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Perfect (1985)

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Reviews Counted:16

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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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Jun 25, 2002

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Full Review Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal | comment Comment
06/18/05
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

The movie is devoid of laughs, thanks to James Bridges' characteristically humorless direction.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
07/26/09
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A vanity project that went nowhere.

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07/23/05
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

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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11/04/04
Anthony Del Valle
Anthony Del Valle
Las Vegas Mercury

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03/11/04
Austin O'Connor
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Lowell Sun

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03/12/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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.

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07/26/09
Dave Kehr
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Chicago Reader
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07/14/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

They don't make them like this anymore... there's a reason.

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12/10/02
Oz
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05/30/03
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

One-joke Travolta comedy.

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01/04/05
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan

Muddled saga of journalistic ethics.

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06/24/06
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston
Time Out

Pic is guilty of the sins it condemns - superficiality, manipulation and smugness.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/26/09
Variety Staff
Variety Staff
Variety

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.

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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
New York Times

Good chemistry - that's about it

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11/03/05
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

Reveals the health club fad to be a hall of mirrors filled with self-absorbed individuals.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
08/22/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Cheesy but enjoyable.

Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | comment Comment
12/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal
 
 
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