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Genres:
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Thriller /
Drama
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Director:
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Barbet Schroeder
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Actors:
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Tara Karsian,
Michele Farr,
Christiana Capetillo,
Tiffany Mataras,
Krystle Mataras,
Amelia Campbell,
Bridget Fonda,
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Steven Weber,
Peter Friedman,
Stephen Tobolowsky,
Frances Bay,
Jessica Lundy,
Renée Estevez,
Kenneth Tobey
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Duration:
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108 min.
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Rating:
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(6.2/10)143.5
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Plot Summary:
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Alison "Allie" Jones is a software plotter in Redesigned York City. While her professional hero is on the rise -- she has created a computer software package that determination revolutionize the fashion world -- her personal life is a mess. Allie banishes her fianc? Sam Rawson from her lease-controlled apartment on Manhattan's Four Hundred advantage West Side, after discovering that he slept with his ex-wife. Allie finds platonic abundance in her neighbor Graham Knox, an aspiring actor with a sensitive shoulder to lean on. Realizing that the just way to hold on to her apartment is to find a r... oommate, Allie places an ad and interviews a succession of unsuitable candidates before settling on the shy Hedra "Hedy" Carlson, the ideal roomie in Allie's eyes. Hedy fast fills the void red in Allie's life during Sam's departure. Allie is only too exuberant to concede Hedy to cook and undefiled for her. Their conviviality deepens when Hedy brings home an adorable and -- unknown to Allie -- surely expensive puppy. Allie later discovers the stub and confronts Hedy, but Allie can't bring herself to part with the puppy. Unknown to Allie, Hedy erases Sam's phone messages when he calls to plead for a reconciliation. Before big, she's even begun dressing the same break down Allie does. Allie passes sour this unaccustomed behavior as that of an insecure but well-intentioned woman. When Allie reconciles with Sam nigh a month after Hedy moved into the apartment, Allie and Sam bagatelle with the suggestion of Sam motile into the apartment with Allie. Hedy goes over the rim, shrewd that this means that she would have to remove in sight of the apartment. Rhyme afternoon, while Allie and Sam are out of the apartment, the puppy, which Allie has grown to love, plunges mysteriously to its end from a window. And before long, Hedy's closet contains the claim still and all clothes as Allie's, and Hedy has indeed had her whisker ignore and dyed to match Allie's look, resulting in a astonishing comparableness between Allie and Hedy, with summit being in effect the however difference. More than a skimpy unnerved, a suspecting Allie talks to Graham. Graham advises Allie to get Hedy to move out of the apartment. Allie begins to scrutinize Hedy's background. Allie goes into Hedra's room and looks from stem to stern her possessions, and discovers that Hedy is not who she claims to be -- Hedy's real name is Ellen Besch. Years ago, when Ellen was 9-years-old, Ellen's duplicate sister Judy drowned at a classification discomfiting. An absolutely devastated Ellen hasn't been the done since Judy's undoing. The connection between siblings can be competent, but it can be uniquely in strength with twins. For years, Ellen's parents tried to delineate to her that Judy's extermination was not her responsibility, but Ellen under no circumstances forgave herself as a service to living while Judy died. Ellen, who had undergone futile counseling, had been looking in place of a female companion so Ellen could have a friend to put in place of Judy. That's why Ellen tries to look certainly like whatever roommate she had at the moment...so it would be like Ellen still had a twin sister. Before operating in wRead more Less
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Tags:
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Single White Female
A young New Yorker, Albie, on the (temporary) rebound from her boyfriend, advertizes for a flat-mate and gets Hedra, who doesn't just invade her space but takes over Albie's looks, her friends - you name it, the psychotic woman wants and needs it. The problem with this notion is that we need to believe in both situation and characters. But Hedra's murderous insanity is so glibly explained (she blames herself for her twin sister's death) that she becomes irritating rather than pathetic. The climax is a long time coming, and you can't help feeling that the adaptation would work better as a play.
YOU GOTTA RENT THIS ONE!
This film had me hooked from start to finish. A really good story throughout about a very disturbed woman who moves into a house with a newly SWF (Single White Female) She seems the ideal flatmate until she starts to change.
Both parts played terrifically well. You definatley will not be able to predict what's coming up next. ENJOY! I know you will...
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