My Date With Drew
2005, PG, 90 min.
Directed by Jon Gunn, Brian Herzlinger, Brett Winn, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

Not reviewed at press time. Filmmaker Brian Herzlinger documents his quest to win a date with Drew Barrymore in 30 days or less and make a film about it on a $1,100 budget. Although this documentary sounds maddeningly self-serving in a careerist sort of way and creepily obsessed in stalker terms, the film just won the HBO Comedy Arts Festival’s audience award and is reported to be a deft piece of work.

This article appears in August 12 • 2005.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.