The Perfect Roommate

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Totally fun thriller and as always, Boti Bliss is a blast to watch!

Totally fun thriller and as always, Boti Bliss is a blast to watch!

The movie opens with a rich man being arrested for murder to his surprise. His wife is Carrie (Boti Bliss). We then advance 11 months. At first I thought this was simply another "Single White Female" rip off. The difference is that the roommate is not a psycho, but a criminal who has a partner Anna Prieto (Cinthia Burke). She becomes the roommate of Ashley Dunnfield (Ashley Leggat), daughter of the man who was arrested. 10 minutes into the movie you should have a plot outline. If not they explain it midway through the picture. Carrie, the roommate cuts out pictures of Richard Dunnfield, tapes them into a subject notebook, and also keeps notes in it, as if she is setting herself up. This is done while ominous "made for TV" music is playing. Carrie does everything she can to endear herself to Ashley...and her single dad. Ashley loves Matt (Jon McLaren) who dad thinks isn't good enough for her. This causes friction. Meanwhile dad is hanging out with his Ex-gf (Teresa Donovan). Part way through the movie a conversation between Carrie and Anna reveals their plan and most of the remaining plot. The soundtrack was "made of TV" quality as was the acting. Canada has done better. This is a lower tier, slow developing thriller for people who don't like to think too hard. No F-bombs or nudity.

the movie started out very good. i thought this is going to be great. william moses is always great, and he was in this movie also. it starts out with the husband being arrested, but nothing more really heard about it. his wife then gets a job as a waitress, and starts here venture to hook up with one of the servers dad because he is rich. what gets me is carrie is anything but beautiful, but she sweeps mr dunfield off his feet. after carrie sleeping with her dad, and her finding out, she never kicks her out of her apt. why would you let someone stay when you know they did that? carrie also walks around in teenage clothing that is too small for her and looks ridiculous. the whole plot was predictable,and the acting besides ashley and mr dunfield was not the best. it seems like it is just dragged out way to long. you know within the first 10 minutes how everything is going to pan out. would never re watch it.

The best line in "The Perfect Roommate" (a.k.a., "Dark Secrets") is spoken by young Ashley (Ash) Dunnfield when she first begins to suspect her older roommate of the shenanigans of a classic gold digger. When Ash catches her scantily clad roommate Carrie Remington alone with Ash's father in his house, Ash proclaims that Carrie is "basking the afterglow" of a night spent in the sack with her wealthy father, Richard "Daddy Warbucks" Dunnfield. The audience watches in horror as Carrie connives with her murderous tag-team partner Anna Prealta, as Ash nearly dies of anaphylactic shock in an allergic reaction to the fish oil that Carrie intentionally laced into Ash's lunch. Later, the cab driver Anna takes Richard's ex-girlfriend and rival to Carrie on a joyride that ends in Paula's murder. With a checkered past that involved both murder and the framing of an innocent man in the death of a prostitute, Carrie and Paula have set their sights high on catching the unsuspecting Richard and his sweet and naive daughter in their web of deceit and greed. As the savvy Ash comes to suspect her roommate of reeling in her gullible dad, she makes a desperate dash to New Jersey to warn him of the menace of Carrie and Paula. The film's ending could have been more tidy. Rather than relying on the miraculous appearance of a New Jersey state trooper to save Ash, her dim-witted boyfriend Matt and his brother Ethan, a former cop, could have at least lifted a finger in the attempt understand and thwart the evil machinations of Carrie and Paula. In the film, there is one scene in which Carrie is staring at herself in the mirror. This is a character living in the afterglow of her narcissism and the self-centered view that she is special and deserving of the attentions of a wealthy gent like Richard Dunnfield. It is entirely due to the heroic efforts of Ash that the dark secrets of Carrie Remington are laid bare for all the world to see.

In this unintentionally amusing turkey, a female crime team plots to have one of them marry and bump off a wealthy widower. The widower's daughter Ashley, her boyfriend Matt, and his brother double as super-sleuths who solve a mystery that the police and DA's mistakenly pin on Carrie's ex-husband. Carrie's partner-in-crime Anna takes out widower Richard's ex-girlfriend just in case she figures out what's going on. Somehow it all comes together in the end. Ashley and the boys missed their calling. They should've been detectives. Oh, and for a movie taking place in Philadelphia there are lots of Canadian accents. If you need some amusement, you can do worse.

