My First Mister, a good and often well-written and acted film, stars Leelee Sobieski, one of the best new actresses of late, co-stars as a lonley and alienated goth type girl with a lot of personal baggage. Enter Albert Brooks as a men's clothing salesman in a mall who becomes her boss after she comes by the store for a job. Then starts a relationship between the two not in sexual terms, but as a second family type of one (her family is quite distant from her, he doesn't even have a family anymore). The first two acts are quite good, sometimes a little over-emotional but in check and well paced. The third act starts to go downhill though with corniness and an amount of unbelievability pulling the film down (it is almost as if writer Franklyn didn't know where to go). But at least the bulk of the film is a good show to pass the time; Brooks fans won't be dissapointed and Sobieski is also a note of big interest. B+
Review of My First Mister
