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Single White Female (1992)

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Reviews Counted:38

Fresh:22

Rotten:16

Average Rating:5.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: Traumatized by the discovery that her live-in fiancé has cheated on her with his ex-wife, Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda) decides to find a roommate to share her apartment on Manhattan's Upper West... Traumatized by the discovery that her live-in fiancé has cheated on her with his ex-wife, Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda) decides to find a roommate to share her apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. After interviewing candidates, beautiful, sophisticated career woman Allison settles on Hedra Carlson (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a shy, mousy woman who has a hopeless fashion sense, and seemingly, a heart of gold. At first she's an ideal roommate, asking Allison for advice and attempting to emulate her cosmopolitan style. But Hedy's adulation grows more and more disturbing as Allison realizes that her new roommate has a dark side. Barbet Schroeder (BARFLY, REVERSAL OF FORTUNE) directed this taut psychological thriller. Jason Leigh is mesmerizing as the disturbed Hedy; Fonda is well cast as the unwitting victim of another's psychosis. [More]

Starring: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman

Starring: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman, Stephen Tobolowsky, Frances Bay

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Director: Barbet Schroeder

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03/27/09
Amber Wilkinson
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film

A waste of the talented Jennifer Jason Leigh and director Schroder

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04/18/08
Beth Accomando
Beth Accomando
KPBS.org

Fluffy thriller, with moments of unintentional humour.

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04/14/08
Matt Mueller
Matt Mueller
Empire Magazine
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The climax is a long time coming, and you can't help feeling that the adaptation would work better as a play.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
04/14/08
Channel 4 Film

There's something dehumanizing about 90s horror thrillers that all but defeats the film's impulses toward seriousness; no matter how much the filmmakers work to make the characters real, the genre contrives to turn them into functions and props.

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04/14/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

A stylishly shot thriller with several hair-raising moments. Considering that it's directed by Barbet Schroeder and stars Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, it's also a major disappointment.

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04/14/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Despite excellent lead performances and numerous memorable scenes, this still feels like two different movies in one.

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04/14/08
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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Great suspense thriller.

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10/16/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
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As psychological thriller, it has a good beginning but poor ending. Even so, there eerie scenes, such as the one in which the women stand in front of the mirror examining themselves--it recalls Ingmar Bergman's Persona, also dealing with role reversal

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02/07/07
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

If his two leads are adequate to the slick mechanisms of a formulaic thriller, neither they nor Don Roos' script (based on the novel by John Lutz) offer any original insights into insatiable emotional dependence.

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02/09/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out

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10/16/05
Ryan Cracknell
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views

decent 90s thriller

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08/29/05
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

No review available.

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01/28/05
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

No review available.

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06/22/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

This should be trash, but Fonda and Leigh's performances keep things believably chilling.

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06/10/04
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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05/14/04
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
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04/06/04
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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03/27/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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02/25/04
Spence D.
Spence D.
IGN Movies

No review available.

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01/18/04
Greg Maki
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
 
 
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