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Perfect Stranger, 2007

Starring: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis

Directed by: James Foley

Written by: Todd Komarnicki, Jon Bokenkamp

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 109 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:5.5

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The mood of Perfect Stranger is suspenseful, mind bending, and tense. The plot centers around an investigation, psychological motives, and murder. It is a thriller and mystery movie. Stylistically, Perfect Stranger involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is New York. Perfect Stranger happens in contemporary times. Note that it includes nudity, profanity, and violent content.

Summary of Perfect Stranger

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.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	13 April 2007
Runtime:	109 min

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Halle Berry

as Rowena Price

Bruce Willis

as Harrison Hill

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Salon.com

Perfect Stranger is one of those movies that two years, or two months, from now, you won't recall having seen. Ostensibly a movie about big secrets, it comes up with few that are worth keeping, or telling. Full Review

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by: Stephanie Zacharek

Los Angeles Times

It is an acceptable enough thriller, neither the worst you've seen nor the opposite. Full Review

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by: Kenneth Turan

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Cheesy badness... like a bag of stale Doritos, they taste kind of funky but you find yourself sucking the nacho powder off of your fingers anyway. Read and rate it

17.December.2010
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by: tapwater
tapwater rated this movie0/10

Almost good, almost bad...but it veers toward bad. Plot devices occur for almost no reason (the text message, Ribisi's 'room', etc) and charcters do things without any motivation (even after the unnecessary plot twist is revealed, a second viewing... Read and rate it

20.March.2009
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by: sethdellinger
sethdellinger rated this movie0/10

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