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      Perfect Strangers

      PG-13 2003 1h 36m Mystery & Thriller List
      29% 7 Reviews Tomatometer 29% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score Melanie (Rachael Blake), an attractive single girl, is out on the town with her girlfriends when she meets a good-looking and intriguing man (Sam Neill) who takes an immediate interest in her. She agrees to leave with him and accompanies him to his boat, which takes off for the remote island on which he lives. Slowly realizing she has been kidnapped, Melanie struggles to maintain her composure as she interacts with her captor -- to whom she still feels a strange, reluctant attraction. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Oct 28 Buy Now

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      Marta C Too stunned to sound lucid. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/08/23 Full Review Audience Member This film is a reminder that really bad movies don't die but hopefully fade away. This stinker if ludicrously full of holes, unlikely events, unexplained twists, and idiotic descents into madness from isolation that make the soccer ball in Hank's Cast Away feel like Citizen Kane. As it drags on it gets worse and worse falling into endless resolutions each more aggravating than the next. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member clicked the wrong movie Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member A quite frankly confused film from New Zealand, that never seems sure of its identity as it splutters from from one genre to the next. Starting off as a psychological thriller before morphing into a twist romance. Its not without its merits, though most of these must fall at the feet of Sam Neill who never fails to turn in a decent performance regardless of the material. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty naff and strange, implausible scenarios. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member It was alright. Some good romance and suspense mixed within. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Tom Horgen Minneapolis Star Tribune It's a movie that fails so miserably in its weirdo aspirations that you'll wish you were watching that bad '80s sitcom of the same name (with Balkie, remember?). Rated: 1.5/4 Jun 10, 2004 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...infuriating... Rated: 1.5/4 Jan 1, 2005 Full Review Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press When horror heroines are this lame-brained, my impulse is to start rooting against them. Rated: 2/4 Jun 10, 2004 Full Review Jon Popick Planet S Magazine A cross between Cast Away and Swept Away, carefully flitting between the quality and pretentiousness of them both as it constantly reinvents itself. Rated: 5/10 Apr 9, 2004 Full Review Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Preston's screenplay is ingenious, drawing on British classics like Cul-de-Sac and The Servant to constantly undermine audience expectations. Rated: 3.5/5 Nov 9, 2003 Full Review Erik Childress eFilmCritic.com Even David Lynch would watch this and yell out "what the crap!" Rated: 1.5/4 Oct 3, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Melanie (Rachael Blake), an attractive single girl, is out on the town with her girlfriends when she meets a good-looking and intriguing man (Sam Neill) who takes an immediate interest in her. She agrees to leave with him and accompanies him to his boat, which takes off for the remote island on which he lives. Slowly realizing she has been kidnapped, Melanie struggles to maintain her composure as she interacts with her captor -- to whom she still feels a strange, reluctant attraction.
      Director
      Gaylene Preston
      Screenwriter
      Duncan Preston
      Production Co
      Gaylene Preston Productions, Huntaway Films
      Rating
      PG-13
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 2, 2021
      Runtime
      1h 36m
      Sound Mix
      Surround
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