Picture Perfect

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After helping a friend move into her new apartment, I was exhausted with all the accompanying weight lifting that we had to do. So I decided to relax with a light romantic comedy Picture Perfect

Picture Perfect is the story of Kate’s (Jennifer Aniston) ambition to have it all. Katie works in Mercer Advertising and is clearly very talented for the job. Her personal life is not that great – she is the last in her circle of friends to get married.

At work, she lands a big client and is now waiting for her big promotion which doesn’t come through. On top of her, her boss implies that she has no liabilities and no family, she is not considered “tied” to the company and hence passed over for promotion.

So it’s time to get her life in order and a little fibbing does nobody any harm, right?

She concocts a fake fiancé which tells her boss that she is not going anywhere and also surprisingly lands her in the bed of her colleague, Sam, whom she has always desired. For once her life is perfect, until one day when everyone wants to desperately meet the new fiancé and she has to find one or something along those lines…I am losing interest as I write.

To cut a long story short, she pays money to this guy, Nick to be the fiance and to stage a break-up, uses him and hurts him, and he falls in love with her..da..da..da..happy ending.

Things that worked 

Only Jennifer Aniston can make a cold calculating ambitious person likable. She does full justice to her incredibly cliched role. Also loved her wardrobe for the movie. Everyone else’s performance is meh – nothing to write home about really.

Things that did not work 

Unfortunately, you can’t watch a movie for Jennifer and her wardrobe alone. There have to be other things that need to work – like a good script. I have worked in the corporate world for many years and don’t think my boss ever gave a rat’s ass about my personal life. The story is so stupid. If you weren’t promoted cause you were not married, you would 

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