Jersey Girl (2004 film)

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← Previous revision Revision as of 09:41, 22 April 2026 Line 63: Line 63: The film's budget included $10 million for Affleck and $4 million for Lopez.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.today.com/popculture/marketing-jersey-girl-post-gigli-world-wbna4580539 | title=Marketing 'Jersey Girl' in a post-'Gigli' world | website=[[Today (U.S. TV program)|Today]] | agency=Associated Press | date=March 24, 2004 | access-date=August 21, 2017 | archive-date=June 12, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612184854/https://www.today.com/popculture/marketing-jersey-girl-post-gigli-world-wbna4580539 | url-status=live }}</ref> In the original draft of the script, [[Bruce Willis]] rather than Will Smith was the cause of (and eventual resolution to) Ollie's problems. Kevin Smith wrote the first fifty pages of the script with [[Bill Murray]] and [[Joey Lauren Adams]] in mind.<ref name="SBS343">{{cite web | url=http://silentbobspeaks.com/?p=343 | title=Rosario, the Prom, and the Week That Was | first=Kevin | last=Smith | website=Silent Bob Speaks | date=August 8, 2007 | publisher=My Boring Ass Life | access-date=June 29, 2018 | archive-date=June 12, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142946/http://silentbobspeaks.com/?p=343 | url-status=live }}</ref> The film was primarily shot in [[Highlands, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jerseygirl-movie.com/highlands.html|title=Visit Highlands, New Jersey|website=Jersey Girl official website|publisher=[[Miramax]]|access-date=August 21, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903222818/http://www.jerseygirl-movie.com/highlands.html|archive-date=September 3, 2006}}</ref> [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning [[Vilmos Zsigmond]], its [[director of photography]], was said by Smith to have been "an ornery old cuss who made the crew miserable."<ref>{{cite news|title=AICN, Round Two: Responses to Talk-Back Posts |url=http://viewaskew.com/theboard/viewtopic.php?t=41118&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=ornery+cuss+made+crew+miserable&start=111 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155810/http://viewaskew.com/theboard/viewtopic.php?t=41118&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=ornery+cuss+made+crew+miserable&start=111 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |publisher=View Askew Productions|access-date=June 29, 2018}}</ref> [[Paulsboro, New Jersey]] served as another of the shooting locations; scenes were shot there at its municipal building, Clam Digger Bar, and high school. Cut from it were scenes at Paulsboro's St. John's Catholic Church (now St. Mary the Queen Coptic Orthodox Church)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Facebook |url=https://m.facebook.com/p/St-Mary-The-Queen-Coptic-Orthodox-Church-100064482142957/ |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=www.facebook.com}}</ref> and Little League Field. The scene in the church was to show the marriage between Ollie and Gertie; it was cut shortly after Affleck and Lopez split up in real life and their scenes were reshot, reducing her part due to concern over the poor box-office reception of ''[[Gigli]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.viewaskew.com/newboard/messages507/2485.html | title=Come Back, Jason Blair! All is forgiven! | first=Kevin | last=Smith |publisher=View Askew Productions|access-date=June 29, 2018 | date=August 12, 2003}}</ref> The film's budget included $10 million for Affleck and $4 million for Lopez.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.today.com/popculture/marketing-jersey-girl-post-gigli-world-wbna4580539 | title=Marketing 'Jersey Girl' in a post-'Gigli' world | website=[[Today (U.S. TV program)|Today]] | agency=Associated Press | date=March 24, 2004 | access-date=August 21, 2017 | archive-date=June 12, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612184854/https://www.today.com/popculture/marketing-jersey-girl-post-gigli-world-wbna4580539 | url-status=live }}</ref> In the original draft of the script, [[Bruce Willis]] rather than Will Smith was the cause of (and eventual resolution to) Ollie's problems. Kevin Smith wrote the first fifty pages of the script with [[Bill Murray]] and [[Joey Lauren Adams]] in mind.