ROB LOWE AND ANNA FRIEL STAR IN "PERFECT STRANGERS," A ROMANTIC NEW TELEVISION MOVIE, TO BE BROADCAST SUNDAY, OCT. 17 ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK

Khandi Alexander ("CSI: Miami") Also Stars

PERFECT STRANGERS stars Rob Lowe (" dr. vegas," "The West Wing") and Anna Friel ("Timeline") in a new television movie to be broadcast as the "CBS Sunday Movie," Sunday, Oct. 17 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The romantic comedy is about a high-powered New York advertising executive and a junior ad rep in London who switch lives for a month and learn that they have more in common than they imagined. Khandi Alexander ("CSI: Miami") also stars.

Lloyd Rockwell (Lowe) is a star at his agency and newly engaged to a beautiful society girl when he is asked by his boss to work in the firm's London office in preparation to make partner. Susie Wilding, (Friel) a terminally single junior ad rep, is offered the opportunity to work in the New York office, a change that her boss feels will help heal her broken heart. A condition of the exchange is that Lloyd and Susie swap apartments as well. Lloyd lives in a white, minimalist, ultra-modern Manhattan apartment that couldn't be more different than Susie's kitschy, colorful old English cottage cramped with furniture and cluttered with pets.

Things get off to a terrible start when Susie takes some questionable career advice from Lloyd that almost causes her to lose one of the company's principal accounts, and Lloyd is accused of giving away proprietary client information to the competition. On the verge of losing his career and his fianc�e, Lloyd realizes that Susie may be the only one who can save his job, if only he can convince her, from across the Atlantic, that he's not the arrogant, underhanded jerk she's come to believe he is.

Alexander plays Christie Kaplan, a vice president based at the agency's New York office who takes on a mentoring role to Susie.

Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award-nominated Rob Lowe stars in CBS's new drama "dr. vegas." His other television credits include "The Lyon's Den" and "The West Wing," for which he was nominated for an Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Awards. Lowe made his feature film debut in "The Outsiders." His other feature film credits include "Class," "The Hotel New Hampshire," "Oxford Blues," "Youngblood," "St. Elmo's Fire," "About Last Night," "Masquerade," "Bad Influence," "Wayne's World," "Mulholland Falls," "Contact" and "Square Dance," for which he received a Golden Globe nomination.

British-born Anna Friel most recently starred in the television series "The Jury." Her other television credits include "Fields of Gold" and "Watermelon." Her feature film credits include "The Land Girls," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Rogue Trader," "Sunset Strip," "The War Bride," "Me Without You," "An Everlasting Piece" and "Timeline."

Khandi Alexander is best known to television audiences for her role as Alexx Woods on "CSI: Miami," on the Network. She has also starred in the mini-series "The Corner" and the series "NewsRadio," and had a recurring role on "ER." Among her many other television credits are guest appearances on "Law & Order: SVU," "NYPD Blue" and "La Femme Nikita." Her feature film credits include "Dark Blue," "There's Something About Mary," "Sugar Hill," "Menace II Society" and "Emmett's Mark." On stage, she has appeared on Broadway in "Dreamgirls," Bob Fosse's "Dancin'," and "Chicago." She has also served as choreographer for such productions as the 1992 American Music Awards and Whitney Houston's world tours from 1989 to 1992.

PERFECT STRANGERS is a Working Title Production. Simon Wright ("Double Bill") and Analisa Barreto ("Last of the Blonde Bombshells") are the executive producers; Robin Sheppard ("Beautiful Creatures," "Menace") directed the movie from a script by Simon Booker ("The Blind Date") based on the book by the same name by Robyn Sisman.

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