Happy Customer It's not perfect, but it's a gem of a movie. I was surprised and touched by this movie. I don't usually like "feel-good" movies, but will recommend this one to everyone.Love evolves between these two morbid people. HE is safe from a romantic involvement with her (49 vs. 17), so he permits himself to welcome this lonely and lost girl into his lonely life and compassionately offers her one chance after another.Both actors are perfect in their roles - LeeLee is quite the original! And Brooks is great without being pathetic. Definitely a chemistry.Very entertaining writing/dialogue. Some take-away lines.So Lahti's a director? Has even one a director Oscar? Where have I been living? I'll check her out!

moonspinner55 Jill Franklyn wrote this coming-of-age comedy-drama which never gets the nimble balance between laughs and pathos quite right. Antisocial 17-year-old girl, into Goth attire, facial piercings, and suicide notes (and, in the completely off-putting first scene, smearing her own blood across her handwritten poetry), cleans herself up and gets a job in the stockroom of a local men's clothing store; there, she befriends her middle-aged boss, who doesn't have any friends either. Christine Lahti made her feature directorial debut here, and the scenario is littered with celebrity friends and (for the most part) a good-natured air. Some of the early visual jokes do not work at all, though Lahti is very adept at setting up intimate conversational moments. Her film would seem to share a common thread with the later "Lost in Translation", but--by focusing most of the attention on the ill-tempered, foul-mouthed teenager (Leelee Sobieski, dressed like a sewer rat)--interest in the central relationship takes an awfully long time to build. Albert Brooks is rather adorable in cardigan sweaters and a natty mustache, but Brooks does more for the movie than it does for him. By the halfway mark, the picture has sunk into a vat of mushy sentiment, clichés, and scenes lifted from other (better) movies and television shows. ** from ****

landisc ... so I can't really rate it. But I can say that the character J was pretty annoying. So she paints with blood and sits down on moving escalators and glares at the conformist sheep surrounding her in the mall. Was the "Comedy" part of this moving supposed to be laughing at her? If so, then yeah, it's pretty funny! Otherwise the movie is painfully dull, kind of like the knife J uses to cut herself.I will say that the friendship that arises between J and her boss is somewhat interesting. Nonetheless, I watched this movie on a Tivo and found myself wanting to fast forward not only through the commercials, but through the movie as well. I would recommend that only individuals with a very high tolerance for angsty, attention-seeking teenage characters watch this motion picture.

richard-wheeler This was a story about a rebellious teenager named Jennifer Wilson (Leelee Sobieski)who lived with a so 70s family. This was also a movie based on what kids, as teenagers experience through their life. For example, being rejected: Everyone fell asleep in class as Jennifer said her speech.Some kids like being the opposite: Jennifer hated smiling and she hated seeing her parents. And some kids believe that they are gay: at the age of 14, Jennifer thought she was lesbian. Being different: Jennifer loved things that were dark and warm and she wore boxers instead of g-strings. Rebelling against your religion: Jennifer believed in hell and she wanted to go there. And of course, LOVE! She had a crush on a 49 year old man named Randall Harris (Albert Brooks)who was the head of the store called "Rutherfields". Jennifer was looking for a job there. And then, Randall didn't allow her work there because, she was a goth! And , Jennifer called Randy a beer belly! HA!HA!HA!HA! Soon, Jennifer finally got a job at Rutherfields and she began to work at the back and give all the clothes colour codes and she had to arrange them all in order. And that "Shaking that ass" song suited each moment and then, you hear "Okay, don't touch me". And also when Randall said that he had a blue foot as he walked about as he got ready for a run. And not so soon, Jennifer went outside to look for Randy because, he hadn't come back. Jennifer found him lying in the road.At the hospital, a doctor named Mr.Smithman, I think (Kevin Cooney) said that Randall was dying. Jennifer was so distraught that she ran to the cemetery and rolled about on someone's grave. Ooh. It was so tragic. And like what Jennifer said: When someone's dying, you feel you don't have a life anymore". It's true because, you get so close to that person you love and when that person hasn't got long to live. Your love that you put into that person has been taken away from you.Jennifer later on went to New Mexico to find Sarah Harris, Randall's ex-wife. But fortunately, she had passed away six months earlier, according to her son Randy Harris Jr (Desmond Harrington. Jennifer told Randy that his father was still alive. Randy was busy packing up the house that he was living in. Ans sadly, Randy didn't want to see his father because, Randall was dying and Randy's mother JUST died. He had enough seeing his close family members die.The last time Jennifer saw Randall was at a dinner party. And soon, he died. Shame. And Randall left Jennifer with his son. Jennifer had also grown out of her teenage stage and she was ready to move on.A Teenage drama.