The first feature-length motion picture based on Dr. Pat Allen's best-selling relationship book, Getting to "I Do"

Duty Dating® is a delightful romantic comedy focussing on the "Sex and the City" misadventures of Clarice McGuire, an overachieving but romantically frustrated magazine photostylist who manages to sabotage every potential relationship without understanding the mistakes she's making. When she finds her more sexually mature editor/mentor holding court with clamoring suitors, she seeks her counsel and is directed to a popular relationship specialist. Desperate, Clarice acquieses and proceeds to apply the love doctor's advice to do all the right things to become the Belle of the Ball herself...only to land the wrong man.

Following its smash theatrical premiere in Los Angeles, the entertaining and informative film is now out on DVD.

Actress Lauren Sinclair (from Face Off with John Travolta) stars as a modern young woman completely confused by a lifelong indoctrination in "women's liberation." To help her see how things work in the real world, communication and intimacy guru Dr. Hartley (based on Dr. Pat Allen and her weekly seminars), advises Clarice to "duty date" three men at the same time as an exercise to build her relationship skills, explaining that dating one will get her prematurely attached, two still makes for an either/or situtation, and that only by concurrently dating three men can she maintain an emotional perspective.

Although Clarice must kiss many toads before finally finding her prince, Clarice manages to steer her way to the altar while learning that the road to love is a path with many unexpected twists and turns.

Duty Dating is the triple-talented debut of Cherry Norris who wrote, directed and produced the film. She created the story out of her own early experiences, and anecdotes of dating disasters related by many of her female confidentes.

"I was at dinner one night with some girlfriends who had been attending Dr. Pat Allen's 'infamous' dating seminars. They whipped out their Filofaxes and began reeling off a list of do's and don'ts for dating: how to act, what to wear, what to say. It was unbelievable. Why would highly successful, gorgeous women need to learn how to date?" she kept wondering.

"Then a light bulb went off — I had an idea for a film.

"I've always adored a good love story," she confesses. "I'm a romantic at heart. I'm also an independent, take-charge kind of person. When I finished the screenplay... I was told I had written a highly commercial film.

"I did my homework. I was prepared. I had a great cast and crew. No matter who I've talked to in Hollywood — male or female, straight or gay, business-minded or creative — without exception, by the end of the meeting, they were asking me for love advice.

"Let's face it," she laughs, "everybody wants to know how to be successful in love."