Win a Date perfect film for alpha males
Brian Abrams
reporter

 Alpha Males: I won’t lie to you. Win a Date with Tad Ham-ilton! is exactly what you think it is.
There is no mud wrestling, nude or otherwise, or mercenaries falling down the elevator shaft, plunging to their deaths.
There’s no man-eating cyborg invading the Pentagon with only one man left in the bathroom to save his wife and child before they are taken back to the evil lairs by the bad monsters.
No, the movie’s called Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! for a reason.
Don’t get lost during my plot summary; just realize the purpose of the film … maybe you can win a date and take her to it.
The title character (Josh Duhamel) needs to polish up his lifestyle, so his management team (Nathan Lane, Sean Hayes) drums up a contest for him to woo one of his fans for a night.
That fan happens to be Rosalee Futch (Kate Bosworth). Now that’s a plus for all Alpha Males!
Rosalee, of course, falls for the movie star, six feet tall, wavy brown hair and bleached white chompers.
Well, you’ve seen the poster; you know what he looks like.
So where’s the big conflict? Rosalee and Tad hit it off, but Rosalee’s boss (Topher Grace) gets involved with her as well.
Thus, the love triangle begins, and that’s when most male audience members begin to snore, and the females begin to bounce.
But so what?
At least Rosalee’s dad is played by character actor Gary Cole (Office Space), so you’re assured some good laughs. (See interview with Cole included.)
Alpha Males: It’s a cute movie, all right?
Don’t expect Casablanca or anything, but I’ll say this much: it beats out the director’s (Robert Luketic) last film, Legally Blonde.
Of course, I don’t know how convincing that may be after all to the males reading this review.
Go ahead; take your woman. Win a Date is a better way to court than having her sit through four hours of hobbits and elves, believe me.

He’s another underrated talent in the business.
His roles have ranged from television to motion pictures, from crime drama to slapstick comedy, from lead actor to character actor, yet Gary Cole doesn’t get the attention he deserves.
Then again, just mention one of his roles from a 1999 comedy and light bulbs go off in every college kid’s head in America.
“God bless Office Space,” he said during a recent interview.
“Right now it’s probably the most identifiable thing that I’ve done. It pushed a button, and that’s great,” he said.
“When a connection is made on something, that’s the best you can hope for.”
Of course we’re referring to his role of Lumbergh, the archetypal boss loathed by all his suicidal employees.
In that role, he conveys a mid-western, monotonous vocal that, in real-time, would put you to sleep.
On-screen, however, it has you laughing afterward for days, especially that infamous, deadpan, simply put interjectory, “Yeah.”
Cole has a supporting role in Dreamworks’ Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, which was released Friday.
As the father of Rosalee (Kate Bosworth), Cole’s character badly wants to see his daughter end up with the bo-hunk movie star, Tad Hamilton.
Before thinking practically about his daughter’s love life or emotions, he gets as star struck as a 14-year old girl would over Mandy Moore.
The father is just in love with the idea of Hollywood—the glamour, the stars, the power.
“Traditionally, my character should be protective of the daughter, but he’s not,” he said.
“Instead, he buys into everything about being a celebrity and forgets the whole fatherly element. You know, actually being skeptical about who your daughter sees,” he said.
Cole has also been featured in almost 50 films such as One Hour Photo and I Spy, done voices for TV’s The Family Guy and memorably starred as Mike Brady in both The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel.
Though he’s been in the business more than 20 years, Cole doesn’t have the big say-so like some stars, and he’s okay with that.
“I’m never in that position when it comes to roles. I’m not stroking my chin and asking myself, ‘Gee, I wonder what choice I should make.’
“That’s not the reality. It’s more like ‘is the door open?’ Whatever’s presented in front of me, I try to make it work,” he said.
Still, one has to admit no man has ever fit into a pair of khaki pants with a baby blue oxford shirts and polished brown loafers better than Cole.
He personifies the ultimate boring white man, and he comes by it naturally—even when it’s a bad guy role as in A Simple Plan.
“A friend of mine saw A Simple Plan. When I showed up [on screen], he said, ‘Wait a minute now—Mr. Brady is an FBI guy? Something’s wrong here. Something’s gonna happen.’”
His fans anticipate more happening for Cole in the future.