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The Perfect Roommate

  • TV Movie
  • 2011
  • TV-PG
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
4.1/10
611
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Boti Bliss and Ashley Leggat in The Perfect Roommate (2011)
CrimeMysteryThriller

A young woman becomes increasingly suspicious of the motives of her older roommate.A young woman becomes increasingly suspicious of the motives of her older roommate.A young woman becomes increasingly suspicious of the motives of her older roommate.

  • Director
    • Curtis Crawford
  • Writer
    • Christine Conradt
  • Stars
    • Boti Bliss
    • Ashley Leggat
    • William R. Moses
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    4.1/10
    611
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Curtis Crawford
    • Writer
      • Christine Conradt
    • Stars
      • Boti Bliss
      • Ashley Leggat
      • William R. Moses
    • 17User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Boti Bliss
    Boti Bliss
    • Carrie
    Ashley Leggat
    Ashley Leggat
    • Ashley
    William R. Moses
    William R. Moses
    • Richard
    Jon McLaren
    Jon McLaren
    • Matt
    Peter J. Gray
    • Kyle
    Cinthia Burke
    • Anna
    Peter Michael Dillon
    Peter Michael Dillon
    • Marty
    • (as Peter Dillon)
    Sean Tucker
    Sean Tucker
    • Detective York
    Trie Donovan
    Trie Donovan
    • Paula Wickless
    • (as Teresa Donovan)
    Christie Watson
    • Ethan
    Jasmine Chan
    • Wasabi Waitress
    Luigi Saracino
    Luigi Saracino
    • Homeless Man
    Charlie Ebbs
    Charlie Ebbs
    • Bar Patron
    • (as Charles Ebbs)
    Sophie Gendron
    • Renée
    Tim Finnigan
    Tim Finnigan
    • Roland
    Florence Moore
    • Neighbor
    Robert Welch
    • Gas Attendant
    Daniel Simpson
    • John the Concierge
    • Director
      • Curtis Crawford
    • Writer
      • Christine Conradt
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    User reviews17

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    10jonijohn

    Love this!

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

    A seductress with a "Moe" haircut? I don't think so.

    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.
    1randy_kay

    A film production company based in Ottawa, Canada?

    It's funny when you read the reviews for a terrible film like this one and see one person, in this case "Coop Burtonburger" giving it a 10 out of 10 and saying it was the 'best film they've ever seen!' because you just KNOW these people are involved with the film in some capacity. The guy has only ever reviewed 1 film and it's THIS ONE and his giving it a 10/10, too funny. I wonder if he own Capital Productions, the company that made this piece of garbage.

    Come on man, gimme a break. I've never even HEARD of Capital Productions/ It's clearly some little production company that's feeding off government tax credits which is why it's based in Ottawa. the Capital of Canada.

    Anyhow, a pretty terrible film all around.
    1Kittycat63

    Another Lame Canadian Made for TV Movie (titled 'Dark Secrets' in the UK)

    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 ! !
    2suze-4

    The unbelievably bad acting and plot make it semi-fascinating

    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.

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      In Ashley's apartment prior to and at the party, the black dress that Ashley is wearing has a shoulder strap over her right shoulder. When she returns from the party, the strap remains on her right shoulder until she sits down. The strap then changes location to her left shoulder when the camera angle changes.

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    • Release date
      • September 12, 2011 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Canada
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Dark Secrets
    • Filming locations
      • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Capital Productions
      • Thrill Films
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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