I got this movie because I'm a big Jennifer Aniston fan. I don't think she's the greatest actress in the world - she's more like a movie personality. And I like her. This film is a nice little, sort of romantic tale. Good characters, interesting story and plot. Fairly predictable ending. However, the entire movie did a complete and total FAILURE with the ending. While watching the movie and the couple slips behind the pillar in the church and everyone is listening, I turned to my girlfriend and said, "If they do this horrible thing where everyone realizes they are going to be and they start to clap, I'm going to puke" Sure enough, the did the worst possible thing. How many movies - An Officer and a Gentleman, Shallow Hal, just to name a couple off the top of my head, have you seen this stupid scene in? I mean seriously, you're at a wedding, two total strangers interrupt it, and as a person in the audience you hear them talking, the clap! Cripes, if i was a movie producer and someone showed me a script with this tired old old ending, I'd throw it back at them and yell "come back with something original" Other than the totally horrible final, it was a nice film.

While 1997's "Picture Perfect" wasn't Jennifer Aniston's first movie, it was her first starring role. She plays Kate, a talented ad executive in New York City who's passed up for promotion because her boss (Kevin Dunn) thinks she's not dependent enough on the company to be reliable in the long-term. In other words, she's single and doesn't own a home, etc. Her best friend (Illeana Douglas) encourages her to fake an engagement to a guy she barely knows from Boston, Nick (Jay Mohr), and then stage a break-up after she gets promoted. Meanwhile, Kevin Bacon lurks in the background as the office lothario.Jennifer proves that she has what it takes to carry a major film, no sweat; it's just that the movie in question is mediocre. Actually, I thought the first hour was quite amusing for a romcom, but after the big staged break-up it got dull as a certain character does some serious soul-searching. However, the cast is fine and I think "Picture Perfect" would be appreciated more by fans of 'chick flicks' and Aniston. Bacon is excellent as the bad boy, but Kate's just too good for him, literally. There is a good lesson at the end and I liked the boss' honest response to a certain person's confession.The film runs 105 minutes and was shot in New York City and nearby West Orange, New Jersey.GRADE: C

Glenn Gordon Caron has good form with romantic comedy caper type films as creator of the television series, Moonlighting. In Picture Perfect Jennifer Aniston is Kate working in an ad agency with a thing for work colleague Kevin Bacon, who only goes out for women with commitments such as being married in order to avoid commitments himself.One day Kate's friend tells everyone at the office that Kate is engaged to Jay Mohr in order to get promotion at work. Jay is a photographer she met earlier at a wedding and now she needs to convince him to pretend to be her fiancé.Over time Jay falls for her although once she is seen to be attached Kevin Bacon finally makes a mover for her.There is a horrible odour of deceit in the plotting of this film. Both Bacon and Aniston play nasty, self centred people with only Jay Mohr playing a decent character and he is the only one who uplifts the film thanks to the actors subtle and sincere performance.

An Aniston vehicle, released at the very height of Friends' success on telly. It's a sunny, back-to-front romcom after Green Card, for example, in which Kate (Aniston) uses a guy she meets at a wedding to advance her career. Like most men on the planet, Jay Mohr's Nick can't simply play the attendant fiancé though and the complications bring things to a head, nicely resolved in one of the least likely, contrived, wedding-themed conclusions I've seen in this kind of flick. Mad.Illeana Douglas and Kevin Douglas are the stalwart, bankable support and Mohr is capably riding the surf of being the chief antagonist of predecessor Jerry Maguire. The film is all about Aniston though. She's a good actress giving the flimsy conceit some body. Speaking of body, she's also sufficiently aware of her own appeal to wear a second-act dress a size too small, as well as no bra in the denouement. Oh and Kevin Bacon's in it too. As I say, mad. 3/10