Product Description

Piper Perabo stars as Jen Marshall, an LA girl with a reckless personality and a laundry list of burned bridges. When Jen returns to New York and unexpected tragedy strikes, it is up to her mistreated friends to decide between helping her through this tough time or abandoning her - like she did them.

Starring Piper Perabo (The Prestige, Coyote Ugly), and featuring Mary Beth Hurt (Lady in the Water), Heather Burns (Miss Congeniality), Aunjanue Ellis (Freedomland, Ray); Seth Meyers (Saturday Night Live) and Nick Scotti (Kiss Me, Guido).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56971 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-02-28
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 102 minutes

Customer Reviews

Starts Nowhere and Continues on that Path
Irving Schwartz, lighten up! As writer and director of this strange little movie he seems to have a weird perception of the world himself. There is a limit to the punishingly sad story lines that can make it to film and this one clearly falls into that category.

Jen (Piper Perabo) is a funky, grossly outfitted bleach blond who has returned home from Los Angles to care for her emotionally disturbed parents (Mark Dobies and Mary Beth Hurt) but she seems to outdo any manifestation of their mental abnormalities. She is stuck in a meaningless relationship with a female animal activist (Heather Burns) and trying to stave off her ex-boyfriend (Seth Meyers) while walking among friends like Aunjanue Ellis, a druggie, Ajay Naidu, a Pakistani importer, and a cop Nick Scotti. She is struck by a truck and becomes paralyzed and seems to want to get a grip on her life, but her 'friends' don't go along. To say more would waste what little interest there is to glean from this tale.

Those who have followed Piper Perabo's career may be hoping that this starring role may offer her the chance for a jump-start. Sadly the script and atmosphere are so lacking that this film is probably one she will choose to not list on her resume. Grady Harp, September 06

Ker-plunk! A True Dud
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This film is really, really bad. Save your time and skip it. It is the story of a young woman from a mentally ill family who seems either very dysfunctional or mentally ill herself. She has a few relationships with people she treats very poorly. She experiences a life-changing event and decides to value her relationships, but it appears to be too late. The movie ends in a very ungratifying, depressing way, consistent with the general tenor of the movie.

The acting is poor, the plot skips all over the place, and several things make no sense at all. Worst of all, after watching it, I felt quite depressed, and I didn't beforehand.

Definitely not recommended.
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A dramatic movie following the troubled Jen when she moves back to New York City from Los Angeles
"Coyote Ugly" actress Piper Perabo stars as Jen Marshall in the DVD Perception, a dramatic movie following the troubled Jen when she moves back to New York City from Los Angeles. Her temperamental personality alienates those who try hardest to become close to her; yet after suffering a traumatic event she yearns to bring the very people she spurned back into her life. When is friendship too far gone to reclaim? Deceptive reality itself can be recipe for disaster in this taut and profound reflection on human isolation in the twenty-first century. 102 minutes, color.