In Duff's movies, the question is whether the movie will find enough interesting stuff to compensate for the blandness at the center. The Perfect Man does.
It's a chick flick with a vengeance but even in its most sentimental moments, stars Hilary Duff and Heather Locklear make this feel-good-about-yourself movie feel ... well, good.
Rosman and Wendkos run dry of ideas in the film's inert, overextended finale, when the "Believe in yourself" speeches grow so thick that even the Duff-devoted may start rolling their eyes.
There's just the matter of facing it: that The Perfect Man is just something slapped together -- by people who don't care, for an audience they figure will care even less.
A teenager girl tries to manage if not guide a few persons into a conspiracy to help her mom to find the ideal man even if her mom has other ideas… The movie is too funny with moral found in the end. Just give the movie a try at east by lending the DVD !
Hilary Duff is a charming and endearing person, and actress. She hit it big time with the "Lizzie Maguire" show, and that would be easy to understand that her career in films should be just as secure. I really had a strong dislike for the movie 'A Cinderella Story' (2004) as it felt contrived, unfunny, and just overall, not worth the watch. This time, we head to a more cynical story than last time. Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) is moving houses with both her mother, Jean (Heather Locklier) and her little sister. Her mother seems to have a habit of constantly moving houses, and always looking for new boyfriends as she seems to struggle to make her mind up. When they finally move to their new house (again), Holly decides to try and impress her mother by sending gifts to her posing as some secret admirer. The man she decides that she wants her mother to be with is Ben (Chris Noth). Her mother may seem unimpressed at first, but after a while, the gifts start to work on her, and things seem to hit it off. There is nothing more to talk about this movie, this is on my list of movies that I would never recommend, and would vow others not to see. There is absolutely no reason as to why anyone should waste their time watching this... it is neither funny, nor clever, or charming. It is an empty movie, filled with cynicism than charm.