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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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I can’t see anyone really enjoying this.

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

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.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
04/16/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

It's funny, poignant and the characters are appealing.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
10/18/08
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Urban Cinefile

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 Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
03/06/07
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
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The sparkling charm which Duff once evinced has largely faded with familiarity and too many indifferent projects.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
David Noh
David Noh
Film Journal International

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 Source: Christianity Today | comment Comment
09/27/06
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
Christianity Today

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

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Anna Smith
Anna Smith
Time Out

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

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
05/12/06
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

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 Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/01/06
Empire Magazine
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Keeping the ruse going involves gifts and notes of the "just missed you" variety.

Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
01/17/06
Sydney Morning Herald
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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 Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
12/06/05
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Excuse me, but who are these people?

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment Comment
11/04/05
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

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

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
08/23/05
Stella Papamichael
Stella Papamichael
BBC

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

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
08/20/05
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Disinterest gets stretched past disbelief.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
08/09/05
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
07/28/05
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

A completely awful movie, from start to finish.

Full Review Source: Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) | comment Comment
07/07/05
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

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 Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
07/06/05
Peter Sobczynski
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com

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

Full Review Source: Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) | comment Comment
06/29/05
Thomas Peyser
Thomas Peyser
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)

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

Full Review Source: Modamag.com | comment Comment
06/28/05
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
Modamag.com
 
 
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