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Picture Perfect (1998)

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"PICTURE" IMPERFECT Aniston and Bacon star in a predictable tale

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Rated: PG-13; Genres: Comedy, Romance; With: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon and Jay Mohr; Distributor: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

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By Caren Weiner Campbell

This feature-length vehicle for Jennifer Aniston, the perky ''Friends'' star, truly seems to belong on the small screen. For one thing, Picture Perfect's premise -- contrived by director-cowriter Glenn Gordon Caron, the creator of ''Moonlighting'' -- is a ready-for-prime-time confection: To advance her career and entice an office lothario (Kevin Bacon), Aniston’s Kate claims to be engaged to an out-of-towner she hardly knows, a wedding videographer played with quiet sweetness by Jay Mohr. From there, this warm and cozy, predictable tale goes down as easily as tapioca pudding. Just as with a 22-minute sitcom, Caron seems to say, all’s well because the end’s swell. But that picture of life is just a little too perfect.

Posted Jan 23, 1998

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