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Critics Consensus: Though well-acted, My First Mister succumbs to contrived sentimentality in its last half.
Critic Consensus: Though well-acted, My First Mister succumbs to contrived sentimentality in its last half.
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Sobieski'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.
If the girls in Ghost World were to see this one, they'd gag.
Offbeat friendship is provocative, dark, but sweet.
Terrible script, terrible plot, clichés and plot holes galore...
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.
Simply stated, this was a wonderful discovery. The movie boasts a cast who played off of each other effortlessly, and believably. It was poignant, and timeless. I loved this movie,
Super Reviewer
This was a story about a lonely and alienated Goth-like teenager named Jennifer Wilson (Leelee Sobieski) who has a lot of personal baggage (and almost unrecognizable under the tattoos, body piercings and a suicidal fetish.) Then she meets a grumpy clothing store owner (Albert Brooks) and little by little, they generate a real friendship. All bodes well for this tale of the unlikely friendship between two very different characters, who manage to connect despite these differences, not the least being the vast age differences (he's 49 and she is 17). They are clearly soul mates but not in the sexual sense (which in hinted at in one hilarious moment when Jennifer asks Randall upfront if he wants to f**k her and he promptly chokes on his Sanka coffee).
My type of movie - people (in this case a Goth chick and a dress salesman) listening to each other and growing emotionally.
I little weird. The acting was there but the story was a little slow and off.
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