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A womanizing husband inadvertently falls back in love with his wife over the phone when she pretends to be another woman.A womanizing husband inadvertently falls back in love with his wife over the phone when she pretends to be another woman.A womanizing husband inadvertently falls back in love with his wife over the phone when she pretends to be another woman.
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- TriviaFilmed in 2000 under the title "Dial 9 for Love" (later changed to "Men Are Dogs") with a planned 2001 release. The production company pulled out just after filming was completed, leading to the film being shelved as there was no money left to finish it. Several years later, director Kees Van Oostrum showed a rough cut to several hundred students at the filmmaking workshop he was teaching at Drexel University, and, buoyed by their positive reactions, decided to find a way to finish the film. Gary W. Wilkes stepped in as executive producer after Van Oostrum showed him the rough cut, and arranged for the necessary funding to shoot additional background scenes, create visual effects, record a score, finish editing and perform a digital intermediate. The film was finally completed in late 2012 and released in 2013 as "A Perfect Man".
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A Perfect Man: What seems to pass as a love story these days
Plot
A womanizing husband inadvertently falls back in love with his wife over the phone when she pretends to be another woman.
Cast
Jeanne Tripplehorn and Liev Schreiber are excellent as always, supporting cast? Forgettable.
Verdict
I have an issue with movies where I'm supposed to root for a vile person, I doubly have an issue where I'm watching a supposed love story and they treat each other poorly and it's played out as being fine and they live happily ever after. A Perfect Man is a great example of this, he's a wretched human being who betrays her trust and he's still made out to be a good guy trying to redeem himself. He's a scumbag, undeserving and the story should have ended in the first 10 minutes.
How am I supposed to watch a film like this? Who am I supposed to root for?
Rants
You know the "Girls like bad boys" cliche, I've seen so much of it through my life, women who are beaten and cheated on but make excuses for their spouses and stay with them. I knew one woman who during her 9 year relationship she found out about a dozen different women and was put in hospital 5 times including one that resulted in her having re-constructive surgery! Did she leave him? No. Wanna know how that 9 year relationship ended? At his hands. I'll never understand why women stay with abusive or cheating partners and this movie glamorizes this foolishness.
The Good
Incredible cast
The Bad
Concept is appalling.
A womanizing husband inadvertently falls back in love with his wife over the phone when she pretends to be another woman.
Cast
Jeanne Tripplehorn and Liev Schreiber are excellent as always, supporting cast? Forgettable.
Verdict
I have an issue with movies where I'm supposed to root for a vile person, I doubly have an issue where I'm watching a supposed love story and they treat each other poorly and it's played out as being fine and they live happily ever after. A Perfect Man is a great example of this, he's a wretched human being who betrays her trust and he's still made out to be a good guy trying to redeem himself. He's a scumbag, undeserving and the story should have ended in the first 10 minutes.
How am I supposed to watch a film like this? Who am I supposed to root for?
Rants
You know the "Girls like bad boys" cliche, I've seen so much of it through my life, women who are beaten and cheated on but make excuses for their spouses and stay with them. I knew one woman who during her 9 year relationship she found out about a dozen different women and was put in hospital 5 times including one that resulted in her having re-constructive surgery! Did she leave him? No. Wanna know how that 9 year relationship ended? At his hands. I'll never understand why women stay with abusive or cheating partners and this movie glamorizes this foolishness.
The Good
Incredible cast
The Bad
Concept is appalling.
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- Dial 9 for Love
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- $5,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,117
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $388
- Nov 3, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $14,147
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