The Perfect Man

The Perfect Man (Alternative link Title: The Perfect Man ) is an American comedy film from 2005 directed by Mark Rosman and written by Gina Wendkos. .

Action

The single parent Jean Hamilton has some failed relationships behind him. She and her two daughters pull every time to after the end of their relationship. Her older daughter Holly wants to prevent another move from New York. She gets with how Ben Cooper - ordered flowers for a woman - an uncle of her friend Amy Pearl. Then Holly flowers ordered for her mother, pretending to her that she had a secret admirer.

Holly communicates with her mother via the internet and are in this case from the restaurant owner Ben. Meanwhile, she befriends with the real Ben, from which she gets advice on how to woo a woman. She gets to know at school Adam Forrest, who falls in love with her. Adam kisses one day Holly, but this results in that Holly distance from him investigated because she is afraid of a binding.

Holly disrupts a wedding, in the belief that it was Cooper, who is getting married. However, he is only a friend of the bride and has organize the catering. Then Cooper brings the girl to tell him the whole truth about the deception. Later Holly pressed her mother to move again, but what these rejects and Holly so compels to deal with their problem, rather than to escape.

Cooper is curious, wants to get to know Jean and they arrange to go on a date.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times of 17 June 2005, the film use the " idiotic " action as an excuse for scenes of " terrible stupidity " ( " takes its idiotic plot and uses it as the excuse for scenes of awesome stupidity " ). The audience do not laugh, because it does not belong to laugh at hapless people - the characters of this film are disastrous than in any other movie, because they were in this movie ( "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 " ).

Filmdienst wrote that the film was "a romantic comedy as undemanding entertainment." The director Socialize with this film closely to his earlier film A Cinderella Story.

Awards

Aria Wallace was nominated in 2006 for the Young Artist Award. Hilary Duff was nominated for the 2006 Teen Choice Award and the Golden Raspberry.

Background

The film was shot in New York City and Toronto. His cost of production was estimated at 10 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 16.2 million U.S. dollars. In some countries such as Germany and Italy, the film was released directly to DVD.

2005 in film Screenplay Marc E. Platt Film score Christophe Beck John R. Leonetti Ben Feldman (actor) Chicago Sun-Times Teen Choice Awards Metacritic
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