Halle Berry, not the warmest actress, is the putative heroine, Rowena Price, a star investigative reporter for a rag called The New York Courier. To the movie’s ruthless power brokers and climbers, the most precious human commodity is loyalty, the ability to keep a dirty secret under wraps. Although set in the corridors of New York media giants, it often feels like a Hollywood fever dream responding to the wave of scandals and cover-ups coming out of Washington. There is enough of a grain of truth in this noirish thriller, directed by James Foley from a screenplay by Todd Komarnicki, that even after it lurches from the far-fetched into the preposterous, “Perfect Stranger” leaves a clammy residue of unease. Every character is an unscrupulous go-getter with a cache of guilty secrets to protect.

Communication is carried on under assumed names in e-mail messages, instant messages and coded cellphone texts. Miles has figured this out as well, so Rowena kills him too.In the sleek, paranoid world of “Perfect Stranger,” the Internet and the ugly side of human nature converge to evoke a treacherous corporate climate of multiple identities, high-tech spying, obsessive prurience, blackmail and murder. Rowena wanted Grace dead since she witnessed Rowena and her mom bury Rowena's dad in their old house.

She knew that Harrison had access to the poison that was used on Grace and framed him. We then find out that Rowena, who's mentally ill since she was sexually abused by her father set-up everything. He's found guilty, since Grace's blood was found in his car. Rowena goes to the police with her information, and it is enough to get Harrison arrested and tried for Grace's murder. Harrison gets a whiff of Rowena's charade and thinks she's a spy from a rival company, violently accusing her. To get closer to him, Rowena temps at Harrison's office, and soon he flirts with her. Rowena and Miles want to look into it so they set Rowena up to get friendly with Harrison in one of the chatrooms he frequents. The next day, Grace is found poisoned and drowned in the river. One night, Rowena runs into an old friend Grace who tells her about a man she is dating, Harrison Hill, and how she's scared for her life. Rowena is a journalist and works with a good friend, Miles who is secretly obsessed with her. A woman with a hidden agenda becomes close to a powerful and mysterious CEO.

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