Perfect Stranger (2007)
Directed by James Foley
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
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Director James Foley (2007's " Perfect Stranger ") and writer Niall Leonard (E.L. James' husband) have made what amounts to hackneyed fan fiction, a pile-up of lame subplots in search of purpose, supposedly racy but really rather tame sex scenes not half as erotic as they think they are, and overwrought conflicts featuring a ticking time bomb, an attempted abduction at knifepoint, and even someone being held for ransom as they sit tied and gagged next to a railroad track.
Todd Komarnicki’s (Perfect Stranger) screenplay offers numerous perspectives.
Working from a screenplay by Todd Komarnicki (“Perfect Stranger”), director Clint Eastwood (“Million Dollar Baby”) approaches what has been called the “miracle on the Hudson” from a variety of angles while also focusing on the bureaucratic hassles that Sullenberger was forced to endure.
Screenwriter Todd Komarnicki (Perfect Stranger), who adapted Sully from the real-life Sullenberger's book Highest Duty (written with Jeffrey Zaslow), gives the movie an achronological, all-over-the-place structure, using Sully's visions, nightmares, and recollections as an underlying organizational principle.
Screenwriter Todd Komarnicki (Perfect Stranger), working from Sully’s 2010 memoir Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, scatters the depiction of the infamous flight and its forced landing throughout the film and presents parts of it multiple times from different perspectives (first from the passengers’ experience and then from Sully and Jeff’s viewpoint in the cockpit).
In a compact 91 minutes, Eastwood – working from a screenplay by Todd Komarnicki (“Perfect Stranger”) based on Sully’s memoir, “Highest Duty” – focuses less on the extraordinary “forced-water landing” and more on the ensuing federal investigation and the post-traumatic stress suffered by Sully and his co-pilot Jeff Skiles (a terrific Aaron Eckhart) after they’re grudgingly thrust into the media spotlight.
Director Clint Eastwood (2014's " Jersey Boys ") and screenwriter Todd Komarnicki (2007's " Perfect Stranger ") are less interested in making a hard-hitting character profile than they are in observantly presenting the events as Sullenberger grapples with the first signs of PTSD while attempting to defend his name and career from board members looking to pick holes in his actions during those fateful 208 seconds.