KISSING JESSICA STEIN

Ed Driscoll A friend of ours invited Nina and I to see Kissing Jessica Stein today. What a fun movie--with the feeling of a hip Gen-X Annie Hall, the sort of film Woody Allen used to make in the 1970s before he went through his early 1980s Bergman phase, his early 1990s Antonioni phase, and his mid-1990s "comedic hooker" (Mighty Aphrodite, Deconstructing Harry, etc.) phase. Given the effortless feel of the movie, I was surprised to see this was only the second film its director has helmed, and that the two leads, Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen wrote the screenplay, and this was one of their first writing efforts.Early on while watching the film, as the story was being set-up, I kept contrasting it to "You've Got Mail", perhaps because "Mail" was the last New York romantic comedy...

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Apr 7th 2002
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