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| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 7, 1985 |
Starring:
Alma Beltran, Anne De Salvo, Gina Morelli, Jann Wenner, John Napierala, John Travolta, Perla Walter, Ramey Ellis, Stefan Gierasch
Summary:
A female aerobics instructor (Jamie Lee Curtis) meets a male reporter (John Travolta) doing a story for Rolling Stone Magazine on the body-building & health club industry in California, but it clearly isn't love at first sight.
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Perfect is gorgeous to look at, with its disciplined bodies (there is even a visit to a male strip joint) and modern cityscapes. Travolta was never more personable; doubts concerning his star presence are dispelled here. Jamie Lee Curtis matches him charismatically, despite her ambivalent role. [21 May 1985]
Perfect betrays itself in the end, but until it does, it's an
unexpectedly thoughtful consideration of "lifestyle" journalism, which by
nature allots to the unknown a sudden but ephemeral celebrity, and which
too frequently takes advantage of naive subjects eager to lower their
defences. [7 June 1985]
A glossy, engrossing piece of work. Yet the story feels worked up, inorganic. [10 June 1985, p.88]
Perfect is a trashy movie about women jumping up and down in leotards, but it's also more (and less) than that, a look at the wages of the free press. Despite a number of fine performances, a few good hoots and more daunting bodies, it's far from perfect. It touts the First Amendment like a corny romance from the '40s -- stars and stripes in spandex. [7 June 1985, p.D1]
If Perfect didn't have a germ of an idea tucked away in all its posturing silliness, it wouldn't be quite so infuriating. But it has: Superficially it's about sliding-scale morality in journalism today, a not uninteresting subject. [7 June 1985, p.C1]
I guess Perfect is a movie about aerobics, journalism, ethics and love and a couple of hunks. It is even more stupid than it sounds. It is the stupidest thing I have seen this year, in or out of the movies. [7 June 1985, p.C9]
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