
When a 'Single White Female' places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she's just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which haunts her.... (Full plot summary below)
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When a 'Single White Female' places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she's just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which haunts her.
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| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasThis should be trash, but Fonda and Leigh's performances keep things believably chilling. |
| The Associated PressDelores BarclayThis is a story which, in other hands, could have simply been an all-female slasher movie, but Barbet Schroeder, who produced and directed it, has a mordant humor that pushes the material over the top. It is a slasher movie, and a little more. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordSingle White Female is Mr. Schroeder's bid to compete in the mass market, and there's no reason he shouldn't succeed. The film is smooth, entertaining and believably sophisticated. It has far more sound psychological underpinnings than other movies of its type. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrSchroeder brings a decidedly un-Hollywood approach to the material, which is both the source of the film's greatest aesthetic strength (it is unusually attentive to questions of character and form) and most crippling commercial weakness. American audiences, used to nonstop action, will probably grow impatient with Schroeder's slow, nuanced approach. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA clever, by-the-numbers gothic thriller. Single White Female is entertaining claptrap. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversSchroeder goes through the motions -- the movie is elegantly made -- but this synthetic Hollywood package panders shamelessly to the baser instincts. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames Sanfordsuitably chilling and convincingly played by Fonda and Jason Leigh |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanSingle White Female is a B-movie, yet it's a beautifully-made one that puts an emphasis on tone. |
| Lawrence Journal-WorldDan LybargerProof that sensationalism, sex and violence can be boring. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfTurns out both of these women are mentally damaged, adding a nice little purple-nurple to the script, giving the actresses something with a little more bite to play with. |