
Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he's Rowena's prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she's soon the object of Hill's attentions. She's helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper wh... (Full plot summary below)
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Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he's Rowena's prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she's soon the object of Hill's attentions. She's helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out?
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleTo see Perfect Stranger is to wish for a more sophisticated vehicle for a film actress this good, but actors -- and audiences -- take what they can get. This is better than most. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerPerfect Stranger is far from Hitchcock, and Berry, although she gets an A for effort, can't do much with the half-baked characterizations. |
| Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachInstead of heightening the intrigue in this psychological thriller, the labored twists and out-of-leftfield turns will leave audiences more weary than wary. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldCliched, mostly routine and never especially satisfying. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTodd Komarnicki's screenplay relies heavily on red herrings and a host of suspects (there are more murderers swanning around Hill's sleek offices than there were aboard the Orient Express) to keep audiences distracted from what, in retrospect, is really pretty obvious. |
| Miami HeraldCarla MeyerA rarely suspenseful thriller with a twist ending of the worst kind: It takes too much explanation. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe only surprise here is the real star of the show, who turns out to be not Halle Berry, not even Bruce Willis, but a flat computer screen in all its hard-driven glory. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIt lacks the rutting nuttiness of "Basic Instinct," even as it recycles much of that film's kiss-or-kill premise. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThink you'd be happy watching Berry do little more than look beautiful? Perfect Stranger gives you plenty of opportunity to find out. |
| Salon.comStephanie ZacharekPerfect 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. |