Dating Games People Play

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Dating Games People Play
Directed byStefan Marc
Written byStefan Marc
Produced byStefan Marc
Starring
CinematographyChristos Bitsakos
Edited byPeck Prior
Mark Solomon
Sandy S. Solowitz
Production
company
Marc Entertainment
Release date
  • 26 April 2005 (2005-04-26)(Newport Beach Film Festival)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Dating Games People Play is a 2005 American drama film directed by Stefan Marc, starring Austin Peck and Leslie Bega.

Contents

Cast

Release

The film premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival on 20 April 2005. [1]

Reception

Don Houston of DVD Talk rated the film 3.5 stars out of 5 and called it a "witty little romantic comedy". [2]

Craig Outhier of The Orange County Register called it a "cumbersome, aimless piece of low-browery". [3]

Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times called the film "entirely unnecessary" and a "generic and uninvolving portrayal of life in Newport Beach". [4]

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References

  1. Frino, Blake (14 April 2005). ""Dating Games People Play"". OC Metro . Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  2. Houston, Don (12 February 2008). "Dating Games People Play". DVD Talk . Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  3. Outhier, Craig (30 March 2007). "'Dating' fails to score". The Orange County Register . Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  4. Olsen, Mark (30 March 2007). "Losing at `Dating Games'; Even the background music overshadows the contrived, limited observations about grown-up relationships". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 7 October 2022.