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...visiting dugout climbed Herrmann, the New Jersey native, a relative greenhorn standing on the most pressure-packed stage imaginable with a paltry 15 collegiate at-bats under his belt...
...now—slowly but surely—the sophomore is proving that Coach Walsh wasn’t so crazy in that rainy New Jersey ballgame almost one year...
...movie then jumps forward seven years. Gertie has become an improbably articulate first grader living in New Jersey with her grandfather and dad, who works as a street cleaner and dreams of returning to his old job and the Manhattan good life. A visit to the local video store shakes up their routine when the employee and part-time grad student behind the counter (Liv Tyler) attempts to bring an end to Trinke’s seven year experiment in celibacy. An unexpected job opportunity in New York also forces Trinke to decide between his original life plan...
Though Affleck should never attempt to cry on film (or say the line “I’m gonna be the best daddy in the world!”), Jersey Girl nevertheless benefits from his non-method approach to acting, which fits in with the film’s down-to-earth style and subject matter. Like all of Smith’s previous movies, Jersey Girl is almost as littered as New Jersey itself with curse words, sex jokes, and an long list of A-list cameos (some amusing if predictable, others genuinely surprising...
Filmed mostly on location in Paulsboro, N.J., Jersey Girl is an amiable ode to a way of life, a life whose pleasures and tensions Smith explores with disarming honesty and humor. Having based his career thus far on sexual innuendoes and pot references, Smith has produced a surprisingly insightful movie about definitions of family and success in an ever-accelerating world. With an ending that is predictable without being formulaic, Jersey Girl should appeal to a wide spectrum of moviegoers. It’s good, clean fun—penis jokes...