Perfect Stranger (2007)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

James Foley

Writers (WGA):

Todd Komarnicki (screenplay)
Jon Bokenkamp (story)

Release Date:

13 April 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

How Far Would You Go To Keep A Secret?

Plot:

A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

Plot Keywords:

Senator | Secret | Childhood Friend | Murder | Undercover

Cast

Halle Berry	...	Rowena Price
Bruce Willis	...	Harrison Hill
Giovanni Ribisi	...	Miles Haley
Richard Portnow	...	Narron
Gary Dourdan	...	Cameron
Florencia Lozano	...	Lieutenant Tejada
Nicki Aycox	...	Grace
Kathleen Chalfant	...	Elizabeth Clayton
Gordon MacDonald	...	Senator Sachs
Daniella Van Graas	...	Josie
Paula Miranda	...	Mia Hill
Patti D'Arbanville	...	Esmeralda
Clea Lewis	...	Gina
Tamara Feldman	...	Bethany
Gerry Becker	...	Jon Kirshenbaum

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content, nudity, some disturbing violent images and language.

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

USA:R | Netherlands:16 | UK:15 | Singapore:M18 | Ireland:16 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Singapore:NC-16 (edited version) | Argentina:13 | Brazil:14 | Australia:M (original rating) | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | Germany:16 | Portugal:M/12 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | Chile:14 | South Korea:18 | Malaysia:18PL | Peru:14 | Japan:PG-12 | Spain:18 | Finland:K-15 | New Zealand:R16

Filming Locations:

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Revolution Studios

Trivia:

Shipped to theaters under the name "Lie after Lie".

Goofs:

Factual errors: Just as the phone numbers said and shown in movies are almost always fake and non-existent(so that real people do not receive calls from moviegoers making the movie itself a liability)- so are the 'IP addresses' shown - Miles is hacking into Harrison's "blade server", and a list of IP addresses appears on the screen. The addresses are incorrect. An IPv4 address consists of 4 numbers separated by dots. Each of those numbers can be 0-255. But most of the IP addresses shown on the monitor have at least one number over 255.

Quotes:

Miles Haley: Ro, Ro this is Harrison Hill if he wanted to have someone dead he wouldn't do it himself

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Worst of 2007" (2008)

Soundtrack:

Stir It Up

I don't know why the movie was even released.

The only reason i can see for this movie to be released is because celebrities are in it. But, Halle Berry over-acts a choppy and shallowly developed character. I spent the whole movie waiting for the plot to really get going, but instead what i got was a whole bunch of disconnected plot points and irrelevant characters. It is supposed to be suspenseful, but mostly i just wanted it to be over. When the end came, yes, it was a surprise, but by that time I did not care about the story at all. And it was only "surprising" because the whole story is random events all loosely, very loosely connected to the end. It was almost...amateur. The story does not give enough background on most characters to evoke sympathy, emotion, or interest...ESPECIALLY Willis' character. It's a movie that is good in theory, but wasn't focused enough to be held in the same esteem as other psychological thrillers. The most developed and well acted character is really Ribisi's. His performance is noteworthy and enough to warrant the 3 out of 10.