Jersey Girl

MPAA Rating

PG-13

Theatrical Release Date

Mar 25, 2004

Genre(s)

• Kevin Smith
• Comedy
• Drama
• 4-for-3 Comedy
• 4-for-3 Drama

Rating (Stars)

Description

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

Director

Kevin Smith

Stars

• Betty Aberlin
• Matt McFarland
• Sarah Stafford
• Paul Litowsky
• Christian Fan

Running Time

102 minutes

Original Price

$9.99

Current Value

$1.36

DVD Features

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen
• NTSC
• 1.85:1