My First Mister
Synopsis: A troubled 17 year old girl has a platonic relationship with her 49 year old boss.
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Goth girl Jennifer (or J as she likes to be called) has not many reasons to live for. Her family doesn’t understand her, she has no friends, and most important of all, she hates herself and her life. Fresh out of high school, she shows up with her tattoos and piercings at a mall clothing store and asks for a job. Randall, the store manager, tells her he will only consider her if she cleans up her image. She does, so she gets the job, and as odd as it may seem, J, who is 17, and Randall, who is 49, start a friendship.
So far so good. The movie was relatively interesting until this point, J and Randall were nicely developed, their problems, points of view and differences clearly expressed. As their friendship develops they both start to change, and this is also well handled at first, but by the time they start to realize that their friendship is growing into something stronger the story takes an abrupt turn that seems to have been deliberately inserted in the plot to avoid the difficult subject of a love relationship between a teenage girl and an older man. The second half of the movie is cheesy and unoriginal, it tries to leave you dry of tears by recurring to every imaginable cliché. It seemed as if I inadvertently changed the channel and I was now watching a B-class Lifetime channel drama.
Leelee Sobieski and Albert Brooks deliver good performances as J and Randall, but unfortunately that isn’t enough to save this film.
©2008 by Miguel Grinberg
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