<ref name="SBS343">{{cite web | url=http://silentbobspeaks.com/?p=343 | title=Rosario, the Prom, and the Week That Was | first=Kevin | last=Smith | website=Silent Bob Speaks | date=August 8, 2007 | publisher=My Boring Ass Life | access-date=June 29, 2018 | archive-date=June 12, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142946/http://silentbobspeaks.com/?p=343 | url-status=live }}</ref> The film was primarily shot in [[Highlands, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jerseygirl-movie.com/highlands.html|title=Visit Highlands, New Jersey|website=Jersey Girl official website|publisher=[[Miramax]]|access-date=August 21, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903222818/http://www.jerseygirl-movie.com/highlands.html|archive-date=September 3, 2006}}</ref> [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning [[Vilmos Zsigmond]], its [[director of photography]], was said by Smith to have been "an ornery old cuss who made the crew miserable."<ref>{{cite news|title=AICN, Round Two: Responses to Talk-Back Posts |url=http://viewaskew.com/theboard/viewtopic.php?t=41118&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=ornery+cuss+made+crew+miserable&start=111 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155810/http://viewaskew.com/theboard/viewtopic.php?t=41118&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=ornery+cuss+made+crew+miserable&start=111 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |publisher=View Askew Productions|access-date=June 29, 2018}}</ref> [[Paulsboro, New Jersey]] served as another of the shooting locations; scenes were shot there at its municipal building, Clam Digger Bar, and high school. Cut from it were scenes at Paulsboro's St. John's Catholic Church (now St. Mary the Queen Coptic Orthodox Church)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Facebook |url=https://m.facebook.com/p/St-Mary-The-Queen-Coptic-Orthodox-Church-100064482142957/ |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=www.facebook.com}}</ref> and Little League Field. The scene in the church was to show the marriage between Ollie and Gertie; it was cut shortly after Affleck and Lopez split up in real life and their scenes were reshot, reducing her part due to concern over the poor box-office reception of ''[[Gigli]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.viewaskew.com/newboard/messages507/2485.html | title=Come Back, Jason Blair! All is forgiven! | first=Kevin | last=Smith |publisher=View Askew Productions|access-date=June 29, 2018 | date=August 12, 2003}}</ref>

It is the first major theatrical release to include a joke about the [[September 11 attacks]]: when Gertie asks to see [[Cats (musical)|''Cats'']], Ollie refuses on the grounds that it is "the second-worst thing to happen to New York City."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2004-03-21-smith_x.htm | title=Kevin Smith shares the 'Jersey Girl' love | first=Susan | last=Wloszczyna | date=March 21, 2004 | work=[[USA Today]] | publisher=[[Gannett Company]] | access-date=February 14, 2018 | archive-date=July 29, 2004 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040729160150/http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2004-03-21-smith_x.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> On the second episode of the podcast "Blow Hard with [[Malcolm Ingram]]", Smith tells a story of Malcolm sending him lyrics to "[[Landslide (Fleetwood Mac song)|Landslide]]" by [[Fleetwood Mac]], trying to apologize for an earlier incident. He was so touched by the email that he included the song in the soundtrack.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://smodcast.com/blowhard/index.html |title=Blow Hard Episode #2: Blow Harder |work=Blow Hard |first=Malcolm |last=Ingram |publisher=[[SModcast]] |access-date=September 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100907033712/http://smodcast.com/blowhard/index.html |archive-date=September 7, 2010 }}</ref> It is the first major theatrical release to include a joke about the [[September 11 attacks]]: when Gertie asks to see [[Cats (musical)|''Cats'']], Ollie refuses on the grounds that it is "the second-worst thing to happen to New York City."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2004-03-21-smith_x.htm | title=Kevin Smith shares the 'Jersey Girl' love | first=Susan | last=Wloszczyna | date=March 21, 2004 | work=[[USA Today]] | publisher=[[Gannett Company]] | access-date=February 14, 2018 | archive-date=July 29, 2004 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040729160150/http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2004-03-21-smith_x.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> On the second episode of the podcast "Blow Hard with [[Malcolm Ingram]]", Smith tells a story of Malcolm sending him lyrics to "[[Landslide (Fleetwood Mac song)|Landslide]]" by [[Fleetwood Mac]], trying to apologize for an earlier incident. He was so touched by the email that he included the song in the soundtrack.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://smodcast.com/blowhard/index.html |title=Blow Hard Episode #2: Blow Harder |work=Blow Hard |first=Malcolm |last=Ingram |publisher=[[SModcast]] |access-date=September 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100907033712/http://smodcast.com/blowhard/index.html |archive-date=September 7, 2010 }}</ref>

