The Perfect Man
Every time Jean goes through a bad breakup, she relocates much to the dismay of her teenage daughter, Holly. Holly devises a plan to invent a secret admirer for her mother, so she'll be happy and not have to relocate anymore. But eventually her mother wants to meets this guy but can't so what can Holly do?
13 April 1964, Westmount, Québec, Canada
3 November 1996, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
13 November 1954, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
18 December 1986, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
27 May 1980, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
August 04, 2014
I kept steepling my hands and hiding behind them.
June 07, 2013
Watching this unspeakably rubbish teen romcom is, to quote David Lodge's classic description of National Service, like a punishment for a crime you can't remember committing.
June 24, 2006
None of the leads convince or engage, and supporting characters are either gay stereotypes, routine little sisters or functional best friends.
June 07, 2013
Another month, another anodyne tween-com from Hilary Duff.
June 20, 2005
[The] situation is mined mostly for mild chuckles and tepid sentiment.
March 06, 2007
The premise is patently ridiculous, but the target audience of 12-year-old girls will be too charmed by the genre requisites to care.
June 20, 2005
The Perfect Man has a plot that turns sweet and charming Hillary Duff into a serial liar. She's not just telling little fibs. She's engaging in a prolonged and kind of mean practical joke on her mother.
June 21, 2005
Like a Nike commercial without a shot of the sneakers.
June 07, 2013
The intrigues are laboriously contrived, the film exudes disingenuous sentiments, and it has three happy endings -- one for Mum and one for each daughter.
June 07, 2013
The movie is a toxic buzz of sweetness that Duff's teen gal fans might lap up, while all others suffer through a prolonged sugar fit.
June 07, 2013
[Hilary Duff movies] never do solve their one nagging flaw: Duff's characters are remarkably self-possessed for teens but not enough to recognize the sitcoms they inhabit.
