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Summary: Beware of strangers
Review: Overall, a suspenseful movie despite some slasher scenes towards the end. I wasn't familiar with Fonda & Leight when I first saw this so the actresses did not have any influence on my rating of the movie. Another reviewer once mentioned that you would either treat this movie as a suspense centering on a girl's psychological problem or a typical slasher film. After having seen it for myself, its fair to say that its overall delivery is satisfactory & deserves a better opinion.
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Summary: Roomate from hell
Review: Single White Female for most of its running time evolves into a truly creepy, menacing little thriller laced with moments to make the skin crawl. However all the psycholgical elements that are cleverly thrown into the mix, get flushed down the tube in it's final half hour. Fonda, after finding out that her boyfriend cheated on her, promtly boots him out of her flat and takes on a roomate in the form of Jennifer Jason Leigh. At first she seems sweet, kind and gentle natured but things start to change dramatically as Leigh transforms from a mousy, incredibly shy introvert to a total psychopath (to put it lightly). It seems Fonda's new roomate has ideas of not only borrowing a few items of clothing but taking over her life for herself completly. Both leads are convincing enough given the rather irrational screenplay and there are times when the film has it's inceredibly dark moments but it all ends up in typical slasher style somewhat butchering a half well made movie.
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Summary: Oh, behave!
Review: Smashing, slashing story of young career woman (Bridget Fonda) who seeks a woman to share her dream apartment--as a way to keep her distance from an ex-fiancé--and finds she has acquired the Roommate from Hell.
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Summary: The roommate murders a puppy--need I say more?
Review: The events and dialogue of this movie are painfully predictable, and none of the stereotypical main characters are likable. The movie box blurb tells us what's going to happen, and the pictures of Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bridget Fonda (screaming and scared, respectively) don't leave much to the imagination. So much for "suspense." The R rating did not prepare me for the sight of a lovable Golden Retriever puppy splattered over the sidewalks of New York after the vengeful Leigh throws him out the window. Seduce the roommate's fiance, steal her clothes and perfume--but cold-bloodedly push her puppy to his death? *That's* unacceptable. Especially since Buddy was the only creature in the film with a personality. To be fair, this really isn't my sort of film to begin with. I only was watching it because I got a box of movies at a yard sale, some of which looked good.
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Summary: Sick, slick psychodrama
Review: This horror thriller directed by Barbet Schroeder is fairly tightly wound with some interesting psychology around an apartment and a ménage à trois. Jennifer Jason Leigh is the mousy, dykey new roommate (and such a beauty she used to be! almost a clone of Elisabeth Shue) interested in Bridget Fonda and Steven Weber (Fonda's semi-cheating fiancé). What we have is women's sex/fear fantasy and titillation with the obligatory "all men are dogs" theme thoroughly worked in. Leigh actually says "men are pigs," which amounts to the same thing, although I guess we could say women are pigs and men are dogs and call it even. There's some male titillation as well, of course, but Schroeder is primarily interested in spilling blood and out-dyking the dykes. Fonda is kind of cute and sexy, which is why I was able to watch the whole thing. She is, by the way, another one of those children of a star, like Liza Minelli, who would never but never have made it except for the family's stardom, yet achieved a certain appeal through hard work, minimal talent, and a certain audaciousness. She can be striking in a stark, animalistic sort of way. In some sense, her performance here anticipates her role as an America la femme Nikita in Point of No Return (1993) which came out the following year. Single White Female was considered a controversial sensation when it was released in the early nineties because of the gross sex and violence displayed, but I suspect future generations will see it as high camp and laugh out loud at how it panders to some of our baser instincts. The knock-down, drag-out, blood-flying fight between Leigh and Fonda near the end can be seen as hilarious in its absurdity, and kind of campish as a burlesque of Hollywood's increasingly desperate appeal to blood lust in order to sell tickets. The crude violence and sex was moronically combined with a politically correct portrayal of Fonda as a sympathetic career girl, fighting the good fight in a world filled with sexist men and sexual harassment. She was in effect the woman as male Hollywood hero.
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Summary: A Fight for Identity
Review: This is a really good film that is more than just a thriller, but a statement about identity as well. Barbet Schroder (Murder by Numbers) scales the lonely apartment building with his camera and shows the gargoyle statues perched on the ledge. There are many shots like this and a theme of a very small person in a very large and modern world that is close to swallowing up our individuality is explored in this disturbing thriller. Bridget Fonda gives a sweet performance as the emotionally vulnerable Allie Jones. She exposes her heart in an intimate moment with her boyfriend Sam (Steven Weber) when she tells him, "Your the best thing that's ever happened to me". When she is forced to advertise for a SWF roomate another sweet personality comes into play as shy Hedra Carlson (Jennifer Jason Leigh) wins over Allie and moves in. What develops is a slow evolving nightmare as Hedra subtly transforms herself bit by bit into Allie. Barely noticable at first it becomes more and more pronounced until Allie must fight for not only her identity but her life as well. Leigh is great as always and we feel sorry for her at first just as Allie does. She seems to have no life at all. Even when Allie thinks Hedra might be fooling around with someone in the apartment what she sees is quite different. Hedra taps into all Allie's insecurities until she is in danger of dissappearing. A scene in the dark where Allie's boyfriend Sam is sexually fooled by Hedra before he realizes it is not Allie is particularly disturbing. Schroder seems to be pondering if one person has become interchangable with another in today's world. The ending is violent and bloody but it has no other place to go. Hedra can't live as Allie if Allie still exists and Allie must overcome her fear in order to live. Both Fonda and Leigh work well together and each gives a fine performance in this lonely feeling movie that makes us think about our own identity. This is a good film to watch late at night with the lights off. It has a lonely and eventually disturbing feel to it and will have you wondering the next day how easy it would be....
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Summary: Keeps Your Attention
Review: This is not a particularly good film despite how awesome the plot sounds. It involves a heartbroken Bridget Fonda befriending and becoming remates with Jennifer Jason Leigh, who becomes jealous when Bridget decides to get married and move out. Of course we can all relate to the jealous freind part and have likely had simular experiences....but who wants to see a movie about it. However, I have to take my hat off to the makers of this film because despite how boring the subject matter was becoming the film managed to keep the audiences' attention through a multitude of racy scenes. In the beginning we see Bridget Fonda in the Buff walking around pointlessly...later on Jennifer Jason Leigh joins in with some buff of her own in about several different scene. In addition there are many other raunchy scenes that are designed to keep the audiences attention and they work well. So all in all I would recommend this film.
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Summary: Single Crazy Female
Review: This movie is about a women who breaks up with her boyfriend and decides to put an ad in the Newspaper for a roomate..She interviews several applicants and finally settles on Heddy..Little does she know but her new roomate is a psycho, out to steal her life...
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Summary: Scary
Review: This movie is going to make your skin crawl! Bridget Fonda has a new "perfect" roommate. She seems to be a really nice girl; fun, understanding, just plain nice. Great to have around. But then the girl turns out to be the psychotic roommate from Hell, changing her hair color, wearing her clothes.... trying to BECOME her! REALLY good. I mean it. REALLY, REALLY GOOD.
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Summary: Very good till it turns silly at the end
Review: This movie sets exactly the right menacing tone for a story about a nice, breezy, get-up-and-go girl who discovers she's just invited the ultimate female headcase to be her roommate. It keeps your attention well, throws in some good sinister details, and then somehow loses its grip in the last half-hour. Also, I am not quite sure that the character of Fonda's boyfriend works - he is meant to have reformed himself and to have given up womanizing, but he actually looks like a creep throughout. As a result, we think Fonda herself must be a bit wet. Still, worth watching.
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