Single White Female (1992)
57 %
Reviews Counted: 37 Fresh: 21 Rotten:16 Average Rating: 5.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Synopsis: Traumatized by the discovery that her live-in fiancé has cheated on her with his ex-wife, Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda) decides to find a roommate to share her apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. After interviewing candidates, beautiful, sophisticated career woman Allison settles... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman, Stephen Tobolowsky
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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The climax is a long time coming, and you can't help feeling that the adaptation would work better as a play.
04/14/08
There's something dehumanizing about 90s horror thrillers that all but defeats the film's impulses toward seriousness; no matter how much the filmmakers work to make the characters real, the genre contrives to turn them into functions and props.
04/14/08
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A stylishly shot thriller with several hair-raising moments. Considering that it's directed by Barbet Schroeder and stars Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, it's also a major disappointment.
04/14/08
Despite excellent lead performances and numerous memorable scenes, this still feels like two different movies in one.
04/14/08
Top Critic
As psychological thriller, it has a good beginning but poor ending. Even so, there eerie scenes, such as the one in which the women stand in front of the mirror examining themselves--it recalls Ingmar Bergman's Persona, also dealing with role reversal
02/07/07
If his two leads are adequate to the slick mechanisms of a formulaic thriller, neither they nor Don Roos' script (based on the novel by John Lutz) offer any original insights into insatiable emotional dependence.
02/09/06
This should be trash, but Fonda and Leigh's performances keep things believably chilling.
06/10/04
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