Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

When I first saw this movie back in 2000 something, I was a confused 11 year old who just started noticing that I might be into other girls. It aired on late night TV one day, and I remember seeing the summary for the movie and feeling a sort of tense excitement at the thought there might be actual people like me represented in a movie. So I stayed up and watched the whole thing (way past my bedtime, too) and that experience has never quite left me. I'm still looking for my Helen to this day.The movie explores its subject matter in a clever and humorous way and doesn't feel overly cheesy, despite not differing much from your typical romcom other than the main characters' sexuality. Overall, very charming and worth watching if you're interested in LGBT cinema.

This was an attempt to cash in on the then-new lesbian-or-is-she? trend with a Woody Allen-ish chatty, yet vacuous, script for teenage girls who haven't seen Annie Hall yet or didn't understand it. Kissing Jessica Stein (Stein--surprise!) came off just plain annoying. Of course the two girls are beautiful, their hair, make up, and dress perfect in every scene. Good thing, because the conservative Jewish Stein strings along the horny femme fatale Helen like a virgin on prom night, only this prom night lasts forever. Suddenly, after great sex, hysterically blacked out, Jessica decides she wants the Jewish male co-worker she has spurned for years. See? She got to experience something out of the ordinary, but then, like a good girl, she returned to her normal life. Whew! That was a close one! I was so afraid the pining co-worker was going to go home alone! And thank goodness Helen quickly got a new girlfriend so we don't feel sorry for her either.

I've never been bothered by the fact that they were never nude. In my opinion, the film is not at all about sex, it's about growth and relationships. It's Jessica Stein's realization that she is the only reason she is unhappy; she has an image in her mind of what "should" make her happy, and this film is the story of her letting go of that and taking a risk that maybe something completely different could make her happy. It's a movie about growing, not about sex.If you haven't seen it, you should. Movies have played an important role in my life and I would say hands down, this is my favorite.That's all I was going to write, but apparently you have to write at least 10 lines. I first saw this movie when I was in college and was having that whole crisis of, "What am I supposed to be doing? How do I get to the house with the 2.5 kids and white picket fence?" This movie helped me realize that you can't live your life planning for the future all the time. Find the thing that makes you happy and hold on to it. Now, five or so years later, I'm happier than I ever have been, living a very fulfilling life that I'd never imagined for myself. I'm starting a film production company that I hope will someday make films like this one.

Lets face it, more than a few female Jewish thirtysomethings in Manhattan take a stopwatch to bed to time the length of their orgasms, then ask their therapists to evaluate the mechanism of the watch, rather than the act itself, or the person with whom it was conducted.There are plenty of neurotics around, but sometimes, just sometimes, a film like this makes you feel, well, a little neurotic about them. One Woody Allen is enough.Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen get off with each other, the former, apparently because she finds most guys emotionally retarded or losers, the latter, because she is sleeping around in an unfulfilled manner. So far so good. But these women are supposedly intellectual and creative, the "decent" guy who secretly fancies her even quotes Anais Nin, implying Jessica's search for perfection relates to her perception of it, rather than perfection itself.Beyond the schmaltz and warm family scenes, particularly pleasing when Jess's mother acknowledges she knows she is with another woman, there are few home truths and little analysis of the human condition. The best vignette ended on the cutting room floor - Jackie Hoffman, who works in the same newspaper officer as our heroine, has settled down with a NJB (nice Jewish boy) and will forgo wild sex as she adapts to motherhood; she kisses Helen (Juergensen) on the mouth during a stairwell assignation at the wedding, you can see waves crashing on the beach as she experiences a taste of the medicine from this femme fatale, who has transformed Jessica's life.The two stars, who also wrote this piece, have excellent chemistry together and the ending is not as bad - or clichéd - as some would suggest. But this wasn't exactly the Jewish penicillin I'd hoped for, mind you, I might start reading Anais Nin again.