The perfect stranger movie trailer
Most of Rowena’s undercover work happens either online or in Hill’s posh New York ad agency where she poses as a temp assistant. If you ask me the real twist in this movie is that Halle Berry has an Oscar and Ribisi doesn’t. Things get interesting when Giovanni Ribisi’s character is involved, but that can be attributed to the fact that the guy is just an amazing actor to watch. What would otherwise take twenty minutes and three commercial breaks in an episode of “CSI” is drawn out into over an hour of sleepy undercover work and sometimes painful melodrama. It’s an easy opening to the story, one which unfolds in the first few moments of the film, but it’s also where it hits a lull. She digs up the dirt she needs, thanks mostly to her research assistant Miles (Giovanni Ribisi), who is so ridiculously good at technowizardy and hacking server firewalls that he makes the gang at CTU on “24” look like they’re playing Atari. Her gift is exposing the secrets of others, like a family values centered Senator who lately has been centering his values on his young male interns. Rowena (Halle Berry) is an investigative reporter who lives for the kill. That’s not to say it’s a boring story, just one that’s not told all that well. In fact, at times it gets so dull and confusing that it threatens to put the audience to sleep, thereby causing them to miss the very ending it’s trying so desperately to set up. “In ten days, you will be transformed,” she tells them, as they surround her in a later clip, each lying in open graves they apparently dug themselves.Perfect Stranger is one of those movies that makes a great effort at creating an unexpected ending, but it gets so caught up in trying to shock and awe you with a reality shattering, mind blowing, soda spilling twist that it forgets to make the rest of the story worth watching. “Surrender yourself to me,” she demands of her visitors, who gather around her in something not unlike a prayer circle. The trailer feels directly inspired by similar projects, like Big Little Lies and The Undoing.Ī trailer for the adaptation, which reveals only that the show is “coming soon,” depicts a dewy Kidman in a white pantsuit, her voice lilting in a meditative vibrato. However, these nine 'perfect' strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.
Watching over them during this ten-day retreat is the resort’s director Masha (Kidman), a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. In an interview with The Guardian, Moriarty said she was inspired by “this desire we all have for transformation.” She continued, “I can never see an article that says, ‘Just change this one thing about your life and you’ll be transformed forever’-even though you know when you click on it, it won’t work, I find it irresistible.”Īn official logline for the Hulu adaptation, via Variety, reads: It takes place at a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Nine Perfect Strangers, the author’s eighth adult novel, is set at a fancy wellness retreat, in which the mysterious resort director reigns over her customers’ minds and bodies. The source material for the series, which was confirmed by THRin May 2019, is the 2018 novel of the same name by Moriarty. The show is based on a book by Liane Moriarty. But as a producer, there’s an enormous amount of stress, feeling responsible for over 300 people’s safety and health.” As an actor, it’s just amazing to be able to work.
But you always know that at some point it could shut down, which is stressful. “It’s an ensemble, so 10 actors that are all working together, that are adjusting to being tested every day,” she told the outlet. In October 2020, Kidman spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the “strict protocol” surrounding production on the series, particularly in group scenes involving all 10 principle actors.