It is true : this movie grows on you, it is about love, and if you are open to it, you feel it.So why are the reviews here that are clearly negative about it get all the approvals? Maybe negativity is sexy? I personally kept thinking of that movie long after it was finished. It was so touching. And the sex scene was one of the best I've ever seen in a movie. It was moving : it felt real and it happened just the moment it had to happen, naturally, it was not just thrown there.Now I have some cons on this movie, especially just after seeing "The Good Dick" which scores here less than this. And I wonder why. Because here what is really really really great is the scenario and the actors but the camera, the lighting, and the sound are quite not my favorite. The black and white : it is not really clear why it is used, it looks so much like a Woody Allen movie that it feels like a copy. The camera points of views are not my favorite : sometimes the camera seems a bit far from what it shows. The sound was not my favorite : I really loved that some songs were really off cue, that was a delight, and what was not my favorite was when the actors where talking, it seemed like it was not on sync with the sound. The scene with the shoes was a good idea, but the way the shoes were filmed, it looked like the director just had put shoes here and there to film them. Again the angles and the distance of the camera were not my favorite. But let me end with my favorite : the actors are so real, the scenario is so great that each sentence leads to the next one, it is fabulous. And, after this movie, go see The Good Dick (and I've read a review about it here if you like).

I thoroughly loved this movie. I was mesmerized from the very beginning, drawn in by realistic acting scenarios I found this movie nothing but a joy. It is not often that a film makes me feel like I am just a buddy walking along with the film and watching it all unfold around me. It felt comfortable to watch and I enjoyed my experience.It was on Showtime for Women. I think women are awesome so I gave it a try. Is it a chick flick? Probably but maybe it was just such an open appealing film that draws in its viewer, male or female.I say give it a watch. The characters form great relationships and are expert listeners when they act. Thrilled to see this in a film done in the mid 2000's. Its been a long time for me to enjoy this as much as I might have enjoyed a true classic. I give props to this film and do hope that somehow it gains notoriety and becomes somewhat a classic. Maybe its not to that level or ever was meant to be. Its just I did enjoy it and hope you will give it a try based on my suggestion. Its very good.

What did I just watch? This is awful. Boring, annoying, and cringe worthy. I depressed guy posts an ad on Craigslist so he can met someone on New years eve. A women responds and they agree to meet. This woman is the most annoying person I have ever heard speak. She is rude, and vile. The worst part was I did not by her acting as a rude vile person. The guys looks like and acts like a total loser and apparently he is. Anyone who confesses he masturbated to his best friends g/f's photo is a really winner (insert eye roll). Why would anyone follow this girl around anyway, she tells him off time and time again but he still follows her around? Why? The movie was basically I bunch of talking, boring, mundane talking and walking around LA.

It would be grossly unfair on Alex Holdridge, the writer and director of "In Search of a Midnight Kiss", to use the term "rom-com" or to draw any comparison between this film and any of the light and frothy chick-flicks against which he would have been vying for the old teen/young tween audience. "In Search of a Midnight Kiss" is much, much better than this. The narrative spans twenty-four hours beginning on the morning of New Year's Eve and follows the life of Wilson (played by a young-Hugh-Laurie-look-a-liking Scoot McNairy), a budding script-writer approaching the dreaded thirty years of age and who has followed the traditional trail west to Los Angeles in order to build his career. Typically, his life has stalled and L.A. dreams have rusted away into days spent smoking weed and masturbating over his best friend's girlfriend. Taking pity on him on this particular New Year's Eve, these friends convince him to add a personal to Craigslist in order to secure a date for that evening – a move that shortly sees us introduced to Vivian (Sara Simmonds). The film then follows Wilson and Vivian as their date progresses, rather clumsily at first as Wilson's dated Romantic views clash with Vivian's neo-feminist go-get-it attitude, before the latter's tough façade fades and the two begin to bond through mutual insecurities and cynicism towards modern-life and love, aided beautifully by Holdridge's easy dialogue. However, this is so much more than the typical Hollywood flick aimed at bleeding dry the girls-night-out pockets. This is not just a story about love; it is a story about insecurity and how the changes in our life are governed by these insecurities, something not just limited to the characters' or viewers' lives either. There's something greater to be said here about Los Angeles and Hollywood - much like how the characters cover their insecurities with aggression, be it violence or sexuality, Hollywood's once-esteemed stage theatres are standing empty, largely unused except as strip clubs and nude cabaret shows – and the film studios are surely no better off.I guess it is a cruel irony of this that the box office takings for "In Search of a Midnight Kiss" were so low. I would suggest a problem with the marketing at the time of release but confess that I don't even recall seeing any marketing at all (I found it only through peer review). This film is charming, beautifully shot in black and white; it's thought-provoking and deeper than its appearance but with enough humour and character-magnetism throughout to entertain any viewer. The script is wonderfully natural throughout and both the main stars turn out thoroughly engaging performances. I'd recommend this film to anyone, but especially to anyone who has ever picked up a Douglas Coupland novel, or who has ever looked out the window and considered how cheap those things we esteem highest are often portrayed in the media.8/10. A hidden gem. What a shame that it was so overlooked by the cinemas. Perhaps it was released the same week as some cheap and forgettable Jennifer Aniston rom-com...