The Perfect Assistant

2008
4.5| 1h35m| NR| en
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Rachel Parsons is the perfect assistant, but she's completely in love with her boss. She's got a secret obsession: be his wife and have kids. The problem is that he already has a family.

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Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
Diagonaldi Very well executed
BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS****Obsession is a bitch and administrative assistant Rachel Partson, Josie Davis, learns that the hard way in her trying to win over her boss David Wescott, Chris Potter, after she found out that his wife Carol played as a corpse not a real life human being by Jennifer Marcil, in a non-speaking role, was suffering from a food or drug induced stroke. Seeing her big chance Rachel sneaks into the emergency ward without anyone there bothering to notice her, they may well have been on their coffee brake, and pops a needly in her arm causing an air bubble to end up killing her.Now working to get David to fall in love with her Rachael gets very friendly with his 10 year old daughter Isabella, Veronique-Natale Szalankiewice, as well as makes sure that he wins the very lucrative Price Account by sabotaging David's rival for it, by blackmailing him, Grady Bransen,Ian M. Watson, in him being forced to drop it. Still as hard as Rachael tries to get David to fall in love and marry her she falls flat on both her a** as well as face. David you see is still in love and loyal to his dear departed wife Carol the very woman that Rachael murdered to be have him hook up with her.***SPOILERS*** David now realizing that he has a nut-Rachael-on his hands fires her just to keep her out of his hair which is a lot for a man his-in his middle 40's- age as well as life but it backfires badly on him. Rachael not taking the hint, that David doesn't love her, feel that being fired will make things much easier for him to marry her by her just being a stranger not an employee of his: You go figure that one out! This insanity on Rachael's part came to a bitter end with her crashing a party that David is throwing for his employees and gunning down but not killing his new assistant Mary-Beth, Sophie Gendron, in the wild free for all. Rachael convicted of murder not just of Carol but her live in roommate Nora, Deborah Pollitt, who was about to expose her wild fantasies to both the police as well as David. That as well as assault with intent to kill Rachael will have lots of time behind bars to reflect on the insanities that she had inflicted on those around her.
joanneg4-621-370690 I have already commented on this film at great lengths- The perfect assistant- and it was never printed on your comments page, and I followed all the required rules -------- so don 't waste my time. Why 10 lines? I saw this film several times, it is a good film, but it had too many loopholes, parts of the plot of the story made no sense at all- for instance , how on earth can a woman walk into a hospital, kill someone and walk out without anyone seeing her. And David Wescott must have been a very STUPID man to say the least, as he failed to see how deeply in love his assistant was with him- then he takes her to NY on a business, trip, plies her with champagne sweet words of praise plus a gift of a watch, overwhelmed she gives him a big hug an kiss on the mouth, he turns on her immediately, won't accept an apology or explanation from her- oh come on. - MEN!!!
evening1 Secretary Rachel Partson will do anything for her boss, but it's her obsessive infatuation that truly controls her. This pretty-good LMN movie serves as a cautionary tale on the dangers of bending workplace boundaries. Married PR-firm exec David Westcott entrusts his assistant with the keys to his home and allows her to babysit his daughter. Little does he realize she's misread this familiarity and believes he's in love.The performances here are excellent. Josie Davis is convincingly icy as the psychopathic amanuensis. Her boss is played well by Chris Potter, who doesn't seem to realize how handsome and desirable he is until he's ambushed by a passionate kiss. My main objection to this film is that Rachel is made a killer. She's interesting enough psychologically to carry this film without resorting to homicide. Murder isn't commonplace in real life. Why must it be in film?
fredtwenty4 I chose an 8 rating out of ten even though I enjoyed the movie intensely because the lead male character did not do as I would have done and "go for it", the young and smoking sexy hot and very beautiful Executive Assistant. He chose instead to remain monogamous to his very deceased wife. Bearing in mind that no one knew Rachel assisted her boss's wife on her way "out the door" so to speak. I literally found myself rooting for her to "get her man". "Why?" you ask. Because there is nothing sexier than a woman who will do "whatever it takes" to get her man and will do "anything and everything" to please him and keep him pleased. Yes, she is a closet nut case. But that's okay because she's crazy about him/me. Which means I do not have to worry about her fidelity and loyalty to me because she's out of her mind crazy about me. She would never allow another man in her bed or betray my love to her nor let another woman move in on her territory because as she so aptly said in the movie "She can't live without me." And her actions backed up her words. Josie Davis executed her seductive role so well I could literally taste her sweet and succulent womanhood in my mouth. I wanted her sooooo bad. The way I saw it she was seducing me. Which is why through out the movie I could not fathom why David could not figure out she wanted him, and when he finally did realize it how on earth could he resist her charms, her beauty, her passionate desires. Rachel would surely give him a night he would not soon forget. And he would definitely know beyond doubt that she belonged to him, only him, and no other man could swoop in and take her away from him because she was crazy beyond reason about him. He has all the power, because she would do whatever he asked/directed/told her to do. She was already primed to succumb to his will at work, and would do anything to keep him once she got him. I would surely have maximized the benefits to that truth about Rachel both in and out of bed. Knowing I could never sleep with another woman again because Rachel would surely put her, and possibly me, in a permanent sleep (a by-product of insane obsession). I also rated the movie an 8 because I did not feel it perpetuated reality. If the events of this movie happened in real life he would give way to her advances and she would surely rock his world in ways he had never dreamed possible. Now who's hooked on who? I would have loved to see an R-rated version of this movie.

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