A Perfect Pairing

A Perfect Pairing

To land a major client, an LA wine exec travels to an Australian sheep station, where she signs on as a ranch hand and hits it off with a rugged local.

  • Released: 2022-05-19
  • Runtime: 101 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Romance
  • Stars: Victoria Justice, Adam Demos, Luca Sardelis, Craig Horner, Lucy Durack, Alex Neal, Veronica Neave, Joel Spreadborough, Emma Randall, Tracie Filmer, Samantha Cain, Antonio Álvarez, Emily Havea, Natalie Abbott, Jayden Popik, Callan Knight, Nicholas Brown, Charles Allen, Liam Olsen, Annaliese McGuire, Kerri Simpson, Paisley Harrington, Alana Andrews, Richard Macgregor, Robert Allan, Brett Murphy, Ebony Taylor, Ashton Baumann
  • Director: Stuart McDonald
 Comments
  • aeszeki - 21 December 2022
    Forced, awkward, avoid
    I like wine. I despise wine snobs. The main character is definitely a wine snob. She is unlikeable, and not just because of that. Her single good moment is when she quits her job.

    Here are a few annoyances, in chronological order...

    The forced "best friend" betrayal. There is no way, given their relationship, that somebody would do that. How stupid/naive do you have to be to trust someone like that? Isn't she supposed to be a "capable" and "smart" professional?! The fact that she ends up ignoring this betrayal and makes the traitor a partner (the only partner) in the new business, is unbelievable.

    She is perseverant, selfish and annoying. Kind of like a mosquito. This is not something that changes by the end but, of course, everybody finds that adorable. An adorable mosquito.

    She insists to be hired in a job without even asking what it is. So you assume that she has some hidden talents. She doesn't. Other than naming a sheep and randomly (and magically) fixing the boiler, I can't see any contribution. It doesn't matter though. In spite of her clumsiness, uselessness, unpleasantness and arrogance they want her to stay.

    The workers on the farm seem OK. They try to make her part of the team. They go out for drinks to celebrate somebody and ask her to join. After being begged, repeatedly, she goes with them. As if she was doing them a huge favour. She reminds them that she usually drinks wine. Like all this is beneath her.

    I will stop, but there is more. Other reviewers have covered some of the rest.

    Avoid.
  • yusufpiskin - 15 July 2022
    Really?
    Hugo Boss model type men and women working in the fields.

    In 2022, the story of telling stories through people like Greek gods and goddesses is still not over.

    And Netflix does just that... The 4k version of the "white Americans' American dream" movies I watched in my childhood. Besides, the story takes place in Australia, and it's still a white American story. I really congratulate you.