Perfect Stranger (2007)
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 13, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $23,705,592
Synopsis: Ace New York Courier reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) will do anything to get her story---even if it verges on the unethical. After her plans to out a U.S. senator's homosexual relationship with an intern are thwarted, Price's next chance at a big scoop falls right into her lap. When her... Ace New York Courier reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) will do anything to get her story---even if it verges on the unethical. After her plans to out a U.S. senator's homosexual relationship with an intern are thwarted, Price's next chance at a big scoop falls right into her lap. When her friend Grace (Nicky Lynn Aycox) is found murdered, the main suspect is revealed to be Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis), a philandering high-powered ad exec with a very jealous wife. With some help from her right-hand tech guru, Miles (Giovanni Ribisi), Rowena goes undercover as a temp at Hill's agency, where her own good looks are bound to draw Hill closer to her, taking her to the facts behind Grace's murder. No simple plot description can truly explain James Foley's (AT CLOSE RANGE) twisty, tech-y thriller. It begins with a false setup, takes a whole other route, and makes a series of bizarre 11th hour revelations that not even the most seasoned viewer will be able to predict. The always watchable Berry makes us root for a character whose methods aren't always the most scrupulous, and Giovanni Ribisi does a lot with the "sidekick" role. Anastas Michos's cinematography gives Manhattan a slightly sinister glow of cool blue, appropriate to this tale in which nothing is what it seems, and trusting in someone is sure to cause regret---or worse. PERFECT STRANGER may occasionally defy logic, but that is not likely to deter those hungering for a handsomely made, star-fueled studio film with plenty of surprises. [More]
Genre: Thriller, Murder, Reporters, Internet, Dating
Starring: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Gary Dourdan, Patti D'Arbanville
Screenwriter: Todd Komarnicki, Jon Bokenkamp
Producer: Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas
Composer: Antonio Pinto
DVD Info
Release:
Aug 21, 2007
Blu-ray Features:
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- PCM 5.1 - English
- Subtitles - English, French - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Behind the Scenes - 1. Virtual Lives: The Making of PERFECT STRANGER
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Reviews
Columbia seems to be on a one-studio mission to revive that very '90s of film genres, the erotic thriller--or are they determined to kill it off for good, considering such poor efforts as this listless Halle Berry vehicle?
A big cheat because virtually nothing of what happens in the first 100 minutes would ever really have happened if the truth that's exposed in the final few minutes was true.
While Perfect Stranger had its moments and wisely made its characters less than perfect, it was a pedestrian yarn better suited for the small screen than the silver one.
The movie shows that the only thing worse than a generically screwy thriller is one with a selective narrator -- and one that doesn’t give viewers a fair chance to play along.
While it begins dully enough for an investigative thriller, Perfect Stranger quickly skids off into abject foolishness.
A rarely suspenseful thriller with a twist ending of the worst kind: It takes too much explanation.
Un thriller más bien mediocre, inverosímil y rebuscado que pretende sorprender al espectador con una vuelta de tuerca final... igualmente mediocre, inverosímil y rebuscada.
Although the movie makes a case for its ending, taking you by the hand and walking you through the stink of all its red herrings, the effort is wasted. Ro sounds like roe for a reason, and the logic behind this film was fishy from the start.
Even Berry's bodacious bod (the woman is blessed with some really good genes) isn't distraction enough to make Perfect Stranger palatable.
It's a movie that exists to showcase an actor more than it exists to be a movie.
The movie would perhaps like to say something serious about the ease with which modern communications allows us to be multiple personalities, but that effort is lost in ineptitude.
Loses its point about balancing different identities through the increasingly ludicrous twists and intense overacting
A B movie with a bland title, histrionic acting and a ridiculous twist ending.
Amid all the dreck that has come out in the last few years, it's hard to think of a title that approaches the audience with more cinematic bad faith. For shame!
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