Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Python Hyena Picture Perfect (1997): Dir: Glenn Gordon Caron / Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr, Kevin Bacon, Olympia Dukakis, Kevin Dunn: Romantic comedy about expectations fooled by false representations of self. It stars Jennifer Aniston as an advertising executive who invents the picture perfect date in order to advance her career. She pays Jay Mohr to have dinner with her and her co-workers. She has everything figured out right down to how they act and know about each other. Mohr obviously doesn't want to follow the plan. Standard formula romance that is never given justice. Director Glenn Gordon Caron does his best with its lavish settings but the performances are at the mercy of the material. Aniston is hardly sympathetic. Mohr is introduced as a local hero who is schemed into this idiocy by Aniston. He falls for her and she sabotages him. Kevin Bacon plays a co-worker whom she has an affair with. Olympia Dukakis is also featured as if it matters. Kevin Dunn plays Aniston's boss whose role is to predictably to discredit her. It could have demonstrated how selfish ambition can damage reputations but instead it is subdued in sitcom romantic clichés that water down any meaning. It is not funny to see a reputation of an honest person get damaged while some bimbo seeks to progress through the situation with higher job status. The screenplay is far from perfect. Score: 3 ½ / 10

bjarias One of 'America's Sweethearts'.. here she's 28 years old, at her charming best. She has great acting skills, too many times not fully evidenced in the films in which she's appearing. These rom-com's are okay, but now, in her mid 40's, and how many has she done.. almost all copies one way or another of each other. Not to say she hasn't done some very challenging work, but here in this film, now 17 years old, she again shows nuances of great acting skills.. to my mind lost in what is just another mediocre script. Many would disagree, as is their right. She's not going anywhere.. she'll be around for quite a long time.. maybe it will change as she gets older. Personal opinion.. we've yet to repeatedly see the depth of just how good an actor she truly is.

miss_lady_ice-853-608700 I'm pretty sure that the title was created before the plot, because the plot is a bit forced. Kate (Jennifer Aniston) works in advertising but can't really progress in her job because everybody else has a nice stable marriage and a house of their own, and she's unlucky in love and still staying with her mother. Her good girl image is also a turn off for her sexy adulterous boss, Sam (Kevin Bacon). So when a friend sees a photo of her taken at a friend's wedding with a friend of the groom's, she concludes that the two are a couple. Kate then invents a fictitious engagement to the man, Nick, (Jay Mohr)who she had never met before the wedding. It impresses her colleagues and bags her Sam. Kate pays Nick to pose as her fictitious man but her plan gets screwed up a little when he falls in love with her.I know that the advertising industry might be concerned with the 'image' of employees but I doubt that they would imply that being single and living with your mother meant that you had no career path. I'm pretty sure that you could sue for the implication that your love life and where you live prevents you from promotion. Anyway, the opposite tends to be true- the married couples are likely to leave and have children. Also, Kate must earn enough to get her own flat and surely if she's worked up to a good position in the company, she's got a bit of independence and drive? She seems to have quite a few psychological issues.Jennifer Aniston acquits herself well in a movie that probably is just a vehicle for her. Though if you don't think much of her, this film probably won't change your opinion. Kevin Bacon is actually quite good as Sam- and he makes a nice bit of eye candy, of course (though the hair is BAD). Jay Mohr doesn't have that much to do but he plays the cardboard cut-out nice guy quite sweetly.As I said previously, the plot has holes but in formulaic rom-coms this is sort of expected. However the comedy in this film is intermittent. It starts off as lightly amusing but this is abandoned for a more serious romantic tone (it's rather depressing in places as well), which spoils the fun a little, seeing as both Bacon and Aniston show that they could have handled a rom-com script. The soundtrack/score is pretty dull and a bit dated as well.If you're in the mood for a soppy non-taxing romance, this would do the job, and if you like the leading actors, it's worth a watch. If you like Maid in Manhatten, you'll probably like this as well (probably more). But if you're looking for a light rom-com, you might be disappointed.

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