Picture Perfect (1997)
She was prepared for anything until love stormed in.
Genre : Romance, Comedy
Runtime : 1H 45M
Director : Glenn Gordon Caron
Writer : Arleen Sorkin, Paul Slansky, Glenn Gordon Caron
Synopsis
A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
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