Lotsa quirks. Never clicks. TWITTER Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp's comedy sets many, many obstacles between the meeting of a high-school kid and the girl he's obsessed with. An out-all-night odyssey in which romance is interrupted by a compounding series of mishaps and crimes, Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp's First Date follows in the tradition of similarly named predecessors like Date Night, Blake Edwards' Blind Date, et cetera. In this case, the misadventure is mostly had by the would-be suitor (Tyson Brown), who gets waylaid time and again before he can even meet the longtime crush (Shelby Duclos) he can't believe agreed to go out with him. This is the first feature for both leads, and the writer-directors would've done well to concentrate more on them — prioritizing chemistry over introducing an increasingly quirky populace of characters whose antics keep them apart. While the two young thesps acquit themselves nicely, much around them conspires to prevent their debut from being a memorable one.