I can’t see anyone really enjoying this.
The Perfect Man (2005)
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Reviews Counted:115
Fresh:6
Rotten:109
Average Rating:3.2/10
Consensus: Mechanical, preposterous and predictable, The Perfect Man is a lifeless, occasionally creepy movie that gives romantic comedies a bad name.
Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for some mildly suggestive content
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Romance, Love Story, Parents, Teenage, Family Interaction
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.... 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]
Starring: Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, Chris Noth, Mike O'Malley
Starring: Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, Chris Noth, Mike O'Malley, Vanessa Lengies, Aria Wallace, Ben Feldman
Director: Mark Rosman
Director: Mark Rosman
Screenwriter: Gina Wendkos
Story: Michael McQuown, Heather Robinson, Katherine Torpey
Producer: Marc Platt, Dawn Wolfrom, Susan Duff
Composer: Christophe Beck
Studio: Universal Pictures
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Reviews for The Perfect Man
Hollywood cranks out another prosaic teen-girl-romantic-comedy from its bottomless cultural vacuum in this Hilary Duff vehicle that no non-female person over the age of 12 should suffer through.
The premise is patently ridiculous, but the target audience of 12-year-old girls will be too charmed by the genre requisites to care.
The sparkling charm which Duff once evinced has largely faded with familiarity and too many indifferent projects.
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.
None of the leads convince or engage, and supporting characters are either gay stereotypes, routine little sisters or functional best friends.
Many scenes from the previews aren’t in the film -- a telltale sign of desperate last-minute tampering.
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.
Keeping the ruse going involves gifts and notes of the "just missed you" variety.
With an emphasis on wacky misunderstandings and situations, the film has all the complexity of a sitcom (a thoroughly mediocre sitcom at that).
Everything bad about teen chick flicks is encapsulated in The Perfect Man.
Disappointing romantic comedy that starts well but then takes a nosedive into cliché and sickly sweet sentimentality.
One of those harmless teen romantic comedies that girls adore and everyone else suffers through.
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.
In place of characters we can relate to, the movie delivers a witless, mechanical series of complications.
This silly, lame comedy is primarily a vehicle to promote Hilary Duff.
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