Jen Here I happened to turn on my TV and this movie was just beginning on Showcase. I like Sam Neill so I decided to get a cup of coffee and watch a few minutes. I ended up sitting through it all.Sam Neill, as 'The Man' made a very charming, slightly twisted but totally delusional character who escorts a very pretty but slightly drunk Melanie, played by actress Rachael Blake, to 'his place' which is a skiff docked in the harbor. She has too much wine to drink and passes out on his boat. When she wakes, they're out to sea. They arrive at a remote uninhabited island where 'the man' has a shabby but chic cabin on a bluff. He fixes her a hot bath, prepares a delicious dinner for her.It gets weird after this. He tells her he loves her, imagines she's someone else, she tries to escape, ends up stabbing him in the side. I thought that would be the end of the weirdness, but it was just the start. The movie held my interest, made me laugh at some of the things Melanie does with 'the man'. It ends on an upbeat note.It's a love story really. We're led to believe it will be a story about kidnapping and being a hostage trying to escape but it's not at all. It's a very decent movie with a great performance by Rachael Blake. I'm surprised I haven't seen her in any movies before or since this one.

Ina_no_name Why does people who has seen a movie they think are bad but still have so much to say about it? Something must have gotten through them...Anyway, I was having a channel called Showtime on one night I couldn't sleep. I wanted to see what movie was coming up next and hoped it was something good.I had never heard of a movie called Perfect Strangers but I wanted to check it out, even though I was kind of skeptical it would be a love movie with a happy ending - those movies I hate so much....But the movie surprised me. I never knew what was going to happen next. A woman meets a man on a nightclub. I was afraid this would be one night stand kind of movie but luckily I was wrong! And the famous line Your place or mine? Is where the story begin.The woman decide to go to his house which turns out to be a houseboat. She spends the night there as she pass out and the man (Sam Neill, one of my fave actors) takes her to her sea and to an island where it's his real home. She gets scared and demand him to take her home but he doesn't listen.He brings her home to his place on the iceland and treat her like she is someone special and she get sucpicious that he's been like this to many women before her. He knows what he wants her to be and he get mad when all she want to do is to go home and pretend like nothing has ever happened.He promise her to bring her back home tomorrow but she feels trapped. That night she steals hs key to get out and escape but he scares her when he suddenly is awake and she automatically stabs him with the kitchen knife in her hand.She's now forced to stay and take care of him 'cause she doesn't know where to go if she leaves the island cause she isn't well known in the sea. She stays with him and being his nurse. She has to do everything for him as he lays in the bed not able to do anything. He tells her things and she begings to open herself a little for him but she doesn't want to admit she's falling in love with him and doesn't believe everything he's saying about her.One day the man gets worse and she takes him to the boat to try to get him to a hospital to save his life but he dies onboard. She get upset and bring him back on the island. She stays at his place and hide his body in the freezer outside of the house. Even though he's dead she still see him, pretendig that he's still alive. That's her way to survive where she is.This is movie with many twists and tuns and different genres, kind of like a Hitcock movie sort of way. Mystery and suspense, all at once.The performances is great, the nature is awesome and this is finally not a Hollywood movie. Good movies can be made without Hollywood too. And this movie proves is.And if you see this movie more than once you always discover something new about it and after just seeing it once it's a movie you won't forget so easily. It stays with you. It's a good sign even though you think it's good or bad. It's a worth watch.

alexandra-hendrick This film was by far the worst that I have ever seen. The plot was flat and confusing with unexplained twists that only seem to weaken the already nonsensical plot. Many of the points seemed unnecessary while other important parts were rushed or skipped altogether. Too much was thrown in too fast while many scenes seemed to have nothing to do with the previous one, leaving the audience in a state of confusion and unsure of what to think or expect. In all, I found it to be anti-climatic, confusing, poorly executed, and pathetically hilarious. I do not recommend this film, unless you would enjoy a complete disaster on screen.

harry wolf 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.