In an attempt to make her mother happy, Holly, a young teenager girl, whose suffers from loneliness and depression, as she has many failure relationships, makes a fake account and sends romantic messages for her mother, the thing that brings terrible for her.
[Hilary Duff movies] never do solve their one nagging flaw: Duff's characters are remarkably self-possessed for teens but not enough to recognize the sitcoms they inhabit.
The Perfect Man has a plot that turns sweet and charming Hillary Duff into a serial liar. She's not just telling little fibs. She's engaging in a prolonged and kind of mean practical joke on her mother.
Guardian
June 07, 2013
Watching this unspeakably rubbish teen romcom is, to quote David Lodge's classic description of National Service, like a punishment for a crime you can't remember committing.
Like a Nike commercial without a shot of the sneakers.
Variety
June 20, 2005
[The] situation is mined mostly for mild chuckles and tepid sentiment.
Observer (UK)
June 07, 2013
The intrigues are laboriously contrived, the film exudes disingenuous sentiments, and it has three happy endings -- one for Mum and one for each daughter.
