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| Title | Kissing Jessica Stein | Year | 2001 | |||||||||||||
| Director | Charles Herman-Wurmfeld | Writer | Heather Juergensen Jennifer Westfeldt |
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| Country | USA | Language | English | |||||||||||||
| Cast | Jennifer Westfeldt, Heather Juergensen, Scott Cohen, Tovah Feldshuh | |||||||||||||||
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Officials site Kissing Jessica Stein, an unofficial fansite KJS Unofficial fansite |
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A woman searching for the perfect man instead discovers the perfect woman in this romantic comedy.
Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) is a woman with a solid career as a copy editor, but her love life isn't much to write home about. She's been through a long series of disastrous first dates that refuse to evolve into second dates, and the well-intended advice of her best friend Joan (Jackie Hoffman) and former boyfriend Josh (Scott Cohen) isn't helping a bit.
One day, Jessica is scanning personal ads in the newspaper with her friends, and she sees one with a quote from her favorite poet. Jessica reads on to discover that she has a lot in common with the person who placed the ad — too much so, since it turns out the notice is from a woman, Helen Cooper (Heather Juergensen), who manages an art gallery. Jessica figures it would at least be nice to hang out with someone who shares her interests, and she gives Helen a call.
Jessica and Helen quickly strike up a close friendship that evolves into something more intimate, though neither of them has ever been involved with another woman ... and Helen is a bit more avid about her new romantic horizons than Jessica.
As their relationship progresses, Jessica finds herself struggling with her feelings about her new sexual outlook, and she isn't sure how to break the news about her relationship to her mother (Tovah Feldshuh) as she tries to decide if she should bring Helen along to her brother's wedding.
Kissing Jessica Stein was based on the off-Broadway play Lipschtick, which was written by Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen, who starred in the original stage production as well as this film adaptation; the film won both the Critics' Special Jury Award and the Audience Award at the 2001 Los Angeles Film Festival. — Mark Deming
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The tale of an ostensibly straight, charming, yet neurotic Jewish girl who falls in love with a woman, Kissing Jessica Stein struck a chord with film festival audiences.
"We wanted to explore what happens when a woman decides to take the tenderness and intimacy that exists in female friendships and make it more complete" says Jennifer Westfeldt.
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| I love this movie...it's like me when I first came out. |
| Written by: Alissa Black |
| I was angry a little watching that she saids "that's only one I haven't done." The cause might be offensive, but she has really opened-mind and has her own way to let something 'marinate' |
| Written by: Achy |
Helen: Some people smoke pot, some people bungee jump, some people chant. What do you do to be happy?
Jessica: I never realized lesbians accessorized
Jessica: Oh, I'm a terrible insomniac
Helen: What does your therapist say about all of this?
Jessica: [to Helen] Oh, no offense...no offense. I mean look at you. Who wouldn't want to have sex with you. I mean 'do' you.
Helen: I took out an ad for Christ's sake. And I ended up with the Jewish Sandra Dee.
Helen: Who do you have to blow to get some fucking pussy around here!
Helen: Don't decide right now, just let it marinate for a while.
Helen: Harvey Keitel. He's very sexy-ugly.
[Josh is confronting Jessica after she made a private phone call.]
Martin: C'mon. C'mon. This is not something you can try on and see if it fits, okay? I can't put black shoe polish on my face and join a gospel choir, 'cause, I don't know, I don't feel so white no more.
Helen: It's just like kissing a guy.
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