The Perfect Assistant

I love Josie Davis. Great actress and movie. Thanks.

we were watching the perfect assistant tonight and the signal got lost when it was half way,how can we watch it again?

it gonna be on sooon can't wate. it sounds really good

Hey, wasn't this supposed to come on Jan. 20th? Now it's not even on the schedule. What happened?

this was supposed to show tonight. please let me know when it will be on again. thanks!

when is this coming on again?

Hey, I thought this was going to re-run on Jan 20th, why is it off the schedule now??

The characterization of Rachel was so broad and without nuance that a 12-year-old viewer would have known she was nuts in the first five to seven minutes. That leaves viewers with I.Q.’s higher than room temperature nothing but the impatient task of waiting for those around her to wise up. There seems to be a hint that the suspicious case of encephalitis contracted by her boss’s wife ( ‘David,’ not Paul as it reads in the capsule description) may have somehow been at Rachel’s hands. In any case, it is Rachel that ends up killing the woman, as well poisoning David’s business partner. And incidentally, I don’t know how anyone sees Rachel as a victim – no one at that job seems to abuse her or harass her, nor does she seem to have such a burdensome load of tasks to even cause her a little perspiration. Further, that spacious and nicely appointed three-story townhouse Rachel shares with her cousin, as well as that nice car she drives, ain’t exactly coming off poverty wages. Nor do her closets look bare. David is grateful for her extra help, but doesn’t ask or demand it, and indeed wouldn’t NEED it if the woman hadn’t murdered his wife!

At several points in the film, Rachel is seen almost compulsively using a hand sanitizer on her desk, fostering my hope that Chris Potter’s character ( David ) would catch on earlier and settle scores by arranging for the (suggested) germ-phobic Rachel to cross paths with some very nasty bacteria herself. It wasn’t to be, and we got a plain old gun ending. I’ll watch Chris Potter in ANYTHING and he’s the entire reason I tuned in, but I’m tired of seeing the characters he plays victimized. In Queer As Folk he played a 40-year-old ( another David) in love with a 30-year-old ( Michael ) whose still nursing a 15-year unrequited crush on his closest boyhood friend (Brian). In Special Victims Unit’s “Manipulated” episode he was a guilt-ridden, caretaking husband of a wheelchair-bound but vengeful wife played by Rebecca DeMornay, who sets him up to take the fall for two murders she arranged for hire. And now, here in “Perfect Assistant,” again Potter is playing a successful and functional executive, who is nevertheless the clueless, prize prey of an obvious basket case. Enough already.

The characterization of Rachel was so broad and without nuance that a 12-year-viewer would have known she was nuts in the first five to seven minutes. That leaves viewers with I.Q.’s higher than room temperature nothing but the impatient task of waiting for those around her to wise up. There seems to be a hint that the suspicious case of encephalitis contracted by her boss’s wife ( ‘David,’ not Paul as it reads in the capsule description) may have somehow been at Rachel’s hands. In any case, it is Rachel that ends up killing the woman, as well poisoning David’s business partner. And incidentally, I don’t know how anyone sees Rachel as a victim – no one at that job seems to abuse her or harass her, nor does she seem to have such a burdensome load of tasks to even cause her a little perspiration. David is grateful for her extra help, but doesn’t ask or demand it, and indeed wouldn’t NEED it if the woman hadn’t murdered his wife!

At several points in the film, Rachel is seen almost compulsively using a hand sanitizer on her desk, fostering my hope that Chris Potter’s character ( David ) would catch on earlier and settle scores by arranging for the (suggested) germ-phobic Rachel to cross paths with some very nasty bacteria herself. It wasn’t to be, and we got a plain old gun ending. I’ll watch Chris Potter in ANYTHING and he’s the entire reason I tuned in, but I’m tired of seeing the characters he plays victimized. In Queer As Folk he played a 40-year-old ( another David) in love with a 30-year-old ( Michael ) whose still nursing a 15-year unrequited crush on his closest boyhood friend (Brian). In Special Victims Unit’s “Manipulated” episode he was a guilt-ridden, caretaking husband of a wheelchair-bound but vengeful wife played by Rebecca DeMornay, who sets him up to take the fall for two murders she arranged for hire. And now, here in “Perfect Assistant,” again Potter is playing a successful and functional executive, who is nevertheless the clueless, prize prey of an obvious basket case. Enough already.

I would like to see this movie agian....when will it air again?

have a question?
I missed starting,what happened to Rachel as a child? and why was her cousin,Nora always on her 'case"? Also, did Nora live or die? they kind of glossed over it and never said what had happened to her? Did Rachel have a history of being 'obsessed ' over her boss? Kinda makes me glad I don't wrok or have a job.

This was a good movie. Josie Davis' acting saved it. Another actress could have taken it into cheeseball territory.

Rachel wasn't used, Rachel was crazy!

I would like to know when this movie will be on again, I missed it last night.

When will this movie be on again? I only got to see a part of it last night (1/2/08), but from what I saw, I really liked it. I'd really like to see the whole thing in its entirety.

What about her cousin? Did she die? That was just "rushed" over.....

I thought the acting (especially Rachel's character) was horrendous.

I can sympathesize with Rachel in the sense that she was used by her boss and her colleagues. Of course, it doesn't give one the right to kill.

Just goes to show not to take your job too seriously and never fall in love with the boss.

With today's downsizing and rash firings of employees, you can see why people go off in the workplace.

There are the users in the world and the powerless employees.