{"id":8855,"date":"2025-08-02T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/movies\/?p=8855"},"modified":"2025-08-02T15:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T19:02:01","slug":"mystery-date-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/movies\/mystery-date-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Date (1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/37647460\/height\/100\/width\/\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/theme\/custom\/tdest_id\/4706482\/custom-color\/87A93A\" height=\"100\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" 1=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" 2=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 3=\"oallowfullscreen\" 4=\"msallowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p data-start=\"280\" data-end=\"673\">This week on <em data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"73\">Shat the Movies<\/em>, it&#8217;s a date night gone completely off the rails with <em data-start=\"128\" data-end=\"142\">Mystery Date<\/em> (1991)! Ethan Hawke stars as a shy teen whose dream night with the girl next door spirals into chaos involving mistaken identity, a dead body, and a punk club performance by Gwar. Gene and Big D unpack the movie&#8217;s strange tone, chaotic plot, and missed opportunities for greatness. From creepy crushes to club culture, this dark comedy has more surprises than a trunk full of corpses. Does it hold up, or should this movie stay forgotten? Tune in to find out!.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1319\" data-end=\"1474\"><strong>Plot Summary:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Teenage Tom McHugh (Ethan Hawke) is madly in love with his ravishing next-door neighbor, Geena Matthews (Teri Polo), but becomes hopelessly tongue-tied whenever she&#8217;s around. When his parents go away on an impromptu road trip, his suave law student brother shows up and begins coaching Tom on how to pick up women. Things are going great until Tom discovers a body in the trunk of his brother&#8217;s car, and his perfect date with Geena takes multiple turns for the worse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Android: <a title=\"Android\" href=\"..\/..\/..\/android\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/android<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Apple\/iTunes: <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/apple<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Help Support the Podcast<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Contact Us: <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/contact\/\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/contact<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Commission Movie: <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/support\/\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/support<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Support with Paypal: <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/paypal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/paypal<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Support With Venmo: <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/venmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/venmo<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Shop Merchandise: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/shop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/shop<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Theme Song &#8211; Die Hard by Guyz Nite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/guyznite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/guyznite<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage Tom McHugh (Ethan Hawke) is madly in love with his ravishing next-door neighbor, Geena Matthews (Teri Polo), but becomes hopelessly tongue-tied whenever she&#8217;s around. When his parents go away on an impromptu road trip, his suave law student brother shows up and begins coaching Tom on how to pick up women. Things are going great until Tom discovers a body in the trunk of his brother&#8217;s car, and his perfect date with Geena takes multiple turns for the worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20624,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","category-all"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mystery Date (1991) Review - Shat the Movies Podcast<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Podcast Movie Reviews for the 1980&#039;s and 1990&#039;s Movies that we all loved growing up.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/movies\/mystery-date-1991\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mystery Date (1991) Review - 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