Perfect Stranger (2007)

Journalist Rowena Price (Halle Berry) is hellbent on avenging the murder of Grace (Nicki Aycox), a childhood friend. Posing as a temp worker, Rowena gets a job in the office of Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis), a wealthy and cunning businessman, who Rowena thinks murdered Grace because he wanted to silence their affair. Hill can't afford for his wife Mia (Paula Miranda) to find out about the affair as Mia holds all the money in the business her father built. With the help of her computer geek friend Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi), Rowena sets about to investigate Hill and get the goods on him.

But can it be as simple as that? And what really are Rowena's motives?

Also appearing are Richard Portnow, Gary Dourdan, Patti D'Arbanville, Clea Lewis, Tamara Feldman, Heidi Klumm, and Michael Tolan.

Directed by James Foley.

Run time: 1 hour, 49 minutes

Rated R for sexual content, nudity, some disturbing violent images and language.

My personal rating: B-

Blow Dry (2001)

"Mum! Dad's cutting!"

Once upon a time . . . hairdressers Phil (Alan Rickman) and Shelley (Natasha Richardson) Allen and their hair model Sandra (Rachel Griffiths) battled it out at hair design competitions. But that was long ago and ended when the marriage and their business broke up because Shelley and Sandra became romantically involved.

Now Shelley runs her styling shop with Sandra and Phil runs his barber shop with their son Brian (Josh Hartnett) in the same small English town of Keighley. Shelley and Phil haven't spoken to each other for 10 years, since the breakup, and Shelley has just discovered that her cancer has metastisized.

When Keighley wins the bid to host the spectacular annual British Hairdressing Championship, Phil's old nemesis Ray Robertson (the delightfully evil Bill Nighy) comes to town and baits Phil to drop the barber shears and return to styling for one last time in this competition to prove which one of them is really the best.
Phil resists but Brian urges him to give it a go if Phil can put together a team of stylists and their own hair model.

Can Shelley and Phil drop their distance and come together for their son? Will Sandra resume her part of the team as the hair model? Will Brian escalate his childhood crush on Ray Robertson's daughter Christina (Rachael Leigh Cook)?

Wild times ensue and one wonders if they can pull it off despite the challenges in this charming comedy about love and family and acceptence directed by Paddy Breathnach.

Model Heidi Klumm appears as a hair model. Also appearing are Rosemary Harris and Hugh Bonneville.

Rated R for some language and brief nudity.