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The Perfect Man (2005)

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5

Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 117
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 111

Preposterous and predictable.

10

Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 28

Preposterous and predictable.

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 264,092

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Movie Info

A girl plays Cupid for her mom, but has to invent the right man to woo her in this romantic comedy. Jean Hamilton (Heather Locklear) is a single mother with two daughters, teenaged Holly (Hilary Duff) and grade-school-aged Zoe (Aria Wallace). Fortysomething Jean has stumbled in and out of a number of bad relationships in her lifetime, and is desperate to find a good man; however, Holly has grown a bit tired of Jean's favored means of therapy after a bad breakup -- packing up the family and

PG, 1 hr. 40 min.

Comedy, Romance

Gina Wendkos

Nov 1, 2005

$16.2M

Universal Pictures

Cast

All Critics (118) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (112) | DVD (14)

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

March 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Like a Nike commercial without a shot of the sneakers.

June 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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[The] situation is mined mostly for mild chuckles and tepid sentiment.

June 20, 2005 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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The Perfect Man has a plot that turns sweet and charming Hillary Duff into a serial liar. She's not just telling little fibs. She's engaging in a prolonged and kind of mean practical joke on her mother.

June 20, 2005 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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Mostly the movie produces yawns when it's not producing awe that someone even bothered to make it.

June 17, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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In the cautionary dystopian science-fiction parable The Perfect Man, we are offered a terrifying vision of a possible future: a world ruled by Hilary Duff.

June 17, 2005 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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I can't see anyone really enjoying this.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
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.

April 16, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

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

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

Lighthearted comedy that also deals with serious issues.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

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

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
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.

September 27, 2006 Comment

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

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

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

May 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
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.

April 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Keeping the ruse going involves gifts and notes of the "just missed you" variety.

January 17, 2006 Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | Comment
Sydney Morning Herald

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

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

Excuse me, but who are these people?

November 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | Comment
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

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

August 23, 2005 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

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

August 20, 2005 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
ViewLondon

Disinterest gets stretched past disbelief.

August 9, 2005 Full Review | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Perfect Man

Really enjoyed this film! A great feel good film!

June 23, 2011
murphmann93
Bethany Murphy

Super Reviewer

Holly Hamilton(Hilary Duff) is tired of moving from place to place because of her mother's failed relationships. They move to Brooklyn & Holly's mother takes a job in a bakery ran by her friend Dolores. So Holly, her mom Jean (Heather Locklear) & Holly's sister Zoe (Aria Wallace), are again getting a chance to start

January 27, 2008
movieguru12
Cassie Hill

Super Reviewer

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