Rotten
The script stoops to cheap gags that undercut Affleck's efforts to sustain a believable character.
Joe Leydon, Variety
Jersey Girl
He wanted it all...but he got more than he bargained for.
2004 · 1h 42m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Kevin Smith
Overview
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his father. To bounce back, it takes a new love and the courage instilled in him by his daughter.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
42%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The grating sense of commercial calculation in Jersey Girl consistently undercuts Smith's fine writing.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Inspired by Smith's own awe and amazement at being a father, the movie is modest and entertaining, with a minimum of sentimental goo, and it demands little of us except a good-natured willingness to go with it.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Rotten
The filmmaker drowns his trademark edgy stew of smutty humor, stiff acting and dime-store insight into human nature with a gravy of glutinous bathos, making for a singularly unpalatable dish.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Rotten
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.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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