The premise is patently ridiculous, but the target audience of 12-year-old girls will be too charmed by the genre requisites to care.
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The Perfect Man (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 110
Fresh: 6
Rotten:104
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Consensus: Preposterous and predictable.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Romance
Theatrical Release: Jun 17, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $16,247,775
Synopsis: In The Perfect Man, teenager Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) is tired of moving every time her single mom Jean (Heather Locklear) has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest... [More]
Starring: Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, Chris Noth, Mike O'Malley
Director: Mark Rosman
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Reviews for The Perfect Man
Top Critic The sparkling charm which Duff once evinced has largely faded with familiarity and too many indifferent projects.
03/01/07
The Perfect Man, starring Hilary Duff, isn't very good. The problem is how to critique it without taking the obvious cheap shots at its likable but over-exposed young star.
09/27/06
None of the leads convince or engage, and supporting characters are either gay stereotypes, routine little sisters or functional best friends.
06/24/06
Many scenes from the previews aren’t in the film -- a telltale sign of desperate last-minute tampering.
05/12/06
The occasional one-liner is wasted amid a sea of clichés and preposterous situations in this Duff vehicle that forgot to put the romance in romantic comedy.
04/01/06
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01/17/06
Top Critic With an emphasis on wacky misunderstandings and situations, the film has all the complexity of a sitcom (a thoroughly mediocre sitcom at that).
12/06/05
Everything bad about teen chick flicks is encapsulated in The Perfect Man.
08/23/05
Disappointing romantic comedy that starts well but then takes a nosedive into cliché and sickly sweet sentimentality.
08/20/05
One of those harmless teen romantic comedies that girls adore and everyone else suffers through.
07/28/05
A film so awful and devoid of anything that could even loosely be described as entertaining that it makes me hope that Duff will move away from acting and concentrate on her musical career.
07/06/05
In place of characters we can relate to, the movie delivers a witless, mechanical series of complications.
06/29/05
This silly, lame comedy is primarily a vehicle to promote Hilary Duff.
06/28/05
Sometimes a movie is so perfectly awful it deserves a perfectly shaped rating: "Zero."
06/27/05
Duff’s incessant and vapid cinematic output is actually making me nostalgic for Freddie Prinze Jr.
06/27/05
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