Jersey Girl (2004)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2004
	Director: Kevin Smith (Clerks 1&2, Dogma, Red State)
	Actors: Ben Affleck (Paycheck, Pearl Harbor), Liv Tyler (Armageddon, The Lord of the Rings 1-3), Raquel Castro, Jason Biggs (American Pie), George Carlin (Dogma)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 29.06.2014, HD VOD, Home cinema
Synopsis: Ollie Trinke (Affleck), a sucessful publicist, will lose everything and learn to be a father.
Review: In what I have recently read about Kevin Smith and during his show Too Fat for 40, it is often made allusion to Jersey Girl, and it is always made fun of it. I thought it was because it is a bad movie, but not at all. I found it to be a very good and emotional mix of Drama, Comedy and Romance. Most of all it is the very touching story of a father giving up his former life to raise his little girl. Probably Jersey Girl is made fun of because it was the first movie by Kevin Smith which does not take place in the ViewAskewniverse as it is called, i.e. this universe in which you meet Jay and Silent Bob, Dante, Randal, etc... and in which people talk always about Star Wars, movies, and getting laid. Well, you get a little of classic Kevin Smith in Jersey Girl, some allusions, references, and the mandatory scenes in a Video Store, making this place a must-be in any good American's life. So it is far from what the fans expected and they got dissapointed. It was not the case for me. It did surprise me (I didn't expect such a Romance knowing the guy) but pleasantly. My only critic would be that the music is sometimes too present and too loud, like I felt already in Cop Out. Writing this movie to direct it in 2004 is obviously linked to the birth of Kevin Smith's daughter Harley Quinn in 1999, and he expressed his feelings the best way he know how to do: by making a movie about it.
Rating: 7 /10