Jersey Girl
Jersey Girl is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written, co-edited and directed by Kevin Smith. It stars Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler with George Carlin (in his final film appearance), Stephen Root, Mike Starr, Raquel Castro, Jason Biggs and Jennifer Lopez in supporting roles. The film follows a widowed man who must take care of his precocious daughter after her mother dies during childbirth.
Plot
Oliver "Ollie" Trinké is a powerful media publicist who meets and quickly marries an attractive young Latina woman named Gertrude Steiney and they are both very happy together. After about six or seven months, Gertrude discovers that she is pregnant, but Ollie, obsessed with his publicity work, neglects her in favor of his job and doesn't lighten his workload. On her due date, Gertrude does go into labor and Ollie forces himself to leave his office to be at the hospital with her, but tragedy strikes when Gertrude dies from internal bleeding during childbirth.
More details
| author | Kevin Smith |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New Jersey New York City |
| director | Kevin Smith |
| editor | Kevin Smith Scott Mosier |
| events | human pregnancy |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | blacklist bleed borough chance encounter civil servant cry elementary school force graduate student independence day move new life nyc obsess public relations firm public works seven years sweeney todd talent show video store wait widow |
| musicBy | James L. Venable |
| producer | Scott Mosier |
| productionCompany | View Askew Productions |
| publisher | Miramax Films |
| recordedAt | New Jersey New York City Toronto |
| theme | romantic comedy |