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Before You Commit: Internet Dating

72 minutes | 17 or older | 1997 | United States of America

Documentaries

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Tagline

What you can do to make relationships better

Synopsis

Learn how to tell if the people at the other end of your email:
are who they say they are,
are the sex they say they are,
are the age they say they are,
look like their pictures,
aren’t going to rip you off,
aren’t scary people.

Director's Statement

The first problem I attack in his video is the need to understand what a healthy relationship is before you can have a healthy Internet relationship: information which applies to all kinds of relationships, including both traditional as well as Internet.

Directed by: Nick Isenberg
Written by: Nick Isenberg
Produced by: Nick Isenberg

Cast

Crew

Nick Isenberg was sharing an office at Colorado Mountain College with Joe Marquez when he was getting a divorce. Isenberg said, “When Joe discovered the Internet, life got good. If he had to go to a meeting anyplace in Western Colorado, he would often line up a date for after the meeting.
“One day Joe said, ‘I had dinner with a woman last night who asked me if I had ever murdered anyone.’ She had dated a guy who belonged to a gang.
“I realized that if you are worried about dating someone who may murder folks—you need to know that before you meet them. That’s what inspired me to produce the documentary,” said Isenberg.

  • Nick Isenberg

    Director

    Nick Isenberg