Synopsis
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek out a roommate in order to keep her spacious digs.
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Cast
- Bridget FondaAllison 'Allie' Jones
- Jennifer Jason LeighHedra 'Hedy' Carlson
- Steven WeberSam Rawson
- Peter FriedmanGraham Knox
- Stephen TobolowskyMitch Myerson
- Frances BayElderly Neighbor
- Tara KarsianMannish Applicant
- Christiana CapetilloExotic Applicant
- Jessica LundyTalkative Applicant
- Renée EstevezPerfect Applicant
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
This is a story which, in other hands, could have simply been an all-female slasher movie, but Barbet Schroeder, who produced and directed it, has a mordant humor that pushes the material over the top. It is a slasher movie, and a little more. - 75
Washington Post
Schroeder's refusal to choose moral sides gives the psychological confrontation between the women the kind of weird, mutually accepted form of diseased codependency that Claus and Sunny von Bulow shared in his previous film, Reversal of Fortune. In Single White Female, Schroeder leaves the subtext unresolved, but manages to strike a very raw nerve. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
A clever, by-the-numbers gothic thriller. Single White Female is entertaining claptrap. - 70
The New York Times
Single White Female is Mr. Schroeder's bid to compete in the mass market, and there's no reason he shouldn't succeed. The film is smooth, entertaining and believably sophisticated. It has far more sound psychological underpinnings than other movies of its type. - 70
Washington Post
Even though Single White Female is more second-rate, knife-stabbing psycho drivel, it's no pain to sit through. It looks great, for one thing. It has two fabulous faces -- Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It's also funny, sexy, suspenseful and, yes, utterly stupid. - 60
Empire
Fluffy thriller, with moments of unintentional humour. - 60
Variety
Despite excellent lead performances and numerous memorable scenes, this still feels like two different movies in one. - 50
Rolling Stone
Don Roos's script for Single White Female, from the 1990 potboiler SWF Seeks Same, by John Lutz, is as empty as a hack's head. Schroeder goes through the motions — the movie is elegantly made — but this synthetic Hollywood package panders shamelessly to the baser instincts.
