Single White Female (1992)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Aug 14, 1992

Running Time: 107 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman, Stephen Tobolowsky, Frances Bay, Michele Farr, Tara Karsian, Christiana Capetillo, Jessica Lundy

director: Barbet Schroeder

An attractive, successful woman living in New York City breaks up with her boyfriend and decides to ease her recovery by getting a new roommate. The young woman who moves in changes slowly from normal and supportive to psychotic and dangerous, while also physically transforming herself to appear more and more like her roommate.

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Single White Female

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While dowdy Hedra Carlson (Jennifer Jason Leigh) takes over the life of pretty Allie Jones (Bridget Fonda), director Barbet Schroeder indulges the urge to merge with Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo), Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby) and Ingmar Bergman (Persona). But Schroeder's Sir Mix-a-Lot approach to moviemaking smacks less of art than commerce. Selling cheap thrills with pop psychology may earn him a date-night hit, but what a comedown. Schroeder proved incisively…