Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy, Family, True Story
Tagline: The story of a family that wanted it all. Never settle
Plot: For the most part, single mom Jean Hamilton (HEATHER LOCKLEAR) is great at raising her teenage daughter Holly (HILARY DUFF) and her sister, providing a home and being both a friend and a parent to her daughters. Everything’s usually just fine, great even. But then, once a boyfriend enters the picture, well, things start to slide from great. And it’s not Holly’s boyfriends that are causing the problems…it’s her mom’s.To Holly, her mom’s dating habits aren’t exactly hard to recognize: she picks a guy not nearly good enough, and when the inevitable romance transforms into the unavoidable break-up, Jeans packs up Holly and her little sister and hustles onto the next city, hopeful that the next guy in the next town will be better. Holly really wants her family to settle down, where she might have a chance at being a normal teenager—maybe even attend her first school dance. But more than that, Holly wants her mother to stop picking romantic duds that only end up breaking her heart. Why can’t Jean see how wonderful she is, realize the qualities in herself that endear her to her daughters, be happy with or without romance…in short, see herself through Holly’s eyes? So who better to pick Jean’s potential datemate than Holly? Someone to keep Jean from encountering yet more heartache
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 "The Perfect Man" crawls hand over bloody hand up the stony face of this plot, while we in the audience do not laugh because it is not nice to laugh at those less fortunate than ourselves, and the people in this movie are less fortunate than the people in just about any other movie I can think of, simply because they are in it.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
“The Perfect Man” has the candy-colored look characteristic of movies of its kind, as well as the haplessly bouncy music (by Christophe Beck) and the erratic direction (by Mark Rosman), which alternates generally flaccid pacing with spasms of pointless enthusiasm. It’s possible that tweens of the female persuasion will find it adorable. But couldn’t the studio have done the decent thing and released it directly to slumber parties rather than theatres? D---Frank Swietek
This is unwatchable. Stay away.  --Eric Lurio
"The Perfect Man" is a cutesy-poo, happy-go-lucky little movie about horrible, irresponsible, selfish people. --Rob Blackwelder
“The Perfect Man” is a film so awful and devoid of anything that could even loosely be described as entertaining that it makes me hope that Duff will move away from acting and concentrate on her musical career.  --Peter Sobczynski (eFilmCritic.com)
But despite its few assinine moments, The Perfect Man really isn't that bad of a movie. Mind you, I don't plan on ever seeing it again, but it has a few chuckles, some likeable characters and it doesn't take itself too seriously so I really can't complain about it too much. It's a movie made for a particular crowd and that crowd will probably love The Perfect Man. As for everyone else, it's probably a hit or a miss. For me, it was somewhere in between. 6.5/10--Brendan Cullin
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Mark Rosman
A Cinderella Story, Model Behavior, Life-Size |
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Hilary Duff
Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story, Human Nature |
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The Glass House, Mr 3000, Double Whammy |
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Kissing Jessica Stein, When Do We Eat?, Living with Fran | | Caroline Rhea
Christmas with the Kranks, Ready to Rumble, Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire | |
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"The Perfect Man" regularly reinforces a pattern of characters being interrupted every time something is about to get sorted out.  --Ed Blank
It’s deplorable that Universal and Rosman and Wendkos are out peddling this male-denigrating, feminist rubbish to impressionable young teenage girls. 1/10--Tony Medley
Messages about honesty and commitment get lost and the teen-girl crowd this film is aimed at should catch something else this weekend -- they'll likely find more pleasure from seeing Christian Bale in a batsuit. --Tyler Hanley
"The Perfect Man" is full of people who do stupid things and then are surprised at the consequences. I include the filmmakers in that assessment, too. Here they have taken an impossible starting point, compounded it with an absurd premise, and then set the whole thing ablaze with a series of preposterous plot points -- and now they are probably sitting in their offices, wondering why their movie has done so poorly at the box office. F--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
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