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Dominican Rep. Jersey Girl
12,395
Romance. Comedy
Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck) 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 (George Carlin) back home to the New Jersey suburb where he was raised. It is the lowest point ... [+]
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"Liv Tyler is a very particular talent who has sometimes been misused by directors more in love with her beauty than with her appropriateness for their story. Here she is perfectly cast." | POS |
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"Its dramatic situations ring consistently false, and the story is phony as anything off the Hollywood assembly line. And yet, it's sincere phony." | NEU |
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United States |
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"A warm, funny, earnest movie" | POS |
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United States |
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"A lackluster melodrama with only a few inspired moments" | NEU |
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United States |
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"Smith stumbles setting up dramatic confrontations and strains credibility a time or two with implausible moments." | NEU |
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United States |
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"A bland slab of sentimental hokum that proves even the most smart-alecky of indie auteurs can turn warm and fuzzy on occasion." | NEG |
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"Affleck is modest and engaging, which keeps the movie out of "Gigli" territory. But it's close" | NEU |
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"Combines absurd male fantasy and grating chick-flick cliche." | NEG |
United Kingdom |
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"The 'grown-up' Kevin Smith exhibits greater ambition, but he's not quite so much fun." | NEU |
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"This kind of weepy material works in the hands of melodrama masters like Douglas Sirk or Pedro Almodovar. But here, it's over-the-top and it's just horrible." | NEG |
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"Its heart is in the right place. Unfortunately, that heart is about the only element here that doesn't strain credibility." | NEU |
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"Kevin Smith has made a movie so false and blatantly icky that it's the film equivalent of making goo-goo noises and chucking a baby under the chin for 103 minutes." | NEG |
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