Picture Perfect . Tucson Weekly . 08-25-97

Picture Perfect

DIRECTED BY: Glenn Gordon Caron

REVIEWED: 08-25-97

Jennifer Aniston plays a Madison Avenue copywriter whose boss, ludicrously, won't promote her unless he senses she's headed for the stability of marriage. When her friend solves the problem by inventing a fiancee based on a snapshot of a stranger (Jay Mohr), everything works out great--until that stranger becomes famous for saving a kid from a fire. Romantic-comedy situations ensue: Aniston hires Mohr to pretend they're a couple, Mohr falls for her, and the rest of the movie flips by like pages in a photo album full of people you don't really want to know. Despite an endless barrage of cleavage, Aniston just doesn't have enough charm to recover sympathy after her character makes some ugly manipulative moves; and though likable at first, Mohr loses our respect by repeatedly reacting to Aniston's callousness with nothing but sappy adoration. In the end, Picture Perfect is a textbook example of the soullessness that results when filmmakers place contrivance above characterization. Only Kevin Bacon, as a womanizing coworker who can't find Aniston attractive unless he thinks she's being "bad," emerges with any comic dignity.

--Woodruff

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