nadia at David's parents's mansion, where the event will take place. Nadia unwittingly eats the chocolates, becomes inebriated, and disrupts the wedding, refusing to marry David because she is in love with someone else. Walter arrives and kisses Nadia, to the attendees's joy and David's ire. Sometime later, Walter and Nadia honeymoon on a beach. He plays the guitar for her while a celebratory bottle of Coca-Cola chills in a champagne bucket.

Plot from Blind Date (1987 film)CC BY-SA 4.0