Summaries

A 17-year-old girl has a troubled relationship with a 49-year-old man.

Jennifer does not fit in. A total misfit, she's as wacky as a teenager can be. Goth-ed out with multiple piercings, tattoos, and dyed hair, she listens to strange music, watches vintage TV, eats primarily chocolate, and self injures. But now high school is over and she needs a job. Can she possibly have anything in common with the overweight middle-aged man in the haberdashery window? He gives her a job, not to mention a real friendship.—Martin Lewison <[email protected]>

Jennifer 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 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, 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.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Details

Keywords
  • teenage girl
  • girl
  • intergenerational friendship
  • piercing
  • goth girl
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
Release date Oct 25, 2001
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United States Germany
Official sites Paramount Classics
Language English
Filming locations Santa Clarita, California, USA
Production companies Film Roman Productions ApolloMedia Distribution Carol Baum Productions

Box office

Budget $5250000
Gross US & Canada $568762
Opening weekend US & Canada $102456
Gross worldwide $595005

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 49m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Synopsis

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