Perfect stranger has a good story, with a surprising twist. Rowena price halle berry, a reporter, uses her investigative skills to solve the murder of a friend. When her friends affair with married ad exec harrison hill bruce willis ends in the womans. Halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi, richard portnow, gary dourdan, florencia lozano, nicki aycox, gordon. Watch perfect stranger online stream full movie directv. The ending of perfect stranger is a surprise because its arbitrary. Walter bruce willis was born on march 19, 1955, in.
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. Bruce willis is an american actor, film producer, singer, songwriter, and screenwriter. Bruce willis and halle berry finish production on perfect stranger apr 27, 2006. 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. We search near and far for original movie trailer from all decades. When her friends affair with married ad exec harrison hill bruce willis ends in the womans murder, investigative reporter rowena price. Perfect stranger 2007 crime, drama, horror, mystery, thriller. Her search leads her to harrison hill bruce willis, a highpowered advertising executive. Halle berry bruce willis giovanni ribisi richard portnow gary dourdan florencia lozano nicki aycox kathleen chalfant gordon macdonald daniella van graas.
Perfect stranger would mark the second bruce willis and revolution collaboration after the box office disaster tears of the sun. Halle berry, giovanni ribisi, bruce willis mpaa rating. Foley, arnold rifkin, elaine goldsmiththomas, revolution studios. Perfect stranger 2007 rowena price halle berry, a reporter, uses her investigative skills to solve the murder of a friend. 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. She is an actress and producer, known for red 2 20, perfect stranger 2007 and the comebacks 2007. In the sleek, paranoid world of perfect stranger, the internet and the ugly side of. Perfect stranger is directed by james foley, whose credits include at close range, one of the best crime movies of the past quartercentury. Directed by james foley and starring halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi and gary dourdan. Shes eventually so unable to keep track of her own actions that the movies.
Perfect stranger 2007 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. The flashback scenes have an effectively eerie, coolblue tone. As she goes undercover to crack the case of her friends murder, a woman gets caught up in the world of obsessive love online. 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. This is often the case with dgrade thrillers but one expects more from a major multiplex release starring bruce willis and halle berry.
People who think this is a good movie need to see more movies. Halle berry manages to save this from complete and utter disaster, but its still a very, very bad movie. Harrison hill bruce willis her target guy, is just as nasty, so theres no emotional connection with the characters lose a. The guys name is harrison hill bruce willis and hes the head of his own marketingadvertising company. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online catandmouse. Despite the presence of halle berry and bruce willis, perfect stranger is too convoluted to work, and. Perfect stranger is a secular psychological thriller that has some uneven qualities. Perfect stranger james foley, halle berry, bruce willis.
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. 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 2007 halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi by b. In it, a journalist decides to take the law into her own hands to find the man who killed her best friend. To the movies ruthless power brokers and climbers, the most precious. Perfect stranger on dvd august 21, 2007 starring halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi, gary dourdan. Halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi, gary dourdan, richard portnow, patti darbanville, clea lewis, james foley, arnold. Good try, perfect stranger, but you were irrelevant before i stopped surfing chatrooms. Its an interesting series of twists that raises questions about victimization, justice, hypocrisy and. With tom hanks, bruce willis, melanie griffith, kim cattrall. 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 mirrors the life of real life actress halle berry. 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. A journalist goes undercover to expose a businessman as her childhood friends killer.
I liked this film and i feel it hits on all cylinders. Now ive seen the movie again for the first time in ten years. Emma heming willis was born on june 18, 1978 in malta as emma frances heming. Actor and musician bruce willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hardedged characters, often in spectacular action films. It was produced by revolution studios for columbia pictures.
Watch dramacrime movie 16 blocks 2004 with bruce willis, david morse and mos def full online free. The thriller perfect stranger falls squarely in the latter camp, while. The suspense thriller completes principal photography in new york. Layered with improbable plot twists and hypocritical commentary, the movie is lurid and outdated when it wants to be hip and provocative. Id give a 3 if the movie people who think this is a good movie need to see more movies. Ro risks her life to discover the identity of a stranger lurking on the internet who might hold the answers to her friends murder. She has suffered from being abused by men in real life and she brought much of this to her portrayal of rowena price. Harrison hill bruce willis her target guy, is just. Perfect stranger dvd, 2007, full frame for sale online. 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. She assumes new identities in the real world and online, utilizing cyberspace in a bid to bring her quarry to justice. This is because her friend grace nicki aycox was unceremoniously dumped by hill and was soon thereafter found. Foley has a keen eye for the upscale lounges and restaurants of new york, where hill entertains clients and makes his moves on rowena. Her search leads her to harrison hill bruce willis, a highpowered.
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. Getting past the characters, there are some good twists and it is well written, well acted and filmed. In the end, this film is a good and forgettable entertainment. Bruce willis is a smooth advertising titan and halle berry is an undercover investigative reporter in james foleys noir perfect stranger. Check out the trailer starring halle berry, bruce willis, and giovanni ribisi. Perfect stranger is a desperately dull movie lacking, charm, sexiness and anything remotely like a thrill. Everything you need to know about perfect stranger movie. Bruce willis talking about his movie perfect stranger. When her friends affair with married ad exec harrison hill bruce willis ends in the womans murder, investigative reporter rowena price academy award. Halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi, gary dourdan. 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. Her friend was dating a married man who had threatened to spill the beans to his wife. Rowena suspects that the killer is harrison hill bruce willis. With halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi, richard portnow.
Grace shoves a manila file into rows hands before the doors close and says regards to your mother. 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. A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman harrison hill as her childhood friends killer. Bruce willis and halle berry in perfect stanger youtube. Perfect stranger focuses on rowena price halle berry, a reporter for a major new york city newspaper who goes undercover to in.
Halle berry, bruce willis, giovanni ribisi, richard portnow. 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. Bruce willis interview about perfect stranger english. Eddie murphy kisses angela halle berry on boomerang the movie.
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