Jersey Girl (2004)
Directed by Kevin Smith
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.
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And while their flops are few, they are at least noteworthy in their awfulness: Linklater's remake of The Bad News Bears was an idea that should have been abandoned at the conceptual stage, and Smith is still trying to live down 2004's Jersey Girl, a flubbery romantic vehicle for chum Ben Affleck.
Paulie Litt (2004's " Jersey Girl ") is precocious without being annoying as younger brother Spritle.
Writer/editor/director Kevin Smith ("Clerks," "Jersey Girl") tries to latch onto the current Judd Apatow phenom by mixing his regulars with the Apatow troupe (and a couple of porn industry vets) and his instincts pay off - in casting.
In making only his second feature outside of the View Askew universe, writer-director Kevin Smith (2006's " Clerks II ") sticks with what he knows and has come up with something at least better than 2004's " Jersey Girl ."
Meanwhile, behind the camera, Smith goes through the paces efficiently enough; in fact, on a purely technical level, this is his most assured piece of direction since the much-maligned Jersey Girl.
Both Chasing Amy and Jersey Girl centered on the universal connections between people and how we all fumble and fail while making them.
Smith, for all his dirty jokes, is a genuine romantic -- but his two genuine romances, "Jersey Girl" and "Chasing Amy," starred Ben Affleck.
A cult figure among the Adult Swim crowd, Smith has always been better at the foulmouthed and frankly sophomoric (Clerks, Mallrats) than the wistful and sincere (Chasing Amy, Jersey Girl).