Directed by james foley and starring halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi and gary dourdan. Getting past the characters, there are some good twists and it is well written, well acted and filmed. Now ive seen the movie again for the first time in ten years. This is because her friend grace nicki aycox was unceremoniously dumped by hill and was soon thereafter found. Everything you need to know about perfect stranger movie. Perfect stranger dvd, 2007, full frame for sale online. Actor and musician bruce willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hardedged characters, often in spectacular action films. Foley, arnold rifkin, elaine goldsmiththomas, revolution studios. Check out the trailer starring halle berry, bruce willis, and giovanni ribisi.
When her friends affair with married ad exec harrison hill bruce willis ends in the womans murder, investigative reporter rowena price academy award. Bruce willis is a smooth advertising titan and halle berry is an undercover investigative reporter in james foleys noir perfect stranger. Halle berry manages to save this from complete and utter disaster, but its still a very, very bad movie. Its an interesting series of twists that raises questions about victimization, justice, hypocrisy and. When her friends affair with married ad exec harrison hill bruce willis ends in the womans murder, investigative reporter rowena price. Bruce willis and halle berry in perfect stanger youtube. It was produced by revolution studios for columbia pictures. As she goes undercover to crack the case of her friends murder, a woman gets caught up in the world of obsessive love online. Rowena suspects that the killer is harrison hill bruce willis. She assumes new identities in the real world and online, utilizing cyberspace in a bid to bring her quarry to justice.
Perfect stranger is a desperately dull movie lacking, charm, sexiness and anything remotely like a thrill. A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman harrison hill as her childhood friends killer. Halle berry, giovanni ribisi, bruce willis mpaa rating. Ro risks her life to discover the identity of a stranger lurking on the internet who might hold the answers to her friends murder. Id give a 3 if the movie people who think this is a good movie need to see more movies. Halle berry bruce willis giovanni ribisi richard portnow gary dourdan florencia lozano nicki aycox kathleen chalfant gordon macdonald daniella van graas. She has suffered from being abused by men in real life and she brought much of this to her portrayal of rowena price. Perfect stranger has a good story, with a surprising twist. Perfect stranger mirrors the life of real life actress halle berry. With tom hanks, bruce willis, melanie griffith, kim cattrall. The guys name is harrison hill bruce willis and hes the head of his own marketingadvertising company. When her friends affair with married ad exec harrison hill bruce willis ends in the womans.
In it, a journalist decides to take the law into her own hands to find the man who killed her best friend. Williss career began in television in 1984, most notably as david addison in moonlighting 19851989, and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles. Rowena price halle berry, a reporter, uses her investigative skills to solve the murder of a friend. Despite the presence of halle berry and bruce willis, perfect stranger is too convoluted to work, and. Perfect stranger is a 2007 american neonoir psychological thriller film, directed by james foley, and starring halle berry and bruce willis in their first film. She is an actress and producer, known for red 2 20, perfect stranger 2007 and the comebacks 2007. Bruce willis interview about perfect stranger english. Perfect stranger 2007 halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi by b. Foley has a keen eye for the upscale lounges and restaurants of new york, where hill entertains clients and makes his moves on rowena. Perfect stranger is a story about an investigative reporter, rowena halle berry, who begins to dig into the goingsons of a wealthy and powerful advertising executive, harrison hill bruce willis, whom she suspects for murder.
Aging cop jack mosley bruce willis has seen better days, and all that the force expects out of him these days is to stay out of trouble while hes on the clock. Halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi, gary dourdan. A journalist goes undercover to expose a businessman as her childhood friends killer. The ending of perfect stranger is a surprise because its arbitrary.
