IGN.com|AskMen.com|Rotten Tomatoes|GameSpy|FilePlanet|TeamXbox|CheatsCodesGuides|GameStats|Direct2Drive

RottenTomatoes.com

Register | Log In | What is RT?
It's our 10th birthday, so you get presents!
Home Movies DVD Celebrities News Critics Photos & Trailers The Vine Forums
Box Office | In Theaters | Opening | Upcoming | Best Of | Certified Fresh | Showtimes
RT Search Powered by Google
 
MOVIES / ON DVD / THE PERFECT MAN
The Perfect Man

Rate This Movie

Write a Review
See Pictures
Share This Movie
Add to List
Buy DVD
Buy Poster

Bookmark and Share

The Perfect Man (2005)

5%
10%
39%
N/A
N/A
N/A
5 %
Reviews Counted: 110 Fresh: 6  Rotten:104 Average Rating: 3.2/10
 
Consensus: Preposterous and predictable.
 

How does the Tomatometer work?

The Tomatometer measures the percentage of positive reviews from Approved Tomatometer Critics for a certain movie.[-]

Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

Theatrical Release: Jun 17, 2005 Wide

Box Office: $16,247,775

Synopsis: In The Perfect Man, teenager Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) is tired of moving every time her single mom Jean (Heather Locklear) has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the... In The Perfect Man, teenager Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) is tired of moving every time her single mom Jean (Heather Locklear) has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man...an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her shaky self-esteem. When the virtual relationship takes off, Holly finds herself having to produce the suitor, borrowing her friend's charming and handsome Uncle Ben (Chris Noth) as the face behind the e-mails, notes and gifts. Holly must resort to increasingly desperate measures to keep the ruse alive and protect her mom's newfound happiness. . . almost missing the real perfect man when he does come along. The Perfect Man stars Hilary Duff (The Lizzie McGuire Movie), Heather Locklear (Uptown Girls), Chris Noth (television's Sex and the City), Mike O'Malley (28 Days), Ben Feldman (When Do We Eat?), Vanessa Lengies (television's American Dreams) and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's Carson Kressley. The screenplay is written by Gina Wendkos (The Princess Diaries), based on a story by Michael McQuown & Heather Robinson & Katherine Torpey; the film is produced by Marc Platt (Legally Blonde), Dawn Wolfrom (Never Again) and Susan Duff (A Cinderella Story), and executive-produced by Billy Higgins (Honey). [More]

Genre: Romance

Starring: Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, Chris Noth, Mike O'Malley, Vanessa Lengies

Director: Mark Rosman
Screenwriter: Gina Wendkos
Story: Michael McQuown, Heather Robinson, Katherine Torpey
Producer: Marc Platt, Dawn Wolfrom, Susan Duff
Composer: Christophe Beck

DVD Info

Release:

Nov 1, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Snap Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
  • Dual (single sided)

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - French
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - Spanish

Additional Release Material:

  • Deleted Scenes
  • Outtakes
  • Audio Commentary - 1. Filmmakers Commentary
  • Featurette - 1. Mom & Me
  • 2. The Clever Clapper
  • 3. Ready, Set, Soak, Shoot!
  • 4. The Sweet Arts - Creating the Cakes
  • 5. On the Set with Hillary - Blogs and Buddies
  • 6. Hangin' with Hillary
  • 7. Hangin' with Heather
  • 8. Chattin' with Chris
  • Trailers - 1. Coming Attractions

Buy It On DVD

Reviews

 
T-Meter Critics
 
 
Top Critics
 
 
RT Community
 
 
My Critics
 
 
My Friends
 
 
DVD
 
 
 
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Text View | 1 2 3 4 5 6 >> >|
Arrange By: Name | Fresh | Rotten | Date | Source
 
 
Ratings Image
N/A

The premise is patently ridiculous, but the target audience of 12-year-old girls will be too charmed by the genre requisites to care.

Full Review | comment Comment
03/06/07
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image
N/A

The sparkling charm which Duff once evinced has largely faded with familiarity and too many indifferent projects.

Full Review | comment Comment
03/01/07
David Noh
Film Journal International
Ratings Image
2/4

The Perfect Man, starring Hilary Duff, isn't very good. The problem is how to critique it without taking the obvious cheap shots at its likable but over-exposed young star.

Full Review | comment Comment
09/27/06
Carolyn Arends
Christianity Today
Ratings Image
N/A

None of the leads convince or engage, and supporting characters are either gay stereotypes, routine little sisters or functional best friends.

