Reveals the health club fad to be a hall of mirrors filled with self-absorbed individuals.
Perfect (1985)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:3
Rotten:13
Average Rating:3.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: John Travolta stars as a Rolling Stone reporter who travels to Los Angeles to investigate a drug case and decides to write an exposé of the health-club craze of the 1980s. Reporter Adam Lawrence... John Travolta stars as a Rolling Stone reporter who travels to Los Angeles to investigate a drug case and decides to write an exposé of the health-club craze of the 1980s. Reporter Adam Lawrence (Travolta) sets out to trash the fitness craze as just a replacement of the shallow singles bar scene of the 1970s. He even has a title in mind: "Looking for Mr. Goodbody." As he researches his story, Adam meets Jessie (Jamie Lee Curtis), a sexy fitness instructor who has little use for scribes like him. Adam charms the reluctant Jessie, and before long the hot couple is working out together--in more ways than one. Suddenly Adam is faced with a quintessential dilemma of journalism: Can he be Jessie's lover and still ridicule her friends and workplace? PERFECT features a lead performance from Rolling Stone's real-life editor in chief, Jann Wenner, as Lawrence's gutsy editor. The film is an intriguing drama that combines the glamorous world of magazine journalism with the seductive world of 1980s super health clubs. [More]
Starring: John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marilu Henner, Laraine Newman
Starring: John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marilu Henner, Laraine Newman, Anne De Salvo, Matthew Reed, Jann Wenner
Director: James Bridges
Director: James Bridges
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Reviews for Perfect
Perfect is too superficially knowing to be a camp classic, but it's an unintentionally hilarious mixture of muddled moralizing and all-too-contemporary self-promotion.
John Travolta continues his wearisome trek through America's fleeting enthusiasms, though this time he arrives a day late (wasn't aerobics over a couple of years before this?) and a few dollars short.
Pic is guilty of the sins it condemns - superficiality, manipulation and smugness.
The movie is devoid of laughs, thanks to James Bridges' characteristically humorless direction.
If you're curious about why the gifted Tavolta's film career stalled in the mid-80s, 'Perfect' is the perfect explanation.
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