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Summary: A beautiful movie
Review: At the end of the first hour you think, "Well, that's basically it. What can they do next? I guess it's all just filler from here." But that's when the movie really takes off.
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Summary: A different kind of movie...
Review: I rented this movie hoping to laugh [a lot], well it does have Albert Brooks in it, but I got much more in return. This movie delivers at so many levels that it doesn't really fit in any genre. You'll laugh and you'll cry, at the same time! Both Sobieski and Brooks deliver solid performances, backed up with a great cast. I heard someone compare it to Ghost World, and believe me, it is way better than Ghost World. Hell, I didn't even laugh in Ghost World... and this one has a real message.This movie really deserved a 5, but since the disc is bare bones it takes the rating back one star.
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Summary: Best Movie Ever!!!
Review: The best movie I have ever seen, ever!!! I could watch it for the rest of my life and never get sick of it and I probably will!!!
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Summary: One of the best movies out there!
Review: Sadly My First Mister basically went unnoticed in the theaters and quickly came to video where it sadly will sit on the shelves and gather dust like so many other smaller films but it is usally those smaller films that have the most heart and soul put into them but sadly some studios don't feel they will rake in the money and they don't release them to more theaters but with the word of mouth for this one I feel it would've been a hit! I saw Ebert and Roper review this film earlier this year on their show and both had so much great things to say about the film and eventually gave it two thumbs up, which is rightfully deserves. I rented the movie just the other night, not expecting that much from it but just a dark little comedy or something because that's how the reviews made it seem but by the end of the film I was totally blown away and in tears because it's such a great film. I think i'm even more saddend by the fact that not many people are going to pick up on this film and would rather rent one of Leelee Sobeski's other films like the Glass House and pass this one up because they never heard of it. Leelee has given us her greatest work in this film and truly shines in the role of J, the gothic loner who has nothing but eventually has more than she thought in her life. Of course the whole thing on the cover about the "new odd couple" really in my opinion makes this film seem more of a comedy than a drama but like the back of the box says...the movie is unpredictable, which it truly was to me because I didn't expect this film to blow me away like it did! Please to anyone that's reading this...go rent, buy, or steal (just don't tell them who told you to steal it you get caught!)this film because it truly is a wonderful piece of work that needs to be noticed and it's just far to good of a movie to collect dust on the video store shelves.
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Summary: Worth the time and money
Review: Others have already detailed this film better than I but I enjoyed the rental and am purchasing the DVD. If you like Albert Brooks then this is one of his best.
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Summary: Shame on the Studio for Not Promoting This Film
Review: This is a movie you will be telling everyone to see. It is about friendship, how people from two different worlds are more alike than they seem. The script, performances and direction are superb. It's funny, sad and profound. Shame on the Studio for not promoting this life affirming film.
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Summary: Contrived and conformist in the end; but nice performances
Review: The first two-thirds is very good (4 stars): story, characters, visual presentation and effects. Then gag, the whole thing becomes atrociously contrived and dishonest, insulting and irritating with its "heart-warming" conformist message. Sobieski is very very good though, the rest of the cast nice as well. Worth seeing once, or maybe just two-thirds.
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Summary: What I want to know...
Review: is how Christine Lahti and her casting agents managed to pull all the names they did for this Harold and Maude-ish claptrap. Yes, its the exact same plot but this time the death obsessed teen is a girl. This doesn't have the subtlelty and otherwordliness of H and M, though. Everything is forced, over the top, cartoonish. The only person's range that gets used in this movie is Leelee Sobieski. Albert Brooks, Carol Kane, Mike Mckean, John Goodman, wasted. Sobieski, fortunately for the makers of this movie, is so talented and easily watchable that she actually breathes some emotional life into her unlikeable character. Lame "independent" film. I cant wait until Sobieski gets older and more discerning with her roles, theres a Hollywood superstar in the making in her.
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Summary: Simply Perfect
Review: There's so much to say about this film. It shows that despite life's ups and downs, curves and bumps, we all have it within us to find our way. What it boils down to... I laughed, and I cried. This is the best film of the year.
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Summary: A sweet, gentle film
Review: After Tom Reynolds' well-written review of this movie, there isn't much left to be said! His is a hard act to follow. Almost every critic seemed to hone in on the last third of the movie, and I thought that their almost-rabid reaction was overdone ---the sequence of events was surely undeserving of this kind of intense dislike. I thought this was a very well-done movie, sweet, gentle, fairly uncomplicated. The casting was excellent and the portrayals of an insecure teen Goth, an emotionally repressed clothing salesman, a ditzy and clueless mother, a hippie father, and an uninvolved step-father were right on the mark. The main characters were fully fleshed out and the unlikely friendship between the two vulnerable loners, J and R, was touchingly rendered. Despite their age and lifestyle differences, the two have much in common and discover this as the movie progresses and they discover that they need each other. It is a film about acceptance, compassion, forgiveness, and love, no matter where or how these are found.
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