Synopsis
A Cinderella story with big hair.
A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
1992 Directed by David Burton Morris
A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
Sal is such a fucking idiot, it infuriates me how fucking hot Dylan McDermott is because I wanted to just fucking hate him in peace. Men are so fucking dumb. But I love love love Toby's dynamic with her friends. I really love Jamie Gertz, I'd watch her in anything. Even if this fucking takes forever to get there at least the final message is DOWN WITH THE BOURGEOISIE, SMASH YOUR CAR, LOVE IS ALL, so I'm satisfied.
Film #5 in my Crazy 90's Summer 2017 marathon.
On a very basic level, this is Pretty Woman for people who hated that Julia Roberts' character was ever a prostitute who had to take lessons to become elegant. The more Jami Gertz in this film tries to change, the more the story and the supporting characters decide that she needs to stay exactly the same as she's always been. In fact, he's the one who really needs to change. Which also makes this the Grease for people who hated that Danny wound up deciding that change never really fit him. That he didn't have a being-stuck-up problem of his own. That he and his friends were actually cool.
So... the…
I really, really liked it!
It definitely made me think of the movie "Pretty Woman" (1990) mixed with the show "The Nanny" (1993-1999) which came AFTER this movie. Funnily enough, this also really reminded me of "A Star is Born" (2018) as the main character Toby lives in New Jersey with her father.
This is the same Cinderella, Class Difference, Fish Out of Water story that we have seen many times, but there are a lot of things that made me like this one in particular. Jami Gertz's character Toby is really interesting, I really, really liked Dylan McDermott's performance (and he's so attractive), I love the beautiful New York setting, I like almost everything about 1992, I love the soundtrack, and even Dylan's apartment is breathtaking.
It started off slowly, but it turned out to be so cute and so much fun. I'm glad that it was recommended to me.
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I was pretty annoyed at Jami Getz's stalking in the beginning, but the second half, especially her dynamic with her friends and father, plus a perfect cheesy rom-com ending won me over in the end.
A little Pride & Prejudice here, a little Belladonna & Gambit there, and voila!
I really, really liked it!
It definitely made me think of the movie "Pretty Woman" (1990) mixed with the show "The Nanny" (1993-1999) which came AFTER this movie. Funnily enough, this also really reminded me of "A Star is Born" (2018) as the main character Toby lives in New Jersey with her father.
This is the same Cinderella, Class Difference, Fish Out of Water story that we have seen many times, but there are a lot of things that made me like this one in particular. Jami Gertz's character Toby is really interesting, I really, really liked Dylan McDermott's performance (and he's so attractive), I love the beautiful New York setting, I like almost everything about 1992, I love the soundtrack, and even Dylan's apartment is breathtaking.
It started off slowly, but it turned out to be so cute and so much fun. I'm glad that it was recommended to me.
List:
I was pretty annoyed at Jami Getz's stalking in the beginning, but the second half, especially her dynamic with her friends and father, plus a perfect cheesy rom-com ending won me over in the end.
This is one of those films that proves decades in film don't just end and begin at the end of the decade. Jersey Girl (not the Kevin Smith) has the feel of an 80s rom-com, but it was released in the early 90s. Jamie Gertz is charming in the lead role and the film has a couple of surprisingly good wide shots during a few sequences, especially the sunset and neon glow moments. There are some similarities between this and Pretty Woman, but to me this is the lesser one. Though, I do think some people might like this one more if they had a chance to discover it.
Sal is such a fucking idiot, it infuriates me how fucking hot Dylan McDermott is because I wanted to just fucking hate him in peace. Men are so fucking dumb. But I love love love Toby's dynamic with her friends. I really love Jamie Gertz, I'd watch her in anything. Even if this fucking takes forever to get there at least the final message is DOWN WITH THE BOURGEOISIE, SMASH YOUR CAR, LOVE IS ALL, so I'm satisfied.
This is fabulously dated, but it’s somehow better than like Pretty Woman, an adjacent movie, which kinda pales in comparison. Jami Gertz is so charming and lovely. When her dad starts telling her how perfect she is at the kitchen table? 😭
So, despite me thinking this was gonna be a rewatch of the Kevin Smith film, seeing anything with Gertz or Lee is a plus, and together...nice.
This was kind of a weird romantic comedy film, where Gertz is a Jersey girl sick of the same old guys in her neighborhood, so she goes off to the big city to find her dream man?? And she kind of does, and runs his car off the road and wrecks his car. And so starts their odd romance.
To be honest, Gertz seemed like a bit of a psycho in the beginning, and why she was basically stalking this guy so much and how that would win him over, I never understood.
And…
Film #5 in my Crazy 90's Summer 2017 marathon.
On a very basic level, this is Pretty Woman for people who hated that Julia Roberts' character was ever a prostitute who had to take lessons to become elegant. The more Jami Gertz in this film tries to change, the more the story and the supporting characters decide that she needs to stay exactly the same as she's always been. In fact, he's the one who really needs to change. Which also makes this the Grease for people who hated that Danny wound up deciding that change never really fit him. That he didn't have a being-stuck-up problem of his own. That he and his friends were actually cool.
So... the…
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