Perfect Strangers (2003) 5.1
A woman goes home with the best-looking stranger, only to discover she's been kidnapped. Director:Gaylene PrestonWriter:Gaylene Preston |
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Perfect Strangers (2003) 5.1
A woman goes home with the best-looking stranger, only to discover she's been kidnapped. Director:Gaylene PrestonWriter:Gaylene Preston |
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Melanie
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| Robyn Malcolm | ... |
Aileen
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Madeleine Sami | ... |
Andrea
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| Jed Brophy | ... |
Pete
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| Joel Tobeck | ... |
Bill
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Paul Glover | ... |
Jim
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| Sam Neill | ... |
The Man
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George Cassells | ... |
Takeaway Patron
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Louis Cassells | ... |
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Nic Farra | ... |
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Nic Gorman | ... |
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Lorraine Ryder | ... |
Publican
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Ian Ryder | ... |
Publican
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Richard Bullock | ... |
Bushman
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Paul O'Shea | ... |
Bushman
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Melanie is out with the girls in a country town on New Zealand's wild but beautiful West Coast when she meets the perfect stranger. The inevitable question 'your place or mine?' arises and Melanie chooses his, not knowing it is a fishing boat. In the morning they are at sea destined for the stranger's home on a remote and inaccessible island. Despite the man's charm, Melanie comes to the realisation she has been kidnapped but, gradually, is captivated by strangely symbiotic nature of their relationship Written by johnno.r@xtra.co.nz
Yeah. Great movie. All about how ugly life is if you don't ever question anything. two nitwits act out the different imperatives of their egos and we have murder and tedium. This movie gets made because Canada, New Zealand and to some extent, Australia, have some kind of post-colonial guilt going on and this has backfired into 'all women directors must get their movies published' However, Hollywood only publishes crap by men so I guess its all even.
This movie Isn't uplifiting, Isn't kind, Isn't beautiful, Isn't clever, Isn't witty.
It has few redeeming qualities except for the wild landscape. Hey! take out the people and the story and this is one HELL of a nature documentary.
If you see this movie and think that it 'shows life as it really is', you need to get out more. And to the person who said it describes the 'dating scene' out there, I say: bollocks.
Oh and the acting wasn't great either.