Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek out a roommate in order to keep her spacious digs.
Schroeder goes through the motions -- the movie is elegantly made -- but this synthetic Hollywood package panders shamelessly to the baser instincts.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2001
fresh:
The film is smooth, entertaining and believably sophisticated. It has far more sound psychological underpinnings than other movies of its type.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
If his two leads are adequate to the slick mechanisms of a formulaic thriller, neither they nor Don Roos' script (based on the novel by John Lutz) offer any original insights into insatiable emotional dependence.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
Despite excellent lead performances and numerous memorable scenes, this still feels like two different movies in one.
– Todd McCarthy,
Variety,
14 Apr 2008
rotten:
There's something dehumanizing about 90s horror thrillers that all but defeats the film's impulses toward seriousness; no matter how much the filmmakers work to make the characters real, the genre contrives to turn them into functions and props.