Jersey Girl (2004 film)
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| Directed by | Kevin Smith |
| Produced by | Scott Mosier |
| Written by | Kevin Smith |
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| Music by | James L. Venable |
| Cinematography | Vilmos Zsigmond |
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| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $35 million |
| Box office | $36.1 million |
Jersey Girl is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written, co-edited and directed by Kevin Smith. It stars Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Raquel Castro, George Carlin, Stephen Root, Mike Starr and Raquel Castro. It was the second film where Affleck and Tyler played a couple, following 1998's Armageddon. The film follows a man who must take care of his precocious daughter in the midst of a tragedy.
It was the first film written and directed by Smith not to be set in the View Askewniverse as well as the first not to feature appearances by Jay and Silent Bob, although animated versions of them appear in the View Askew logo. At $35 million, it was Smith's biggest-budgeted project but went on to become a box office bomb, grossing just $36 million.
Ollie Trinké (Ben Affleck) is a powerful media publicist in New York City whose wife, Gertie (Jennifer Lopez), dies during childbirth with an aneurysm. To avoid his grief, he buries himself in his work and ignores his new daughter, Gertie, while his father, Bart (George Carlin), takes a month off from work to care for her, but returns so that Ollie is forced to live up to his responsibility as a parent. Under the stress of a botched diaper change and a baby who will not stop crying, he trashes his client, Will Smith, for his soon-to-be released film, Independence Day, in front of assembled reporters. That costs him his job, so he moves in with Bart in New Jersey. He eventually apologizes for ignoring Gertie, and attributes his public outburst to his grief.
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