I just got the W movie channel and this is what they showed tonight. The listings said Contact with Jodie Foster was on. Instead, they showed this derivative, hackneyed, poorly acted and amateurishly written made-for-TV movie. Someone is clearly asleep at the channel, but I gave it a chance. It does have a plot that seems to be leading up to a violent encounter a la Single White Female. There is tension - who is going to get hurt or killed? Everything that is going to happen is telegraphed and obvious. I won't put any spoilers here, but it was watchable purely because of the hilariously bad (like a high school play) acting and the unbelievably overdone plot - haven't we seen a story like this about 1,000 times only without the plot fizzling out? PS I found out the name of it by typing in the keyword "roommate" in IMDb.

The villain is so poorly acted that it was all I could do to not only finish the movie, but not cringe or laugh. This movie was so dull and the ending happened so quickly with no suspense that I couldn't believe it when my tv showed there was less than 10 minutes left. I didn't recognize BB with this hair, but seeing photos on IMDb, I do recognize her from CSI. She had so many terrible scenes. The "climax," if you can call it that where she had her villainous breakdown was more awkward than scary and she droned on so long, all Ashley had to do was throat punch her or something. I half expected the old gas attendant to come back and take her out. It was just bad. As a positive, it wasn't slow, but so much of the movie was absurd. The dad who was skeptical of his daughter's older roommate...sleeps with her and goes head first into a fling after a couple of days. Not to mention not getting how that might strain his already fragile relationship with his daughter. He was just too naive to be believed. The happily ever after ending was kind of ironic. Ashley was all about not taking money from her dad and in the span of two minutes, she takes gifts and her boyfriend takes jobs. It's a super boring movie and only worth it for background noise. My dvr recorded the opening scene of The Wrong Tutor and that couple of minutes was more intriguing and suspenseful than this entire flick. The actress who played Ashley was in a movie with Jon Cor and Adrienne Barber (as the villain) and BB could take some lessons from Adrienne on how to play a similar role.

My god, what to say about this movie? It's one of those made for TV movies you come across one afternoon when you're a bit bored and channel surfing and decide to watch to see if it's any good, then when you realise how cheesy and lame the 'storyline' (if you can call it that) is, and how terrible some of the acting is (BOTI BLISS please step forward!!) you can't stop watching it because it's so bad it's entertaining for that reason alone! I won't go into details about what this movie's about (read some of the other reviews for that!) but it really is very lame and, as other reviewers have commented, Boti Bliss is one of the main reasons it's so bad. With her dark 'pixie' haircut she looked like an Audrey Hepburn wannabe, but failed miserably. She isn't 'femme fatale' or sexy enough to have played that role - she looked more like a bug eyed middle- class suburban housewife with a husband who has an incredibly boring but well paid job. Also, her acting in general was awful and she just wasn't believable in that role. To be expected to believe that William Moses's character would fall head over heels for someone like her was ridiculous. William Moses seems to have become the Susan Lucci of TV movies and he's not a bad actor so I wish he wouldn't lower himself to be part of crappy movies like this! He can do much better. Also, I noticed a goof in this movie, which doesn't seem to be mentioned on here. When the daughter rushes from the restaurant towards the end of the movie, after asking her boyfriend to take over her shift because she has to go and warn her dad about what's going on, her hair is in a ponytail, yet at one point when the camera goes to her driving along in her car suddenly her hair is down and not in the ponytail anymore. Presumably, if her character was so frantic to get to her dad before anything bad happened to him she'd hardly have taken the time to change her hairstyle on the way there! Oh, as for the first review on here of this movie - as someone else has commented, that the reviewer (Coop Burtonburger?!) has given this movie a 10 star review is hilarious! Either that person was associated with the making of the movie or he's connected to someone who was part of the movie - and given that he gushed twice about one of the actresses (I think the actress who played William Moses's character's daughter) I think maybe it was her boyfriend or someone who's obsessed with her !! Of course, the other alternative is that that Coop Burtonburger has recently landed from Mars and this was the first movie he has ever seen and he was so awestruck that he thought it was incredible! Oh, or he could have been as high as a kite when he saw it and reviewed it. Those are the only possible reasons surely for giving a 10 star rating to a movie that should really have a zero star rating ! !