Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Mar 13, 2002
Running Time: 96 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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After an optimistic but nightmarish dating spree, neurotic New York journalist Jessica Stein happens upon an intriguing personal ad whose only drawback is that it's in the 'women seeking women' section. On a daring whim, she decides to answer it and, to her surprise, ends up instantly clicking with downtown hipster Helen Cooper. The women proceed to muddle through an earnest courtship in which, with conventional gender roles absent, they are forced to make it up as they go along.
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After years of bad relationships with men, a guarded journalist and a outspoken museum curator decide to give lesbianism a try and start a relationship. It's a romantic comedy that mixes friendship with romantic love.

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Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) is a sensitive but entirely neurotic New Yorker, who doesn't really like her job as a newspaper copy editor, has trouble sleeping and is at her wits' end trying to find a man. Her Jewish mother (Tovah Feldshuh) is forever trying to fix her… Continued

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February 26, 2002
Kissing Jessica Stein asks the question: Can a straight Jewish girl named Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) find love in Manhattan with Helen Cooper (Heather Juergensen), a bohemian man-eater with an urge to go lesbo? You wouldn't think that setup would produce a smashing romantic comedy, but with apologies to all the gay groups the film is bound to offend, it does. Westfeldt and Juergensen, who developed the script from their 1997 play Lipschtick, twist female archetypes from Annie Hall to… Continued
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