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  • 2006
  • Empire Pictures
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2006
  • Empire Pictures
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary Perception is a darkly comedic gem that stars Piper Perabo as Jen Marshall, an LA girl with a reckless personality and a laundry list of burned bridges. When Jen returns to New York and unexpected tragedy strikes, it is up to her mistreated friends to decide between helping her through this tough time or abandoning her as she has done to...

Directed By: Irving Schwartz

Written By: Irving Schwartz

  • 2006
  • Empire Pictures
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2006
  • Empire Pictures
  • 1 h 41 m

Perception

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Summary Perception is a darkly comedic gem that stars Piper Perabo as Jen Marshall, an LA girl with a reckless personality and a laundry list of burned bridges. When Jen returns to New York and unexpected tragedy strikes, it is up to her mistreated friends to decide between helping her through this tough time or abandoning her as she has done to...

Directed By: Irving Schwartz

Written By: Irving Schwartz

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This should be funny or sad, but it's neither, in this incoherent cross between "Riding the Bus With My Sister" and a Christina Ricci vehicle.
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Schwartz throws in so many characters and implausible subplots - none worth mentioning - that Perception sinks under its own weight.
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As the jaundiced, disjointed, drug-infested story heads toward its dismal conclusion, its reputable actors vainly struggle to infuse the goings-on with a deadpan psychotic zaniness. But even when viewed sideways, Perception is not funny; it's hardly anything at all.
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An early and daunting contender for worst movie of the year, writer-director Irving Schwartz's amateurish melodrama stars a hollow-eyed Piper Perabo as a self-loathing young woman who has every reason to hate herself.
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60% Negative
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Production Company Liquid Films, Perception Productions
Release Date Jan 20, 2006
Duration 1 h 41 m
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