Jersey Girl (2004)

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Studio: Miramax Films
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Mar 26, 2004
Running Time: 103 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Ollie Trinke is a smooth and successful Manhattan music publicist who seems to have it all. When his perfect life is suddenly tragically upended--leaving him as a single father unqualified for the role--he snaps. Before long Ollie's big city life is a memory. Out of a job and out of luck, he reluctantly moves in with his father back home to New Jersey where he was raised. It is the lowest point in his life. Just ask him. The years pass and with them Ollie's plans for his future. Stuck in an unexciting, deadend job, he sees no way out and no way back to the life he used to love. But he adores his young daughter Gertie, and she loves their life in the 'burbs. To her, Jersey is paradise. While renting Gertie's favorite movie for the zillionth time one day, Ollie meets Maya, who challenges his priorities and perspective. He begins to realize that sometimes you have to forget about who you thought you were, accept who you are and acknowledge what makes you happy.
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Ollie Trinke
Maya
Bart Trinke
Greenie
Block
Gertie Trinke
Arthur Brickman
Gertrude Steiney
PR Exec #1
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rating March 23, 2004
Kevin Smith (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) has brought so much scrappy wit to movies that you can almost forgive this treacly tale of Big Apple music publicist Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck), whose wife (Jennifer Lopez -- no cracks, please) dies in childbirth. Now Ollie lives in New Jersey with his widowed dad (George Carlin), who helps him raise his eight-year-old daughter, Gertie (cutie-pie Raquel Castro). Tears are jerked as Ollie finds love with a video clerk (Liv Tyler). But Smith… Continued
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Director Kevin Smith, who accrued a loyal fan following with his indie hits Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma, turns sentimental with this mainstream feature that may prove too sappy for even the most hardcore romantic comedy loyalists.

Story

Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck) is a young New York music publicist on the fast track to fame and success, but his ideal life gets ransacked when his dearly beloved wife Gertrude (Jennifer Lopez) dies giving birth to their daughter (Raquel Castro). Now a… Continued