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Actors: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Single White Female |
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Software designer Allie Jones (Fonda) has just left her boyfriend Sam (Weber) because he had a sleepover with his ex-wife. She finds a classy upper West Side apartment and advertises for a Single White Female like herself to be a roommate. All the prospectives seem weird until Hedy Carlson (Leigh) shows up and appears level-headed though rather plain looking (and toting a secret past). Things go fine until Allie gets back together with Sam and asks Hedy to move out, whereupon Hedy turns jealous, possessive, and resentful. She also starts acting very strange, adopting Allie's clothes and short orange hairstyle, then aggressively seducing Sam and finally killing people. A bit silly and predictable, and suffused with quite a bit of crude violence and sex leading up to a cliched horror movie climax, this stylish 1992 thriller is nevertheless buoyed by excellent performances by the two female leads.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Single White Female |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- hunted by killer/stalker
Criminal enemy is...
- crazed boy/girlfriend/spouse
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- engineer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- red
Hair style
- short/butch/lez (woman)
Body type
- skinny (woman)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- dangerous
- wealthy
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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