Mr. Jealousy (1997)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Noah Baumbach

Writer:

Noah Baumbach (written by)

Release Date:

5 June 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Lester is an occasional substitute teacher and he's very jealous. He is jealous about the last boyfriend...

Plot Keywords:

Teacher | Greenwich Village New York | New York City | Male Female Relationship | Group Therapy

Cast

Eric Stoltz	...	Lester Grimm, aka Vince
Annabella Sciorra	...	Ramona Ray
Chris Eigeman	...	Dashiell Frank
Carlos Jacott	...	Vince, aka Leo
Marianne Jean-Baptiste	...	Lucretia
Brian Kerwin	...	Stephen
John Lehr	...	Lint
Peter Bogdanovich	...	Dr. Howard Poke
Vincent Polidoro	...	Young Lester Grimm
Yvette Brooks Grant	...	Paulina
Jose Soto	...	Club Promoter
Delaine Yates	...	Ariana
Nico Baumbach	...	Ex-Boyfriend
Joel Kastelberg	...	Curt (as Joel Castleberg)
Dean Wareham	...	Music Video Director

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:R (certificate #35510) | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Spain:13

Filming Locations:

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Joel Castleberg Productions

Trivia:

On The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance marquee that appears in the film, a quote ("a classic") is attributed to G Brown. The critic in question is Georgia Brown, famed Village Voice film critic and mother of writer/director Noah Baumbach.

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: Numerous occurrences. At one point, not only is the mike visible, the *boom* is visible.

Quotes:

Ramona: (to Lester) What would you do if I bit your face, now... suddenly?

Movie Connections:

References Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Soundtrack:

I Never Will Forget You

Devoid of that annoying silliness

The downfall of nearly all comedies is that Silliness is so often used as a substitute for humor. In this film, I never felt embarrassed for any of the characters, who were allowed to seem like genuinely real people in the context of a genuinely humorous development. It was also literate, which was nice given the thread of narrative running through the thing. I felt that simply reading the script would have been a nice rainy-day read, but at the same time, the lines were not literarily pompous or turgid.

Altogether, this was not a great film---but nicely, nothing happened in it to make it a bad one, either. If you're fed up with variations on same-old-same-old, sit back and just let this film flow over you.