The Perfect
Man (2005)
romantic comedy
directed
by : Mark Rosman
featuring
: Hilary Duff - Heather Locklear - Chris Noth - Mike O'Malley - Ben Feldman
running
time : 1 hour 56 minutes
A girl plays Cupid for her mom, but has
to invent the right man to woo her in this romantic comedy. Jean Hamilton
(Heather Locklear) is a single mother with two daughters, teenaged Holly
(Hilary Duff) and grade-school-aged Zoe (Aria Wallace). Fortysomething
Jean has stumbled in and out of a number of bad relationships in her lifetime,
and is desperate to find a good man; however, Holly has grown a bit tired
of Jean's favored means of therapy after a bad breakup -- packing up the
family and moving to a new city. Once Jean and her girls settle in Brooklyn,
Holly thinks they should stay for a while, and when Jean's romantic prospects
begin to look less than rosy, Holly and her new friend Amy (Vanessa Lengies)
decide to invent a secret admirer for her. Needing advice on what the "perfect
man" would say and do, Holly and Amy turn to Ben (Chris Noth), Amy's uncle
who talks a very good game when it comes to romance. But convincing Jean
that there's a real man behind the steady stream of letters and e-mails
from her new admirer isn't as easy as Holly imagines, and it looks as if
her imaginary suitor might get in the way of a flesh-and-blood Mr. Right.