Picture Perfect
Picture Perfect
PG-13 | 01 August 1997 (USA)
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A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.

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Alicia

I love this movie so much

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Maidexpl

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

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Calum Hutton

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

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Deanna

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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joemjv

I do not usually enjoy Rom-Com movies but this one was really good and it kept me laughing. The cast is very talented and the performance by all of them was very good. The plot is somewhat predictable but it was very well done, enjoyable and fun to watch. I feel this should at least deserve a 6.5 IMDB rating so giving it 10/10 to balance the rating. Would definitely recommend if you are a fan of the cast or enjoy romantic comedies.

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david-sarkies

I was going to give this movie a 6 but I thought the end was so well done that I gave it that one extra point. As a movie as a whole there isn't much that stands out from other movies, but I thought that the ending was cool and it was that which stuck in my mind.Basically the movie is about a girl who wants to get ahead but seems to be too picky about her men. As such, the good jobs are out of reach and the guy she likes is not interested because she is not married. So, when people see a photo of her sitting on a man's lap, she seizes upon the opportunity to say that he is her fiancé. Things start to turn around, until they decide to meet him, so she tries to arrange with him to break off their relationship, but unfortunately he falls in love with her, and she realises that he is actually quite a nice guy.I guess there are a couple of things that stick out here. The main thing is in regards to what the boss says at the beginning of the movie. Basically the company is only interested in promoting you if you are a safe investment - namely you will not run off to another company because they give you a better offer, so what they do is encourage you to marry, buy an expensive house and an expensive car, so that you are such in debt that you need to keep the job.It seems more a safeguard for the corporation than for the person involved, because if they stuff up badly then they loose their job and are in deep thickets because they are no longer on such a great income. I guess it also says that a little white lie to get ahead is okay, but in reality it is not. Once one begins to live a lie, or get trapped in a fantasy world, then when reality hits home, you cannot handle it.This movie is okay, and the ending is great, but unfortunately some of the moralistic overtones simply suck.

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CountZero313

It may be unfair to label Picture Perfect a RomCom. It certainly sits at the less frivolous, more acutely observed end of the spectrum within the genre. There are some small but brilliant moments here, mostly to do with rom rather than com. When Aniston attends the wedding and the bouquet is to be thrown, she steps forward to find herself the only single woman in the room. It is quite poignant, and her retort - "Oh, just hand me the damn thing!" - plays the scene out beautifully. The fight in the restaurant, when it does come, is a masterclass in infusing sub-text into dialogue. Aninston holds it all together with ease, Kevin Bacon is superbly vacuous as the office beefcake, and Jay Mohr does a decent shift, especially when called upon to hint at deeper feelings for career-driven Kate. The ending reverts to by-the-numbers RomCom proceedings, but there is enough in the build-up to have you give up some smiles and tears that you'll feel the film earned.

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Framescourer

An Aniston vehicle, released at the very height of Friends' success on telly. It's a sunny, back-to-front romcom after Green Card, for example, in which Kate (Aniston) uses a guy she meets at a wedding to advance her career. Like most men on the planet, Jay Mohr's Nick can't simply play the attendant fiancé though and the complications bring things to a head, nicely resolved in one of the least likely, contrived, wedding-themed conclusions I've seen in this kind of flick. Mad.Illeana Douglas and Kevin Douglas are the stalwart, bankable support and Mohr is capably riding the surf of being the chief antagonist of predecessor Jerry Maguire. The film is all about Aniston though. She's a good actress giving the flimsy conceit some body. Speaking of body, she's also sufficiently aware of her own appeal to wear a second-act dress a size too small, as well as no bra in the denouement. Oh and Kevin Bacon's in it too. As I say, mad. 3/10

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