Synopsis
When Jen Marshall, an LA girl with a reckless personality and a laundry list of burned bridges, 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.
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Cast
- Piper PeraboJen
- Heather BurnsRamona
- Mark DobiesVince
- Aunjanue Ellis-TaylorVera
- Carolina HoyosThe Nurse
- Mary Beth HurtDorothy
- Seth MeyersSteven
- Kate MulgrewMary
- Ajay NaiduKamal
- 30
Village Voice
This should be funny or sad, but it's neither, in this incoherent cross between "Riding the Bus With My Sister" and a Christina Ricci vehicle. - 25
New York Post
Schwartz throws in so many characters and implausible subplots - none worth mentioning - that Perception sinks under its own weight. - 10
The New York Times
As the jaundiced, disjointed, drug-infested story heads toward its dismal conclusion, its reputable actors vainly struggle to infuse the goings-on with a deadpan psychotic zaniness. But even when viewed sideways, Perception is not funny; it's hardly anything at all. - 0
New York Daily News
An early and daunting contender for worst movie of the year, writer-director Irving Schwartz's amateurish melodrama stars a hollow-eyed Piper Perabo as a self-loathing young woman who has every reason to hate herself.