This DVD item from 20th Century Fox was reviewed on 10-Dec-2008. Kissing Jessica Stein Reference DVD. Classifications : General Comedy Genres DVD Video Gay & Lesbian Comedy Genres DVD Video 4-for-3 Comedy 4-for-3 DVD Custom Stores Specialty Stores DVD Video 4-for-3 All DVDs 4-for-3 DVD Custom Stores Specialty Stores DV . Click the following link to view the cover of Kissing Jessica Stein. Related topics: 2001. General. Comedy. Genres. DVD. Video. Gay & Lesbian. Comedy. Genres. DVD. Video. requestid: afb973d6-6d93-4a44-bd6e-4cf1c4341963
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1) DVD DVD Kissing Jessica Stein by 20th Century Fox. Could not even play the disc and reason displayed on the dvd player is
"Please check Region Code"¤ 2) DVD DVD Kissing Jessica Stein by 20th Century Fox. This film is about relationships, regardless of the genders of the participants. Jessica Stein is a neurotic young woman who can´t seem to find a man worth the time to date, so she answers a personals ad placed by another woman. Right off the bat the viewer sees how quirky Jessica really is. She runs out on the first meeting.
Without giving too much of the movie away, we see how this relationship finally develops then succumbs to what many couples, both gay and straight ultimately have to face, the loss of compatibility. The movie goes from highs to lows as these characters are developed into living, breathing people. I think it helps that the main actors also wrote the script. Almost anyone with a sense of humor or sense of romance will enjoy this film.¤ 3) DVD DVD Kissing Jessica Stein by 20th Century Fox. KJS was directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, but written by Heather Juergensen & Jennifer Westfeldt, who star in the film as New Yorkers Jessica Stein & Helen Cooper. Despite the lesbianism there is little T&A- the leads are rather frumpy, but not unattractive, women. The story is every lesbian´s fantasy- seducing a clueless straight girl fed up with the male sex. This banal premise goes nowhere. Jessica´s hetero-frustration is portrayed in a montage of bad dates that could only occur in films, so right away emotional realism is tossed, & sets the film up for a failure to connect on anything but a superficial level. Helen is a bisexual fed up with men´s shallowness & places 1 of those `bi-curious´ personal ads. Jessica reads it, is intrigued by a quote from Rilke (she is a copy editor & bookworm), & answers. Even though the ad claims to seek `friendship or more´ any person over the age of 20 (especially a copy editor) would know this is adspeak for a lesbian relationship. The 30+ Jessica is clueless, & spends the whole film never even attempting to get with it. That Jessica, as portrayed before meeting Helen, could ever be attracted to such a duplicitous & shallow sort as Helen- even if a man- undercuts the whole point of her dates-from-hell montage. Also, it´s supposed to be funny that she approaches her 1st lesbian experience with a slew of `how to´ books. Yes, this is a comedy, but it´s not too much to ask the characters & writing to show some maturity & developmental stability.¤ 4) DVD DVD Kissing Jessica Stein by 20th Century Fox. Brought the movie because I´ve read the reviews here, and I thought it would be really good. This movie disappointed me, I was watching it and ended up thinking "What the hell this movie is trying to do?". The plot is so simple: Jessica, a super-shy-lesbian-curious found a girlfriend on the ad, she loves her but she doesn´t wanna have sex with her. In the end, she goes back to her co-worker which happens to be a guy. That´s it! Wanna buy it? Up to you...¤ 5) DVD DVD Kissing Jessica Stein by 20th Century Fox. I really enjoyed this film. It´s funny but in a quiet way. I thought the relationship between Jessica and Helen felt real. Except for the portrayals of Jessica´s mother and the wacky friend who gives overbearing advice, I felt the film veered away from stereotypes. I liked how the film showed that Jessica´s fear of intimacy (with men and women) were the same - her refusal to divulge how Helen has become a part of her life to her mother reminds me of similar situations with straight couples - the man who refuses to introduce his mistress or girlfriend to his mother out of shame. I thought this was a well-written film about relationships.¤ 6) DVD DVD Kissing Jessica Stein by 20th Century Fox. Sex and the single girl gets a fresh new spin in this "very funny movie"! (Joel Siegel, Good morning America) Fed up with her fruitless search for "Mr. Right" and tired of blind dates from hell, attractive journalist Jessica Stein whimsically responds to a classified ad - from Helen! Making and breaking new rules of dating as they go, the two women muddle through an earnest but hilarious courtship that blurs the lines between friendship and romantic love in this "smashing romantic comedy" (Rolling Stone)¤ 7) DVD DVD Kissing Jessica Stein by 20th Century Fox. Blessed by casual charm and sophisticated wit, Kissing Jessica Stein does for same-sex romance what Annie Hall did for straight neurotics. The influence of Woody Allen is keenly felt on this resourceful New York comedy (expanded from an off-Broadway play), especially when cowriter and costar Jennifer Westfeldt channels Diane Keaton´s "la-di-da" nervousness as Jessica Stein, a romantically frustrated heterosexual copyeditor who impulsively answers a personal ad from a bisexual woman. Helen (cowriter Heather Juergensen) is as relaxed about lesbian love as Jessica is anxious, but they click as lovers, and so does the movie´s delightful exploration of their budding relationship, which is further complicated by Jessica´s yenta-like mother (Tovah Feldshuh) and a former boyfriend (Scott Cohen) who´s now Jessica´s boss. While acknowledging the serious repercussions of Jessica´s bisexual flirtation, Kissing Jessica Stein takes its characters on a smart, compassionate journey of self-discovery that´s as truthfully observant as it is gently entertaining. --Jeff Shannon¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 7-Jan-2009, 024543050438, GHB-J4B-5TB-N0B-BGB-IGB-8 
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