Uriah43 "Kate" (Jennifer Aniston) is a young, single and promising employee of an advertising company who is held back because the boss, "Mr. Mercer" (Kevin Dunn) doesn't believe that her current life situation is stable enough to keep her fully committed to working at the firm. So to counter that perception her best friend, "Darcy" (Illeana Douglas) convinces Mr. Mercer that she is engaged to a man by the name of "Nick" (Jay Mohr) even though Kate barely knows him. This immediately prompts Mr. Mercer to invite Kate and Nick to dinner in order to get to know him. To make matters even more complicated, the person she has a crush on named "Sam" (Kevin Bacon) is not interested in her at all—until he hears that she is engaged to Nick. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a rather tepid rom-com which suffered from predictability and a sparse amount of humor. That being said, I have rated this film accordingly. Average.

david-sarkies I was going to give this movie a 6 but I thought the end was so well done that I gave it that one extra point. As a movie as a whole there isn't much that stands out from other movies, but I thought that the ending was cool and it was that which stuck in my mind.Basically the movie is about a girl who wants to get ahead but seems to be too picky about her men. As such, the good jobs are out of reach and the guy she likes is not interested because she is not married. So, when people see a photo of her sitting on a man's lap, she seizes upon the opportunity to say that he is her fiancé. Things start to turn around, until they decide to meet him, so she tries to arrange with him to break off their relationship, but unfortunately he falls in love with her, and she realises that he is actually quite a nice guy.I guess there are a couple of things that stick out here. The main thing is in regards to what the boss says at the beginning of the movie. Basically the company is only interested in promoting you if you are a safe investment - namely you will not run off to another company because they give you a better offer, so what they do is encourage you to marry, buy an expensive house and an expensive car, so that you are such in debt that you need to keep the job.It seems more a safeguard for the corporation than for the person involved, because if they stuff up badly then they loose their job and are in deep thickets because they are no longer on such a great income. I guess it also says that a little white lie to get ahead is okay, but in reality it is not. Once one begins to live a lie, or get trapped in a fantasy world, then when reality hits home, you cannot handle it.This movie is okay, and the ending is great, but unfortunately some of the moralistic overtones simply suck.

gcd70 From director Glenn Gordon Caron, "Picture Perfect" is a predictable, everyday romantic comedy that is lifted above the drudgery by the movie's bright cast alone.Jennifer Aniston is a fresh, enjoyable movie newcomer. She plays well the frustrated career woman who can't get her job or her relationships sorted out. Jay Mohr is the nice guy who tapes weddings for a living and Kevin Bacon is the sleazy Sam, a guy who sticks to unavailable women to avoid commitment. Likable support from Ileana Douglas, Olympia Dukakis (though not at her best) and Kevin Dunn.Tuesday, April 25, 2000 - Video

barbecuedbanana A consistent homage to all the 'values' that have brought the credit crunch to the USA and UK.Selfishness and shallowness portrayed as acceptable and lovable characteristics.The underlying theme being that it is fine to lie, cheat, get into debt, deceive your closest friends and it will all work out fine - as long as you really really want whatever it is you are prepared to lie, cheat and deceive about.A career woman, uses a nice person, a stranger she meets at a wedding, shows no interest in him as a human being and despite saying 'I don't want you to feel like a thing' goes on to treat him exactly as a 'thing'. A prop to help her get what she wants.What she wants is to sleep with a serial womaniser, to get promotion and higher pay and that's about it really.Then when she gets them she decides they aren't as shiny as she thought they'd be and wants the 'thing/stranger/wedding guy' to be her permanent plaything instead.She still has no idea about him as a person other than he took the time to get to know her (and for some incomprehensible reason given her behaviour and lack of any redeeming characteristics) and bought her a watch to replace one she lost as a child.Yet based on this tenuous reason she admits the subterfuge to her bosses and risks her job. Given she has already decided the job isn't all that great - it isn't that much of a sacrifice.Then the 'new improved' female gatecrashes a strangers wedding, risks the business of her intended 'plaything' by ensuring he will be remembered as the guy who ruined his clients wedding by being stalked by a nut job.For some reason this selfish, irresponsible act endears the used, abused 'plaything' guy so that he agrees to be 'the one' for her - kiss, kiss, end of film.The main guy character has in effect fallen in love with a selfish, controlling, manipulative, scheming narcissist and signed up to be treated badly until she finds something more shiny to distract her in the future.So given how stupid a lot of people are that bit is probably true to life at least.But touching, funny, heart warming - no it isn't.