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1992 Certificate 18
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Traumatized by the discovery that her live-in fiance has cheated on her with his ex-wife, Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda) decides to find a roommate to share her apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. After interviewing candidates, beautiful, sophisticated career woman Allison settles on Hedra Carlson (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a .. Read more

Starring Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman
Director Barbet Schroeder
Genres Thriller

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Single White Female

Traumatized by the discovery that her live-in fiance has cheated on her with his ex-wife, Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda) decides to find a roommate to share her apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. After interviewing candidates, beautiful, sophisticated career woman Allison settles on Hedra Carlson (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a shy, mousy woman who has a hopeless fashion sense, and seemingly, a heart of gold. At first she's an ideal roommate, asking Allison for advice and attempting to emulate her cosmopolitan style. But Hedy's adulation grows more and more disturbing as Allison realises that her new roommate has a dark side. Barbet Schroeder (BARFLY, REVERSAL OF FORTUNE) directed this taut psychological thriller. Jason Leigh is mesmerizing as the disturbed Hedy; Fonda is well cast as the unwitting victim of another's psychosis.

Starring Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman, Frances Bay, Stephen Tobolowsky
Director Barbet Schroeder
Studio UCA
Run time DVD: 1 hr 43 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Collections 100 Feisty Females, 100 Horror Films, 100 Top Thrillers
Genres Thriller
Language DVD: English
Subtitles DVD: Czech, English, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish
Released DVD: 12 Oct 1998
Production year: 1992
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Jennifer Jason Leigh plays the lodger from hell who makes nice Bridget Fonda's life a misery in this ludicrous but hugely enjoyable thriller from director Barbet Schroeder. Based on John Lutz's novel, this has Fonda as a chic Manhattanite looking for a roommate, and Leigh as the shy, frumpy “perfect” candidate. That is, until she starts dressing like Fonda and even tries to steal her boyfriend. You may be able to guess the end from the first five minutes, but that doesn't make it any less enthralling, and it should certainly win a few plaudits for the most ingenious use of a stiletto heel in a movie.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006
  • 1 stars out of 4

    Well-done thriller, but its subject-matter is too familiar from too many recent films to cause much in the way of a frisson.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 11 out of 13 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Too good to miss

    Any movie in which Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh take their kit off, not once, but several times, cannot be all bad and this movie could never be described as bad.

    It's a slow burning thriller in the very best tradition. Think 'Psycho' but with decent dialogue. The lack of obviousness is Hitchockian in it's execution. You will watch thinking you can predict the twists....you won't!

      • A customer from B-O-T, Staffs
      • Posted 09 Mar 2004 21:24

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Superb!

    An afternoon in front of the telly well spent, gripping from early on right to the end.

    Well worth a watch.

      • A customer from Ayrshire
      • Posted 21 Mar 2006 14:05

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