The premise is patently ridiculous, but the target audience of 12-year-old girls will be too charmed by the genre requisites to care.
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The Perfect Man (2005)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:3
Rotten:27
Average Rating:3.5/10
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]
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Family Interaction, Romance, Teenage, Love Story, Parents
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.... [More]
Starring: Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, Chris Noth, Mike O'Malley
Director: Mark Rosman
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Reviews for The Perfect Man
Top CriticLike a Nike commercial without a shot of the sneakers.
06/21/05
Top Critic[The] situation is mined mostly for mild chuckles and tepid sentiment.
06/20/05
Top CriticThe 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.
06/20/05
Top CriticMostly the movie produces yawns when it's not producing awe that someone even bothered to make it.
06/17/05
Top CriticIn 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.
06/17/05
Top Critic[It's] not a searing psychological thriller about a crazy mom and her sadistic daughter. It's a comedy of sorts, but without anything to laugh at.
06/17/05
Top CriticInoffensive doesn't make movies. And unless she starts improving her projects soon, neither, soon, will Hilary Duff.
06/17/05
Top CriticAs an actress, Duff has failed to grow, except in acquisition of highlights, showing an emotional range running the gamut from pout to sulk.
06/17/05
Top CriticThe story has a definite ick factor that detracts from even the small pleasures the movie might offer its teen audience.
06/17/05
Top CriticThe Perfect Man isn't perfect, but it's not bad company for 100 minutes.
06/17/05
Top CriticWhen Duff finally realizes that she actually has found the perfect man for her mom, the web of mischief and deceit she has created almost seems too thick to destroy. But The Perfect Man is the kind of movie in which such webs become cotton candy.
06/17/05
Top CriticAdd Heather Locklear to the list of strikingly beautiful actresses who somehow can't get a date on screen. That's the shaky premise of The Perfect Man.
06/17/05
Top CriticDuff has found a formula that works, on TV or on screen, as a loving, loyal and slightly confused high schooler.
06/17/05
Top CriticIf it's still something of a formula teen movie -- cute guy, kids fixing parents' lives, spunky sidekick, darling outfits, etc. -- it also touches on some issues outside the formula.
06/17/05
Top CriticThe movie's foolish fantasy comes awfully close to seeming nuts.
06/17/05
Top CriticWe all realize two things: Noth is way too good for this stuff, and blogs are totally over.
06/17/05
Top CriticMost of this movie is beyond lame.
06/17/05
Top CriticAn audience has to buy that Locklear's character, Jean Hamilton, gets dumped by every guy she dates. And whenever this happens, she immediately moves her family to another part of the continent.
06/17/05
Top CriticThe Perfect Man takes its idiotic plot and uses it as the excuse for scenes of awesome stupidity.
06/17/05
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