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Perfect
It took nerve to call a movie Perfect, especially when perfection is the movie's subject-matter (never mind its stylistic attainment) only part of the time. The "perfect" part has to do with how a typical Southern California health club called The Sports Erection -- er, Connection -- has replaced the singles' bar as a social hub. This part, though far from perfect, is certainly the best, particularly in the performances of Marilu Henner and Laraine Newman as definitive airheads, and particularly in the scene at a male strip club resembling Chippendale's. (Director James Bridges is willing to soften his moral glare, however, when his two stars -- Jamie Lee Curtis as the "Pied Piper" of fitness and John Travolta as the Rolling Stone investigative reporter -- are doing pelvic aerobics.) The larger subject is journalistic ethics, and this extends into a parallel (if shorter) storyline about the government's entrapment of a John DeLorean-type tycoon. The romantic "interest" sustained (on and off) throughout these ethical matters, and tidied up with some extremely slapdash continuity, is a real drag. Co-starring Jann Wenner as the editor of Rolling Stone, or in other words as himself. 1985.
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MPAA Rating: R
