I'm extremely glad I bought this movie on a 3-pack DVD. After watching the cover featuring the gorgeous Anna Friel as a "Hook" for a male audience, and reading the plot on the back of it; it immediately caught my attention. The truth is that "Perfect Strangers" is not the typical mellow romantic comedy. It has a smart plot filled with endearing and funny dialogs, funny situations, a tongue in cheek sense of humor, and the most perfect ending you can have.The cell phone conversations between our principal characters are very well done and helps the movie to flow on a sweet rhythm. The comedy is also top notch like when, for example, Lowe's character's girlfriend comes by surprise to England and finds Sarah Alexander dressed as a sexy maid cleaning the shower. Or any special moment between the lead characters.Rob Lowe steals the show as the cool tempered frustrated musician that does perfectly his publicist job. The man is a great underrated actor! Anna Friel is super sexy with a sassy, fresh, happy attitude that completely fits her character. Through character development we get a special connection with the leading roles. We learn and understand their worries, expectations, and lives overall. The supporting characters are very fine and add an extra spice to the film. Sarah Alexander is delightful as the sassy funny best friend, Khandi Alexanderis just perfect as the villain-sexy bitch who turns things ugly for our leading male character.The score and direction is just standard and feels completely like a direct to video release but it's a surprisingly enjoyable performance.PLEASE give it a chance because it's the perfect romantic comedy experience.

The movie is funny and exciting, really delightful.. I was in Santiago, Chile last January for 3 months.. I bought this movie from a street vendor never heard of it before and with good reason, no DVD exists.. I can't believe this movie never made it to theaters.. I'd consider this movie better than any movies being advertised now.. well except for "The Eye" but then even that isn't original, an americanized version of the truly brilliant Cantonese version.. anyways sidetracked.. like I said Perfect Strangers is just about the cutest movie ever a must-see.. It's not sappy it pokes fun and is witty.. and I personally can't get enough

Perfects Strangers is no more than a typical, predictable, and nonsense romantic movie that I have seen million of times. Staring Rob and Anna Friel as an advertisers that get to swap job between New York and London. There they consult each other through the various phone conversation before they fall in love along the way.The main reason to watch this movie got to be the casts, they are all too good for this movie. The main reason I watch because it got Anna Frail and Rob, this movie doesn't do them justice. The directing is too blame, it was not not good at all and the cinematography make this movie look like as if it has been shot in the '80s. And the story was not very consistence, it s just too sense less and going no where. And some of the character are just too shallow. And the music doesn't go along with the movie at all.Overall, despite a low expectation – the movie is even lower than that. But it is all that bad, half way into the movie it started to get a little better and it become more watchable. But in the end you won't miss a single thing if you haven't seen it and if you seen it you will forget about it in next hours.Reason To Watch: Anna Frail Reason Not To: Seem Like A Waste Of Time.Rating: 3.5/10 (Grade: F).Please Rate After Read (Y/N) Thanks

The book is called "Summer in the City" by Robyn Sisman. It's pretty good. I had actually seen this movie on TV, and thought it was pretty cute. (I like Rob Lowe, I think he's underrated as an actor). ANYWAY, I had read another book by this author, "Weekend in Paris," and picked this one up not even realizing it was the basis for the TV movie. The movie keeps the two main character's names, the advertising agency, the co-worker sabotaging the Rob Lowe character--the basic plot, but the details differ somewhat (such as the ad account that is jeopardized). It was a cute movie, and pretty good read as a book. If you like "chick-lit."