Watch perfect stranger online stream full movie directv. Despite the presence of halle berry and bruce willis, perfect stranger is too convoluted to work, and features a twist ending thats irritating and superfluous. Her search leads her to harrison hill bruce willis, a highpowered. Layered with improbable plot twists and hypocritical commentary, the movie is lurid and outdated when it wants to be hip and provocative. We search near and far for original movie trailer from all decades. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online catandmouse. Grace shoves a manila file into rows hands before the doors close and says regards to your mother. Perfect stranger stars halle berry as rowena, a prominent new york journalist who writes using a pseudonym to entrap some of the tristate areas most corrupt individuals, using a network of informants, acquaintances, and digital gadgets. Perfect stranger on dvd august 21, 2007 starring halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi, gary dourdan. Eddie murphy kisses angela halle berry on boomerang the movie. This is often the case with dgrade thrillers but one expects more from a major multiplex release starring bruce willis and halle berry. Bruce willis and halle berry finish production on perfect stranger apr 27, 2006. Walter bruce willis was born on march 19, 1955, in. Perfect stranger 2007 rotten tomatoes movie trailers.
Perfect stranger 2007 crime, drama, horror, mystery, thriller. Watch dramacrime movie 16 blocks 2004 with bruce willis, david morse and mos def full online free. Bruce willis does not have much to do and as usual he mumbles his way through the movie and at times displays his whimsical temper. Perfect stranger 2007 rowena price halle berry, a reporter, uses her investigative skills to solve the murder of a friend. In the sleek, paranoid world of perfect stranger, the internet and the ugly side of. Halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi, richard portnow, gary dourdan, florencia lozano, nicki aycox, gordon. In the end, this film is a good and forgettable entertainment. Perfect stranger would mark the second bruce willis and revolution collaboration after the box office disaster tears of the sun. Perfect stranger, the new thriller starring halle berry and bruce willis, is far from perfect and, lame as it is, not quite lousy enough to pan with joy. Perfect stranger james foley, halle berry, bruce willis. Halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi, gary dourdan, richard portnow, patti darbanville, clea lewis, james foley, arnold.
Perfect stranger stars halle berry, giovanni ribisi and bruce willis. Based on the clues provided in the story, theres no way to predict where its going to end up. Few things are as compelling as a good twist ending, the kind that invites reconsideration of everything that came before it. To the movies ruthless power brokers and climbers, the most precious. Perfect stranger focuses on rowena price halle berry, a reporter for a major new york city newspaper who goes undercover to in. Perfect stranger is a secular psychological thriller that has some uneven qualities. The flashback scenes have an effectively eerie, coolblue tone. People who think this is a good movie need to see more movies.
Halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi, richard portnow. I liked this film and i feel it hits on all cylinders. Harrison hill bruce willis her target guy, is just. Like that other bruce willis flick the sixth sense, perfect stranger is one of those thrillers that leads the audience down a certain path based on a set of assumptions, only to pull a fast oneor twoin the final 15 minutes. It gets off the ground when bruce willis shows up as the heroines antagonist, but the ending has a few unintentional laughs that dilute its power. With halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi, richard portnow.
The thriller perfect stranger falls squarely in the latter camp, while. Emma heming willis was born on june 18, 1978 in malta as emma frances heming. Her search leads her to harrison hill bruce willis, a highpowered advertising executive. Her friend was dating a married man who had threatened to spill the beans to his wife. Bruce willis is an american actor, film producer, singer, songwriter, and screenwriter. Apparently unable to stop itself, perfect stranger piles on some nightmares for rowena she was traumatized by a bad stepfather as a child and her ex, cameron gary dourdan, who shows up for steamyseeming sex and an argument that has little to do with anything else. Perfect stranger is directed by james foley, whose credits include at close range, one of the best crime movies of the past quartercentury. The suspense thriller completes principal photography in new york. Shes eventually so unable to keep track of her own actions that the movies. Harrison hill bruce willis her target guy, is just as nasty, so theres no emotional connection with the characters lose a. Good try, perfect stranger, but you were irrelevant before i stopped surfing chatrooms. Perfect stranger film perfect stranger is a 2007 american neonoir psychological thriller film, directed by james foley, and starring halle berry and bruce willis in their first film together since the last boy scout 1991.
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