A woefully underdeveloped story populated by unbelievable characters.
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12/09/01
My First Mister (2001)
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Reviews Counted:79
Fresh:42
Rotten:37
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Though well-acted, My First Mister succumbs to contrived sentimentality in its last half.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A rebellious teenage girl (Leilee Sobieski) who dresses in Gothic garb and wears harsh metal jewelry in the piercings that cover her face, finds a friend in a conservative middle-aged man (Albert... [More]
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Albert Brooks, Desmond Harrington, John Goodman
Director: Christine Lahti
Reviews for My First Mister
While the movie loads on too much sap in the final third, it is still a funny and moving first-time effort.
10/12/01
Tilts too steeply into movie-disease-of-the-week territory.
10/10/01
A big-screen version of a turgid 'disease of the week' TV movie with an odd-couple twist.
10/12/01
A testament to both Sobieski and Brooks -- especially Brooks, who is Oscar-worthy here -- that we buy into their film's manipulative tendencies and its demands of unconditional acceptance.
10/28/01
60 minutes into My First Mister, I was thoroughly engrossed. A half-hour later, I desperately wanted the whole mess to end.
10/10/01
When a movie starts out as trenchant as "Ghost World" then turns into something as mawkish as "Steel Magnolias," it's been botched, plain and simple.
10/13/01
Sobieski's performance in this role pretty much kills off the film.
10/25/01
Convincingly reveals the transforming power of friendship to release us from fear, expand our hearts, and open us to the redemptive capacities of love.
10/13/01
Though I wanted to hate My First Mister and felt guilty about those telltale tears mopped up with a shirt sleeve, the darn thing did work.
10/19/01
What makes My First Mister a successful feature directing debut for Lahti is the emotional veracity it summons.
10/12/01
Suddenly this enchanting tale of cross-generational friendship becomes a Lifetime movie of the week, pat ending included.
10/15/01
the film abandons Randall's store completely to more effectively segue from an unsuccessful comedy into an equally unsuccessful tearjerker
10/22/01
Lahti has undermined her stars and delivered dreck.
10/12/01
There is a static feel to the film that neglects the actors in favor of the contrived story of life, love and death.
10/18/01
Despite the sloppy final act, My First Mister is worth seeing for Brooks and Sobieski's performances.
10/22/01
The calculated sappiness does succeed in provoking a heightened reaction--but resentment and disgust is surely not what they had in mind.
01/03/02
These two characters are so particular and sympathetic that the whole movie could simply observe them.
10/12/01
Top CriticWhat looked like a quirky character study suddenly congealed.
10/12/01
The plot ducks the obvious sexual pitfall that would make us squirm, but falls into another one: morbid uplift, out at the golden pond where dreams may come and you can sweetly pay it forward.
10/12/01
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