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List Price: $7.99 | | Label: Miramax
Salesrank: 8887
Released: September 7, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Hollywood favorites Ben Affleck (DAREDEVIL, PAYCHECK, THE SUM OF ALL FEARS) and Liv Tyler (LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, ARMAGEDDON) shine in this heartwarming all-star comedy about a guy who thinks he's lost it all only to discover he's got everything he needs! Ollie (Affleck) is a smooth and successful big-city publicist who has the life he's always wanted -- until things take an unexpected turn and he finds himself an unemployed single father back living with his dad in the suburbs. But just when he thinks his life has hit rock bottom, a sexy, no-nonsense video store clerk (Tyler) enters his life and shows Ollie that sometimes you have to forget who you thought you were and acknowledge what really makes you happy. Also starring Jason Biggs (AMERICAN PIE) -- director Kevin Smith (JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK) has delivered another hit critics are calling one of the year's funniest!
Description of Jersey Girl:
Jersey Girl stars Ben Affleck as a workaholic music executive who loses his wife (Jennifer Lopez) in childbirth and has to raise his newborn daughter with the help of his crotchety New Jersey dad (George Carlin). The movie unspools as if writer-director Kevin Smith, normally a highly self-aware filmmaker (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma), set out to put a fresh spin on every cliché he could imagine (parent forced to choose between child and career; parent rushing to attend school performance; etc.)--then forgot to put in the spin. The scenes that aren't lifeless are implausible (Liv Tyler plays the fantasy girl of every awkward boy's dreams). The only real feeling comes from the strong soundtrack. However, Raquel Castro, as the daughter, is an uncanny double for Lopez; when the light plays across Castro's cheekbones just so, you'd swear the casting director simply shrunk Lopez for convenience. --Bret Fetzer
Jersey Girl Reviews:
Jersey Girl 
2009-07-06 - Thought it was a good family movie. Would recommend
it to others. Really a warm friendly show.
Not half bad tearjerker 
2009-04-05 - True, this features Bennifer at the start, at what must have been the end of their relationship. It's also got one of the last appearances by the late George Carlin, and, of course, Liv Tyler is always smashing. She even lisps her way through some "Elv-ish" in one of the extras. The plot is man-rediscovers-what-is-really-important-in-life. Naturally, that means a cute kid, a grumpy dad and an understanding girlfriend. This could have been made in the 50s. But it's really ok. I'd watch it if I were you.
Not bad . . ,
2009-01-15 - Actually I liked Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler together. And I thought the movie was nice actually - I just couldn't stand the little girl that played the daughter. Just too precocious and a bit over acting done here (the scene where her Dad shows up for the play - the camera shot on her face, please!). And speaking of plays - come one! Sweeney Todd (yeah, right) at a school play, complete with elaborate stage set??!! and costumes?
Sorry, just found the daughter too irritating (much like her mother:)
great comedy hybrid
2008-12-14 - I felt like this movie captured a wide range of emotions very well and still maintained very smooth scene transitions. The story was unique, the directing was in-tuned, and the acting was some of the best we've seen from Affleck, Tyler, and Carlin, but the real talent in this movie is most clearly Raquel Castro as little Gertie Trinke. She gives a flawless performance and shows she is in the elite league of actresses at her young age. The entire cast really melded together beautifully with each still maintaining their individually complex roles this is undoubtly due to Kevin Smith who writes and directs Jersey Girl to its full emotional potential.
Jersey Girl
2008-09-17 - Excellent,and
heart warming
and very moving,actor
George Carlin
plays(grandpa) and his son gets curve balls thrown at him lots in begining
but they keep on coming throughout the movie,
Liv tylor adds a comical twist towards end but J Lo does her thing in begining.
