After an unfaithful fiancé moves out, a young New Yorker (Bridget Fonda) advertises for a roommate to help with expenses. She gets more than she bargained for when the "perfect roommate" (Jennifer Jason Leigh) moves in and develops a dangerous obsession with her, taking over her clothes, her boyfriend, and her identity, in this tense psychological drama from Barbet Schroeder.
New York Times, 08/14/1992, p.C8, "...Smooth, entertaining and believably sophisticated....Both actresses are exceptionally good..."
USA Today, 08/14/1992, p.4D, "...Barbet Schroeder's direction and two exceptional leads make FEMALE the best of the bunch..." -- 3 out of 4 stars
Chicago Sun-Times, 08/14/1992, p.43, "...[Schroeder] has a mordant humor that pushes the material over the top....Both Fonda and Leigh pull out all the stops in their performances..."
Entertainment Weekly, 08/14/1993, p.34-6, "...Clever....The cat-and-mouse structure remains fun....[Leigh] offers the most convincing portrayal of a psychotic in recent films..."
Los Angeles Times, 08/14/1992, p.F1, "...Fonda has the rare ability to be simultaneously tough-minded and vulnerable, almost yearningly so..."
Title Note
Theatrical release: August 1992.
Filmed in New York City.
Allison's apartment building is the Ansonia, almost 100 years old and located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Due to contract restrictions, Milena Canonero is credited only as the production designer for SINGLE WHITE FEMALE, although she also served as costume designer and hairstylist on the film.
Release Note
DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Widescreen Additional Release Material: Trailers - Theatrical Trailer Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selections
Product Notes
Traumatized by the discovery that her live-in fiancé has cheated on her with his ex-wife, Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda) decides to find a roommate to share her apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. After interviewing candidates, beautiful, sophisticated career woman Allison settles on Hedra Carlson (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a shy, mousy woman who has a hopeless fashion sense, and seemingly, a heart of gold. At first she's an ideal roommate, asking Allison for advice and attempting to emulate her cosmopolitan style. But Hedy's adulation grows more and more disturbing as Allison realizes that her new roommate has a dark side. Barbet Schroeder (BARFLY, REVERSAL OF FORTUNE) directed this taut psychological thriller. Jason Leigh is mesmerizing as the disturbed Hedy; Fonda is well cast as the unwitting victim of another's psychosis.
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