Jersey Girl (2004)

Directed by

Kevin Smith

Genre

comedy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy, melodrama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 1,161 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed man struggles to raise his young daughter after his wife dies in childbirth. He moves back to his hometown and eventually learns to balance his career with being a good parent.

tendersentimentallightheartedbittersweetwarmdomesticcharming

What happens

Jersey Girl is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written, co-edited and directed by Kevin Smith. It stars Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler with George Carlin (in his final live-action film appearance), Stephen Root, Mike Starr, Raquel Castro (in her film debut), Jason Biggs and Jennifer Lopez in supporting roles. The film follows a widowed man (Affleck) who must learn how to properly take care of his precocious daughter (Castro) after her mother (Lopez) dies during childbirth. It was the first film written and directed by Smith not set in the View Askewniverse as well as the first that did not feature appearances by Jay and Silent Bob, although animated versions of them appear in the View Askew logo. At $35 million, not including marketing costs, it was then Smith's biggest-budgeted film, and was a box office bomb, grossing just $36 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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