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7.2/10   3,320 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Jill Franklyn (written by)
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Release Date:
26 October 2001 (Canada) more
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Mismatched. Misguided. Unmistakably friends. more
Plot:
A 17-year-old girl has a troubled relationship with a 49-year-old man. full summary | add synopsis
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A Little Gem, With an Awful and Vulgar Title more (104 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Rutanya Alda ... Woman at Apartment
Natasha Braisewell ... Girl in Vintage

Albert Brooks ... Randall - 'R'
Henry Brown ... Jack Taylor - Salesman

Gary Bullock ... Mr. Smithman

Kevin Cooney ... Doctor
Nic Costa ... Blaine - Surfer Boy
William Forward ... Customer

John Goodman ... Benjamin

Desmond Harrington ... Randy

Shawn Huff ... Woman at R's Store

Carol Kane ... Mrs. Benson

Michael McKean ... Bob
Chadwick Palmatier ... Manager

Pauley Perrette ... Bebe
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Mein erster richtiger Freund (Germany) (TV title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and some sexual material.
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109 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Leelee Sobieski's character, Jennifer, has a number of facial piercings, and cartilage piercings in both ears, but does not have her earlobes pierced - to which a reference is made in the movie. At the time the movie was made, Leelee herself did not have pierced earlobes, as she did not have them done until 2006. Specially for her part in this movie, she did, however, have both nostrils, both eyebrows and her lip pierced, along with the cartilage of both ears. After filming was completed, she removed the piercings and allowed them to close up again, but kept the jewelry as a souvenir of the movie. more
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Continuity: When J is talking to Randy from her car after first meeting him, the door is open from his point of view but closed from hers. more
Quotes:
Jennifer ("J"): Death touched her lips to say goodbye and to always remember the man who touched her first, touched her with his heart. That is forever hers, my first mister. A man of few words. Life of more questions than answers. He awoken me my heart which beats stronger because of him and all that he has left me. more
Movie Connections:
References "Three's Company" (1977) more
Soundtrack:
On Stage more

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11 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
A Little Gem, With an Awful and Vulgar Title, 8 September 2006
8/10
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jennifer Benson (Leelee Sobieski) is a seventeen years old misfit punk teenager that uses piercing, tattoos, wears only black clothes and dyed hair, self-inflicts injures and has fixation for death. She misses a father and a normal mother, since Mrs. Benson (Carol Kane) has trouble in the communication with her, and feels absolutely rejected. While looking for a job, she meets the forty-nine years old Randall Harris (Albert Brooks), a lonely man who owns a shopping store, and he hires her. They are opposites but with loneliness and lack of friends in common. They become close friends, and their interaction changes their behavior for good while secrets and feelings are disclosed.

This is the second work of the excellent underrated actress Christine Lahti as director that I see (the other one is the short "Lieberman in Love"), and also a surprisingly great movie. The original and the Brazilian titles are simply awful and vulgar, and do not mirror this sensitive story of loneliness and friendship. Leelee Sobieski has another great performance in the role of a disturbed and rebellious teenager, needy of love and care, who changes her behavior when she meets her soul-mate friend in a middle-age man. I am not fan of Albert Brooks, but he is great performing Randall Harris, the man who touches Jennifer in the heart. In the end, a toast to all special "F" words: to friends, family, fate, forgiveness and forever. Wonderful and touching! My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Meu Primeiro Homem" ("My First Man")

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