Full Review | comment Comment
06/24/06
Anna Smith
Time Out
Ratings Image
N/A

Many scenes from the previews aren’t in the film -- a telltale sign of desperate last-minute tampering.

Full Review | comment Comment
05/12/06
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
Ratings Image
1/5

The occasional one-liner is wasted amid a sea of clichés and preposterous situations in this Duff vehicle that forgot to put the romance in romantic comedy.

Full Review | comment Comment
04/01/06
Empire Magazine
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review | comment Comment
01/17/06
Sydney Morning Herald
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image
2/4

With an emphasis on wacky misunderstandings and situations, the film has all the complexity of a sitcom (a thoroughly mediocre sitcom at that).

Full Review | comment Comment
12/06/05
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
Ratings Image
D

Excuse me, but who are these people?

Full Review | comment Comment
11/04/05
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Ratings Image
2/5

Everything bad about teen chick flicks is encapsulated in The Perfect Man.

Full Review | comment Comment
08/23/05
Stella Papamichael
BBC
Ratings Image
2/5

Disappointing romantic comedy that starts well but then takes a nosedive into cliché and sickly sweet sentimentality.

Full Review | comment Comment
08/20/05
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
Ratings Image
N/A

Disinterest gets stretched past disbelief.

Full Review | comment Comment
08/09/05
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Ratings Image
2/5

One of those harmless teen romantic comedies that girls adore and everyone else suffers through.

Full Review | comment Comment
07/28/05
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
Ratings Image
D+

A completely awful movie, from start to finish.

Full Review | comment Comment
07/07/05
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)
Ratings Image
1/5

A film so awful and devoid of anything that could even loosely be described as entertaining that it makes me hope that Duff will move away from acting and concentrate on her musical career.

Full Review | comment Comment
07/06/05
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com
Ratings Image
N/A

In place of characters we can relate to, the movie delivers a witless, mechanical series of complications.

Full Review | comment Comment
06/29/05
Thomas Peyser
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Ratings Image
3/10

This silly, lame comedy is primarily a vehicle to promote Hilary Duff.

Full Review | comment Comment
06/28/05
Susan Granger
Modamag.com
Ratings Image
0/4

Sometimes a movie is so perfectly awful it deserves a perfectly shaped rating: "Zero."

Full Review | comment Comment
06/27/05
Linda Cook
KWQC-TV (Iowa)
Ratings Image
N/A

Duff’s incessant and vapid cinematic output is actually making me nostalgic for Freddie Prinze Jr.

Full Review | comment Comment
06/27/05
Luke Y. Thompson
Los Angeles CityBeat
Ratings Image
1.5/4

...a surface treatment of an intriguing premise.

Full Review | comment Comment
06/25/05
Jonathan W. Hickman
Entertainment Insiders
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Text View | 1 2 3 4 5 6 >> >|
See More Topics...

Related Forums

She Flopps by Herself
by: Dynamic_Star88 12/7/07


Roger Ebert The Idiot
by: Captain Future 8/9/07


Despot
Predict the matometer
by: Despot 6/20/05


Despot
Predict the matometer
by: Despot 6/20/05


Despot
Predict the matometer
by: Despot 6/20/05
all

Pictures

all

News

Box Office Preview: "Snakes" Prepares For Takeoff
posted by RT Staff August 17, 2006
This weekend Samuel L. Jackson looks to seize control of the muthaf*ckin' box office with his new muthaf*ckin' film...


Critical Consensus: "SOAP," "Material Girls" Not Screened; "Accepted" Denied; "Sunshine" Shines
posted by Tim Ryan August 17, 2006
This week at the movies, we've got snakes.... on a plane ("Snakes on a Plane," starring Samuel L. Jackson),...


Box Office Preview: Four New Films Prepare to Fight
posted by Gitesh Pandya June 15, 2006
Reunion fever hits the multiplexes this weekend as four new releases debut bringing together a lot of familiar faces....


Razzie Nominations Announced; Easy Targets Run for Cover
posted by Scott Weinberg February 01, 2006
Courtesy of their official site come the annual Razzie Awards Nominations ... or as I like to call them: The Amazingly...

Around the Network

• The Perfect Man at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Perfect Man at AskMen
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Celebs List| Newsletter

IGN.com | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | ModCenter | GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox | Planets | Vaults | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Direct2Drive


By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
Copyright 1998-2008, IGN Entertainment, Inc. About IGN | Support | Advertise | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! IGN RSS Feeds
IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA
Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.