The perfect man

Format:

Video disc

Title:

The perfect man

ISBN:

9781417030125

Edition:

Widescreen format.

Publication:

Universal City, CA : Universal, [2005]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Title and credits from container.

Story by Michael McQuown & Heather Robinson & Katherine Torpey.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005.

Special features: Mom & me featurette; getting the perfect look featurette; on the set with Hilary, blogs & buddies; deleted scenes; outtakes.

Special features: deleted scenes; outtakes; "Mom & me"; "Getting the perfect look; " :The clever clapper; " "Ready, set, soak, shoot; " "The sweet arts - creating the cakes; " feature commentary with filmmakers; On the set with Hilary - blogs and buddies; Hangin' with Hilary; Hangin' with Heather; Chattin' with Chris; coming attractions.

Summary:

Holly is determined to find the ideal man for her single mom. With no flesh-and-blood options in sight, she creates an imaginary secret admirer based on a charming real-life restaurant owner.

As a teenager, Holly Hamilton is tired of moving every time her single mom, Jean, has another personal meltdown involving second-rate guys. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man. Holly creates an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her shaky self-esteem through e-mails. When the virtual relationship takes off, Holly finds herself having to produce the suitor, she decides to borrow her friend's charming and handsome Uncle Ben as the face behind the e-mails, notes and gifts. Holly must resort to increasingly desperate measures to keep the ruse alive and protect her mom's newfound happiness.

Reading Level:

MPAA rating: PG.

MPAA rating: PG; for some mildly suggestive content.

Subject(s):

Teenage girls -- Drama.

Single parents -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Single mothers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Mothers and daughters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

New York (State) -- New York.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Added Author:

O'Malley, Mike, 1966-

Beck, Christophe, 1972-

McQuown, Michael.

Robinson, Heather, 1978-

Torpey, Katherine, 1969-

Added Corporate Author:

Universal Pictures (Firm)

Holds:

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Summary

Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear and Chris Noth star in this hilarious yet heartwarming comedy about mothers, daughters and the outrageous lengths people will go to for love. Holly Hamilton (Duff) is on a mission to find her single mom (Locklear) a perfect man - even if she has to make that man up! Without other options, she creates an imaginary secret admirer based on a charming restaurateur (Noth). But this scheme keeps Holly on her toes more than it actually sweeps her mother off her feet. One crazy mishap after another leads the two of them to discover that sometimes what you're looking for is already right in front of you.

Summary

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. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi