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43% Tomatometer 176 Reviews 48% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck) is young and at the top of his game as a music promoter. He is both a workaholic and a silver-tongued expert at manipulating the press. At a company Christmas party, Ollie meets Gertrude Steiney (Jennifer Lopez), a book editor for a New York publishing house. They are instantly attracted to each other, and begin a whirlwind romance that changes the course of his personal and professional life. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Buy Now

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A surprisingly conventional romantic comedy from Kevin Smith, Jersey Girl is warm but often overly sentimental.

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Jersey Girl | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Nell Minow Common Sense Media Formulaic script and uneven tone. Disappointing. Rated: 2/5 Dec 24, 2010 Full Review Jersey Girl | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Joe Leydon Variety The script stoops to cheap gags that undercut Affleck's efforts to sustain a believable character. Jun 23, 2008 Full Review Jersey Girl | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Olly Richards Empire Magazine The 'grown-up' Kevin Smith exhibits greater ambition, but he's not quite so much fun. Rated: 2/5 Jun 18, 2004 Full Review Jersey Girl | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Cory Woodroof 615 Film I don’t know *what* was going on in the world in 2004, but Jersey Girl is just delightful. The big school review and George Carlin’s last scene with Affleck…*sniffles* I’m not crying, you’re crying. Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Jersey Girl | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com This film should have been much better than it is. Rated: 2.5/4.0 Sep 12, 2020 Full Review Jersey Girl | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens The result, a heartfelt, sweet and funny love letter to fatherhood. Nov 13, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Eye C There's something funny about this movie, this is my third time watching it, and the other two I forgot almost everything about it, but I think everytime that is a nice movie, moving and funny, with out been trashy as the View Askew is known for. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/04/24 Full Review Marie Louise W One of the most underrated movies ever. Probably just because it didn't land with the usual Kevin Smith lad audience but didn't reach many of the people who would really love it. I'm not someone who goes back and rewatched movies every often, but this is one of my go-tos. Huge character development, romance, fun, a musical number, great humour, superb crudeness and really sweet resolution, with sneakily hidden depth and a superb cast. Go watch it! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/04/23 Full Review StephenPaul C LOL, the funniest 01 hour: and 37 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez (whose character dies after giving birth to a baby girl)!!!!!!!!!!!! But in real life, they are married!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/23/23 Full Review Chris D Very enjoyable film something different from Kevin Smiths filmography Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Ethn H Unfairly maligned. It's not perfect, but I would say it is easily Kevin's most mature film, and has great performances. George Carlin is perfect. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member "Jersey Girl" is just a formulaic romantic comedy. However that does not mean the movie is bad. The performances are good for the most part. Being a huge fan of the late George Carlin, I think he did well in this movie as he has the other times he has worked with writer/director Kevin Smith. He gave the best performance in the movie. The performances are uniformly good. Not fantastic, but good. Raquel Castro did very well in her movie debut. With that being said, "Jersey Girl" suffers from a script that had no effort put into it and just follows the romantic comedy playbook. From the beginning it was obvious where the story would go. That is the reason why I cannot give "Jersey Girl" a higher rating. It is nothing we have not seen before in a romantic comedy. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Kevin Smith Director Ben Affleck Ollie Trinke Liv Tyler Maya George Carlin Bart Trinke Jason Biggs Arthur Brickman Raquel Castro Gertie Trinke
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Synopsis Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck) is young and at the top of his game as a music promoter. He is both a workaholic and a silver-tongued expert at manipulating the press. At a company Christmas party, Ollie meets Gertrude Steiney (Jennifer Lopez), a book editor for a New York publishing house. They are instantly attracted to each other, and begin a whirlwind romance that changes the course of his personal and professional life.

Director
Kevin Smith

Producer
Scott Mosier

Screenwriter
Kevin Smith

Distributor
Miramax Films

Production Co
View Askew Productions, Miramax

Rating
PG-13 (Language|Frank Dialogue|Sexual Content)

Genre
Romance, Comedy

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 26, 2004, Wide

Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 8, 2016

Box Office (Gross USA)
$25.3M

Runtime
1h 37m

Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS

Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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