Not afraid of trying a little writer/director film, this one was turned off after about 22 minutes.

Seems I'm not the only one
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/19/sundance-my-thoughts-on-stanley-tuccis-blind-date/

http://www.ioncinema.com/movie/id/5455
SYNOPSIS - This is a remake of the late Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh's film. This is about a married couple who very tragically lost their child in a car accident. Since the child's death they've been unable to spend time together, and they can't not be together, so they sort of meet on blind dates and role-play as strangers.

However, I am now interested in seeing Interview by Steve Buscemi!

EDIT: This evening I will have a stiff drink of Diet Mtn Dew and complete Blind Date so as to provide a rule abiding, poly-sentence analytical review of it's screenplay's dialog and action, theme, strengths and weaknesses, technical merits and overall effect.


Second EDIT:
I don't know where to begin this review.
None of the following comes in any particular hierarchy of descending importance.
So, here goes...

Sound engineer needs to go back to working at the Weiner Queen drive-thru window.
Learn to use your booms, your lapels. Practice your foley, ADR and voice/music mix. 35% music works good for me.
Not that I missed anything important, but I couldn't understand a quarter of what they said.

The last camera work using similar set, intimate mood & lighting that I liked was in Out of Sight. I haven't seen it in about ten years. I vaguely recall that I liked the intimate restaurant scene.
Every director needs to find a visual style that suits them. But if you can't do something engagingly unique - copy someone else, for God's sake!  

I don't know what to make of Thomas Kist's usage of video for this.  
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457443/
Mechanically video is going to look different than film, but I don't think it has to look like sh!t. Learn how to shoot depth of field close ups.
I see that he also shot Buscemi's Interview.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480269/

This may have been a fantastic effort for the $3,000 budget it had.
For a minimal set experience 12 Angry Men was better.
For a story heavy on just two characters Before Sunrise and Before Sunset were better.
The acting waffled somewhere between theater stage and cinema.
The screenplay was written like one of our poorer SS submissions.
Reoccurring story elements such as her red wine, his magic, and that her father was a conjurer - not a magician - were lame.

The story... is complicated to address.
I like films that entertain.
Film is art.
The purpose of art is not to paint pretty pictures, but rather to provoke an emotional response. Good, bad or otherwise.
By that measure Blind Date failed to provoke an entertaining emotional response.
I would not watch it again.
I would not recommend it.
I don't see any therapeutic value in the story itself, all other issues aside.
I don't think it will become a cult classic.

Ostensibly it's about an older couple struggling with the tragic loss of their five year old daughter, somewhat as a result of their goofing off while driving. They have guilt issues.
They now have a complicated, dysfunctional life that spins around in a seemingly never ending Sargasso sea of dysfunctional guilt. They are living ghosts trapped in a mutual self loathing love hate.

The good news is that they have each other and aren't fit for anyone else so they've come to this complex arrangement.
The bad news is that they have each other and aren't fit for anyone else so they've come to this complex arrangement.

I don't connect with either of them while at the same time respecting the gravity of their situation.

If you analyze the first 30 minutes you've seen enough of the whole story.
WYSIWYG. Move on. You won't be missing much.