My First Mister (2001)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 79
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 37
Though well-acted, My First Mister succumbs to contrived sentimentality in its last half.
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 14
Though well-acted, My First Mister succumbs to contrived sentimentality in its last half.
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A first feature from acclaimed actress Christine Lahti (who won an Academy Award for her short film Lieberman in Love in 1995), My First Mister explores the delicate relationship between two unlikely individuals who bring each other out of their protective shells. Jennifer (Leelee Sobieski), the film's narrator, is a Goth-obsessed, tattooed 17-year old who absorbs herself in death-laden music and poetry. Just graduating from school and immersed in a dysfunctional relationship with her out-there
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Albert Brooks
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Leelee Sobieski
Jennifer ("J") -
Desmond Harrington
Randy -
Carol Kane
Mrs. Benson -
Mary Kay Place
Patty [Nurse] -
Michael McKean
Bob -
John Goodman
Benjamin -
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All Critics (87) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (37) | DVD (11)
A testament to both Sobieski and Brooks -- especially Brooks, who is Oscar-worthy here -- that we buy into their film's manipulative tendencies and its demands of unconditional acceptance.
Top CriticSobieski's performance in this role pretty much kills off the film.
Franklin's gooey, implausible script is too ridiculous to support unexpected bouts of sincerity, and the darkness is seldom as profound as it should be.
The sort of movie with so little faith in itself that it falls back on that most dreadful of clichés: The Fatal Development A Little More than Halfway Through.
Although the movie has its moments, it's a tearjerker that jerks too hard.
Beautiful and so phony it makes you urp.
The actors earn the couple of salty drops you may shed at the end -- the script sure doesn't.
Actress Lahti's feature directorial debut is a disappointingly sappy melodrama about the unlikely bond between a rebebllious high-school grad (Leelee Sobieski) and a dying older man (Albert Brooks).
A beautiful story about finding camaraderie, and ultimate love in the infrequent of places
...while Ghost World is, on the whole, a slightly better movie, My First Mister is nevertheless worth checking out mostly due to two incredible lead performances.
Starts out as a deliriously original "odd couple" comedy, and then hangs a quick left turn into shameless tear jerking.
A good small movie featuring a different kind of love story..
The calculated sappiness does succeed in provoking a heightened reaction--but resentment and disgust is surely not what they had in mind.
A woefully underdeveloped story populated by unbelievable characters.
There's a terrific movie somewhere inside Christine Lahti's My First Mister, but it's kept hidden by the trite trappings of a Lifetime movie-of- the-week.
She's not just tattooed and surly and he's not just geeky and stern - their characters are beautifully written and fleshed out gradually and admirably by the actors.
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