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PICTURE PERFECT (PG-13) 

Reviewed August 2, 1997 - Check out the Picture Perfect web site.

In Picture Perfect, the latest romantic comedy to hit theaters this summer, "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston plays Kate Mosley, a bright, young, and hopelessly single advertising director who's career seems to be in limbo.  You see, her boss prefers employees who are "stable" (i.e. married, mortgage-bound, etc.), believing that these employees are less likely to leave the company for a competitor.  On the verge of being left off a major advertising assignment, Kate's friend Darcy (Illeana Douglas) decides to help Kate out...by creating a fiancee for her. 

Naturally, Kate is uneasy about this arrangement at first, but as her career and love life begin to improve due to her phantom fiancee, she begins to play along with the ruse.  Things go well for a while, but as you'd expect events quickly begin to complicate.  Mixed signals, miscommunication, and pure bad timing come together, and when Kate tries to untangle the mess, the comedic sparks begin to fly.

Directed and co-written by Glenn Gordon Caron (of "Moonlighting" fame), Picture Perfect is a light, pleasant romantic comedy that has its share of laughs.  Aniston is appropriately charming as Kate, and with fine supporting performances by Olympia Dukakis (as Kate's meddling mom), Kevin Bacon (as co-worker Sam) and Jay Mohr (as Nick, the fake fiancee), Picture Perfect makes for a likeable 100-minute diversion.  While certainly not groundbreaking cinematic work, this is not a bad film either, and probably worth a look for all those Aniston fans out there.  This 'Friend' may have a future in film...

Responses from cyberspace--thanks for writing!

scvm@mailexcite.com gives this movie  stars: "nice story with an idea that everyone has a twin soul or whatever, too romantic but a nice film to spare the time! Jay Mohr has the face of the cute guy every woman wants as a son-in-law. :)" (10/10/98)

mariapatricia76@hotmail.com gives this movie  stars: "I LOVE IT!!!!" (9/23/98)

David gives this movie  stars: "Aniston was the only thing you noticed during the film. Typical American-style dodgy ending with people clapping while the two folks kiss ! Ohh, gimme a break!! Didn't need it. Average film." (1/24/98)