4/10
Matchmaker
12 June 2006
Warning: Spoilers
For lack of better movies to watch, "The Perfect Man", shown recently on cable, seemed harmless enough when there was nothing better at the same time slot. This film, directed by Marc Rosman, and written for the screen by Gina Wendkos, is a rehash of other, better made movies.

The premise that this single mother can pick up and leave her last home and move to Brooklyn with her two young daughters and finds a great apartment, a nice job, and romance, is for people that live on a cloud, but not in this world. Ms. Wendkos and the others that contribute to this romantic comedy don't have a clue about reality. Probably the rent for this apartment goes for over $1,500.00 a month and she is probably making minimum wage at the bakery. Hello!!! Unless she's receiving child support payments, she could not afford to live there. Only in movies such as this would a Jean Hamilton find everything and end up with a hunk of a man in the process.

The older daughter, Holly, is a girl that needs some help because in her quest for getting her mother interested in a man, she decides to create him and introduce this Ben to her mother when she chats on line. Holly plays one of the cruelest tricks to a human being, let alone to her own mother. When she realizes she has made a terrible blunder and her mom is going to be at the restaurant her chat friend Ben owns, she panics and ruins the place and who knows how much damage she causes by activating the sprinkler system. Holly is a girl that is also out of touch with life.

"The Perfect Man" is recommended for people that think everything is possible in the movies, even if they present a distorted view of reality.
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