Jersey Girl (2004)

Jersey Girl (2004)

Comedy/Drama/Romance

Oliver 'Ollie' Trinke is ambitious media publicist, who meets beautiful and young Latina woman named Gertrude Steiney, young people get married fast and some months later Gertrude finds out she's pregnant. Ollie keeps working like he did
before and leaves Gertrude without deserved attention. When Gertrude goes into labor and gives birth to their daughter, she died afterwards in relation to internal bleeding. Oliver decides not to face his grief and loss, he buries himself into work. Gertie, his newborn daughter gets all the necessary attention and care from Oliver's father, Bart Trinke, who takes a month off from Jersey City Sanitation Crew, where he works. After Bart leaves Oliver alone with Gertie to deal with being a single parent, Ollie destroys his job as publicist by trashing his latest client, Will Smith. Seven years later, Oliver is  continually living in New Jersey with Bart and Gertie, who has become seven years old by now. Ollie tries to get a job at local publicity firm, but finds out he is still blacklisted by all New York's public relation firms, who refuse to hire him, even though he has a great resume. Ollie has to come to terms to work in Jersey City as civil servant. Gertie is going to elementary school, on her free time from studying, she makes Ollie go to video store to rent movies and watch them as spending quality family time. In the video store they meet Maya, young store's shopkeeper. Ollie feels for the first time after Gertrude's passing that he's interested in someone and Gertie likes Maya too, quickly she becomes part of their lives. After spending time with outraged citizens, he understands how much he misses public relations work and gets in contact with his one-time protege Arthur and ends up having a promising interview to get his career back in the New York's firm. Tension grows between Ollie, Gertie, Bart and Maya when it turns out his interview is at the same time as Gertie's school talent show. Ollie and Gertie get into a huge fight, he loses control over his emotions and tells his 9-year old that she and her mother took life from him and he only wants it back. Gertie is very offended and hurt, tries to hurt his father back. Oliver tries to apologize to his daughter, but words are spoken, Gertie won't accept his apology and goes crying to her room. Few days later they make up and Gertie accepts actual fact that they are moving back to New York. Oliver heads out to his interview in the city, while waiting he has a chance to meet with the man, who he trashed at his public outburst before he lost his job and 
career, Will Smith. Will has no idea no Ollie is, but they get to talk about work and children. Oliver decides to leave the office before he's even been interviewed to make it on time to Gertie's performance at the school. Later talking to Maya about New York and the job he could've had, Ollie confesses that talking care of Gertie is the only thing he's been good at, though
he loved and misses his old life. 

Produced by Scott Mosier, who produced romantic comedy Zack And Miri Make A Porno in 2008.
Directed and written by Kevin Smith, who directed and wrote action-horror movie Red State in 2011.

Cast: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Liv Tyler, Raquel Castro, George Carlin, Jason Biggs, Will Smith