Perfect Locklear doesn't quite match up

The Perfect Man

Director: Mark Rosman

Cast: Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, Chris Noth

Cert: PG

Suspend your belief that the sexy Locklear can’t find and keep a man and this romantic comedy seems passable … trouble is, the laughter comes when it shouldn’t and the entire project falls apart.

Duff plays a teenager who hates having to move to the next location when her mother (Locklear) runs foul of another lover.

She invents an on-line perfect man who woos with flowers and gifts … until the smitten mum reckons it’s time to meet her wonderful secret lover.

Daughter has to borrow a friend’s uncle (Noth) and keep coming up with reasons to persuade mum it’s for real.

Interestingly, the basic idea is a good one but it’s not followed through.

It could have been a much sharper, more sophisticated film, but it ends up as an ill-considered and extremely weak one.

Star Rating: 3/5