44 - The Perfect Man

Happy 2021, guys, gals and non-binary pals! We're starting off the new year with - not quite a splash - more like a tepid ripple, with this absolute yawn-fest of a film that features Hilary Duff trying to catfish her mum using a picture of Mr Big - surely EVERY 2005 mum's biggest fantasy, right?! Cue Hilary learning to be vulnerable and Heather (Locklear, not our host) learning to be a halfway decent parent, via some lame slapstick, cringey Scrabble jokes and, of course, people pretending to be who they're not - a prerequisite for any good teen film. This movie is kind of like a budget version of You've Got Mail, if Meg Ryan was a baker and Tom Hanks was a 17-year-old girl.