Perfect Stranger (2007)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

James Foley

Writers (WGA):

Todd Komarnicki (screenplay)
Jon Bokenkamp (story)

Release Date:

13 April 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

How Far Would You Go To Keep A Secret?

Plot:

A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

Plot Keywords:

Secret | Childhood Friend | Murder | Senator | Best Friend

Cast

Halle Berry	...	Rowena Price
Bruce Willis	...	Harrison Hill
Giovanni Ribisi	...	Miles Haley
Richard Portnow	...	Narron
Gary Dourdan	...	Cameron
Florencia Lozano	...	Lieutenant Tejada
Nicki Aycox	...	Grace
Kathleen Chalfant	...	Elizabeth Clayton
Gordon MacDonald	...	Senator Sachs
Daniella Van Graas	...	Josie
Paula Miranda	...	Mia Hill
Patti D'Arbanville	...	Esmeralda
Clea Lewis	...	Gina
Tamara Feldman	...	Bethany
Gerry Becker	...	Jon Kirshenbaum

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content, nudity, some disturbing violent images and language.

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

USA:R | Netherlands:16 | UK:15 | Singapore:M18 | Ireland:16 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Singapore:NC-16 (edited version) | Argentina:13 | Brazil:14 | Australia:M (original rating) | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | Germany:16 | Portugal:M/12 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | Chile:14 | South Korea:18 | Malaysia:18PL | Peru:14 | Japan:PG-12 | Spain:18 | Finland:K-15 | New Zealand:R16

Filming Locations:

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Revolution Studios

Trivia:

Miles' phone number (which we see when Hill reads the text message on Roe's mobile phone in the restaurant) is shown as 917-867-5309 - a nod to Tommy Heath's classic rock hit "867-5309/Jenny," which repeats that number (sans area code) in the refrain.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Miles is supposedly searching Harrison's files for a picture of someone named "Veronica". Two screens of information are shown to illustrate this. The screens have nothing to do with searching for a file. The first is a screen of "fdisk", a Linux program for formatting partitions. The second looks like an FTP log, which appeared earlier in the film as well.

Quotes:

Miles Haley: [slides her a USB drive] Take this.
Ro: And what's that?
Miles Haley: It's new spyware you're gonna mickey into Hill's laptop. Go at the end of the day, install it into the computer, and bury it into the hard drive.
Ro: And how long will that take?
Miles Haley: Uh, 3 minutes and 14 seconds. But, that's just a guess.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Yes Man (2008)

Soundtrack:

Can't Get You Out of My Mind

The kind of movie that makes you think Halle Berry's Oscar was a fluke

Halle Berry in a "What were they thinking" movie that has to have been made up on the fly or cobbled together from eight other movies. The basic plot, I'll stick with that because I don't want to try to explain the real plot, has Halle Berry investigating the murder of a friend. The trail leads to Bruce Willis as the head of a PR firm who's married and has a kinky side.

Possibly as bad as Catwoman this movie is a real stinker.Everyone is in a different movie, there is no sense of whats going on and as the revelations start coming and coming and coming and you begin to realize that the reason there is no sense of whats going on is that there is no plot to make sense of. The final plot twists are of the sort that make you go-"get the *#$% out of here" or "What you talking' 'bout Halle".

To be fair, There's one or two tiny things that make me not sure if this is a good bad movie or a bad bad movie since it straddles the line, but its not really worth splitting hairs over so I'm leaning towards calling it a complete dirtball stinker.

Avoid this one at all costs.