Kissing Jessica Stein

Kissing Jessica Stein

  • Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
  • Writer: Heather Juergensen,Jennifer Westfeldt
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: April 5, 2002
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Seeking Same
  • "Seeking Same" is a romantic comedy film directed by Charles Herman-Winfield and starring Jennifer Westfeldt and Cesser Julesson .
    The film tells the story of Jessica's unfortunate love affair, and when she is depressed, she is attracted by a friend notice.
    The film won a number of Best Audience Choice Awards at major film festivals across the United States that year.

    Details

    • Release date April 5, 2002
    • Filming locations Guilford, Connecticut, USA
    • Production companies Fox Searchlight Pictures, Brad Zions Films, Eden Wurmfeld Films

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $7,025,722

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $346,999

    Gross worldwide

    $10,013,424

    Movie reviews

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    • By Tracey 2022-03-18 08:01:01

      The ending is the highlight

      Some bean friends don't agree with the ending, I don't agree. The ending is the finishing touch, sublimating the whole film, making it out of the category of gay films and becoming a film of emotional exploration and personal growth. We are all looking for that person, putting aside the same-sex and opposite-sex, it is correct to seek the same fit. Jessie and Helen stumbled upon a new life in their respective lives, and both grew up in the relationship and became more aware of their own needs....

    • By Allene 2022-03-18 08:01:01

      <Marriage Notice> It's not her who evolved into the groom

      The blind date scene at the beginning suddenly reminded me of a novel I read
      The strange men made the heroine feel no sense of love,
      so she wanted to make friends through other people , so she
      met another woman by chance. It

      's just that things didn't turn out as well as she thought
      she was abandoned by the woman she liked as her lover, but still a friend

      it's funny
      like the other heroine said you just treat me as a roommate not a...

    • By Dolores 2022-03-18 08:01:01

      This is the reality, and we must move on

      After watching the last episode of Kissing Jesscia Stein on Potatoes, and seeing commenters complaining about the fly-swallowing ending, I thought it was the right ending. I'm glad that this is not another tragic film. It's not about sexual orientation, but about how modern people can grow into independent and strong individuals - to quote classmate ziye Character. Jessica Stein, an older young woman who works for a magazine, sees her former lover who turned into a poem in seven steps has...

    • By Amiya 2022-03-18 08:01:01

      It's a bit noisy, I don't know what the director wants to say

      I watched JKS at least two years ago. I was very interested in the film because of its title and preview. Finally, I waited until JKS played on the movie channel. An advertisement for a lesbian friend, so I met the second girl. The first girl is obviously not a LES, but she wants to make friends with the second girl. And the second girl in the film is a very horny LES who always wants to have sex with the first girl . I remember that in the end the second girl seemed to have no ML, and the...

    • By General 2022-03-18 08:01:01

      In 2002 when you found out you were Lara it was a big thing

      Twelve years later, the plot of the movie could be changed to, Jessica went on a date with a man, and she didn't feel good about it, so she went to Lala dating site, started dating women, and after dating a few women , She met a woman named Helen, and they were all attracted to each other. No matter it was character or appearance, they were on the verge of fire like dry firewood, and they began to fall in love.
      Since Jessica is a traditional heterosexual family, her mother has expectations...

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    • By Chadd 2023-07-01 12:08:06

      Fuck him, they're not together? ?...

    • By Kasey 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      Such an enlightened...

    • By Misty 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      It's life. Just...

    • By Teagan 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      Wise and humor are aptly described, especially...

    • By Melisa 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      the child was...

    Movie plot

    Jessica, who is sweet and smart, has bad luck in her relationship - her brother announces her marriage, her best friend is pregnant, her mother forces her to marry every day, and even on blind dates, she always encounters a freak like a David Woods movie. Depressed, he was attracted by a friend request that quoted Rilke's poems, but the other party turned out to be a woman. It turned out that the fashionable and avant-garde Helen was...
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    Movie quotes

    • Jessica: [telling Helen why her relationship with Larry didn't work out] He just wasn't funny, you know? That's always been my problem, I think. Not smart or not funny. Or not smart and not funny. Or smart, but in a totally unappealing way like funny stupid or funny dopy, rather than funny witty, or funny irony or funny goofy. Or, you think they're smart- and then you realize that they're not- and that's funny. But funny tragic. And then, if you're lucky enough to find someone who's the right kind of smart and the right kind of funny, usually they're just... kinda...

      Helen: Ugly?

      Jessica: Ugly, exactly. Oh my god, is that awful?

      Helen: No, not at all. Ugly doesn't do it for you. That's okay. See me, I'm kinda into ugly... But only if it's sexy ugly.

    • Jessica: You don't appreciate the chaos and absurdity of life on this planet. You don't understand irony, or ethnicity, or eccentricity, or poetry, or the simple joy of being a regular at the diner on your block. I love that. You don't drink coffee or alcohol. You don't over eat. You don't cry when you're alone. You don't understand sarcasm. You plod through life in a neat, colorless, caffeine free, dairy free, conflict free way. I'm bold and angry and tortured and tremendous and I notice when someone has changed their hair part, or when someone is wearing two very distinctly different shades of black or when someone changes the natural temperment of their voice on the phone. I don't give out empty praise. I'm not complacent or well-adjusted. I can't spend fifteen minutes breathing and stretching and getting in touch with myself. I can't spend three minutes finishing an article. I check my answering machine nine times every day and I can't sleep at night because I feel that there is so much to do and fix and change in the world, and I wonder every day if I am making a difference and if I will ever express the greatness within me, or if I will remain forever paralyzed by muddled madness inside my head. I've wept on every birthday I've ever had because life is huge and fleeting and I hate certain people and certain shoes and I feel that life is terribly unfair and sometimes beautiful and wonderful and extraordinary but also numbing and horrifying and insurmountable and I hate myself a lot of the time. The rest of the time I adore myself and I adore my life in this city and in this world we live in. This huge and wondrous, bewildering, brilliant, horrible world.

    • Jessica: Or-Or smart, but funny in a totally unappealing way. You know? Just like funny/stupid, or funny/dopey, but not funny/witty or funny/ironic or funny/goofy, you know? Or-Or they seem smart, and then you realize that they aren't at all. And that's funny, but funny/tragic.