Picture Perfect (1997)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Glenn Gordon Caron

Writers (WGA):

Arleen Sorkin (story) &
Paul Slansky (story) ...

Release Date:

1 August 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

She was prepared for anything until love stormed in.

Plot:

Kate is working on a career at Mercer Advertising, but she is passed up for promotion because she is 'not stable enough'...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Mustard | Male Female Relationship | Advertising | Condom

Cast

Jennifer Aniston	...	Kate Mosley
Jay Mohr	...	Nick
Kevin Bacon	...	Sam Mayfair
Olympia Dukakis	...	Rita Mosley
Illeana Douglas	...	Darcy O'Neil
Kevin Dunn	...	Mr. Mercer
Anne Twomey	...	Sela
Faith Prince	...	Mrs. Mercer
John Rothman	...	Jim Davenport
Margaret Gibson	...	Jackie Davenport
Paul Cassell	...	Brad
Ivar Brogger	...	1st Ad Executive
Peter McRobbie	...	2nd Ad Executive
Bray Poor	...	3rd Ad Executive
Daryl Edwards	...	4th Ad Executive

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sensuality and related dialogue.

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Iceland:L | UK:PG | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | Chile:TE | Germany:6 (w) | Portugal:M/12 | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Central Park South Restaurant, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

3 Art Entertainment

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Kate is sitting in the seats, waiting to present to the group towards the end of the movie, right before she explains the lie about Nick, she orders food from a girl. When she goes to pay she finds the watch Nick left for her, but she never pays for the food.

Quotes:

Darcy O'Neal: I was born married, baby.

Movie Connections:

References "The Little Rascals" (1955)

Soundtrack:

Fruitful Acre

Almost Perfect!

Picture Perfect is my favourite Jennifer Aniston movie. Of course, we all know her as "Rachel from Friends" and that's probably the way it will always be. The same with the rest of the Friends cast. (There's absolutely nothing wrong with that though. Friends is the BEST.) I guess, that's why she's been type-casted for the last few years and why most of her films are of a romantic-comedy nature. Still, even though not many of them do very well on release, (That will change soon though.) she still does a good job in all of them, including this one.

Picture Perfect is about Kate, (Jennifer Aniston.) a woman who really can't find love. She does fancy her work colleague Sam, (Kevin Bacon.) but he doesn't really seem interested in her, as she is with him. One day Kate is at a friends wedding and she meets Nick (Jay Mohr.) who is there to film the wedding. They have a chat, have there picture taken together and that's about it. Until, one day at work, Kate's friend Darcy, (Illeana Douglas.) tells everyone that Kate is engaged to Nick, so Kate can get promoted at her work. Everyone obviously believes it, so now it's up to Kate to ask Nick, if he can pretend to be her fiance, for a while and then later on in the 'relationship' they will have a break up in front of everyone . Nick agrees to do this. The only thing is Nick ends up falling for Kate and whilst Kate is 'seeing him,' she ends up sleeping with the guy she fancied in the first place, Sam. He seems to want her now, she's with someone.

The story in the movie is a little unbelievable, but so what, it's a just a movie and it's a very enjoyable one too. It has one of those stories, where you can guess what's going to happen at the end straight away. Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon and Jay Mohr are all great here too. So, if you fancy seeing a romantic comedy (If you've already seen, classic movies like, Sleepless In Seattle and You've Got Mail, etc.) then Picture Picture is the one for you. I rate Picture Perfect an 8/10.