[[Jason Mewes]], who plays Jay in the [[View Askewniverse]] films, was to have a part in the film as "Delivery Guy", but [[Kevin Smith]] had temporarily severed ties with him as part of a "tough love" approach to get him to quit using [[heroin]] following ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' (2001), making this so far the only film in Smith's filmography not to feature him, although archival audio of him is used for animated Jay during the opening "View Askew Productions" production logo. The role was given to [[Matthew Maher (actor)|Matthew Maher]]. [[Jason Mewes]], who plays Jay in the [[View Askewniverse]] films, was to have a part in the film as "Delivery Guy", but [[Kevin Smith]] had temporarily severed ties with him as part of a "tough love" approach to get him to quit using [[heroin]] following ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' (2001), making this so far the only film in Smith's filmography not to feature him, although archival audio of him is used for animated Jay during the opening "View Askew Productions" production logo. The role was given to [[Matthew Maher (actor)|Matthew Maher]]. Line 84: Line 84:

== Release == == Release == The film is Smith's first to have received a [[Motion Picture Association of America film rating system|PG-13 rating]], rather than an R. According to interviews with Smith in the documentary ''[[This Film Is Not Yet Rated]],'' it was originally given an R,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-08-05-smithmovie_N.htm|title=Smith wins appeal for R rating on 'Porno'|website=[[USA Today]]|publisher=[[Gannett Company]]|date=August 5, 2008|agency=Associated Press|access-date=August 21, 2017|archive-date=February 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110205045851/http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-08-05-smithmovie_N.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> due to the dialogue with Ollie and Maya discussing masturbation in the diner, but the decision was overturned. An extended cut was shown at Kevin Smith's private film festival Vulgarthon in 2005 & 2006. The extended version included much more of the Jennifer Lopez section, Ben Affleck's full speech at city hall, a longer ending, and some music changes.{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}} On the film's audio commentary, Smith stated that a longer version would be released within the next year. At a Q&A session in [[Vancouver]] in early 2009, Smith said that a release of the extended cut on DVD and Blu-ray Disc is "very possible”.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsaskew.com/2009/03/29/vancouver-qa-what-we-learned/|title=Vancouver Q&A: What We Learned...|date=April 4, 2009|website=News Askew|first1=Steven|last1=Kirkham|first2=Robert|last2=Jamieson|first3=James|last3=Turner|access-date=August 21, 2017|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404033426/http://www.newsaskew.com/2009/03/29/vancouver-qa-what-we-learned/|archive-date=April 4, 2009}}</ref> In 2023, following [[Paramount Pictures]]’ purchase of Miramax, Smith announced that the extended cut would screen at his theatre ‘Smodcastle Cinemas’ in [[Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey]] as a one-night only event. As of 2025, this cut has not been released publicly.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.joblo.com/kevin-smith-releasing-extended-snyder-cut-of-jersey-girl/|title=Kevin Smith releasing extended "Snyder Cut" of Jersey Girl|date=March 30, 2023|website=[[Joblo.com]]|first=Matthew|last=Plale|access-date=February 24, 2025|archive-date=March 21, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321202444/https://www.joblo.com/kevin-smith-releasing-extended-snyder-cut-of-jersey-girl/|url-status=live}}</ref> The film is Smith's first to have received a [[Motion Picture Association of America film rating system|PG-13 rating]], rather than an R. According to interviews with Smith in the documentary ''[[This Film Is Not Yet Rated]],'' it was originally given an R,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-08-05-smithmovie_N.htm|title=Smith wins appeal for R rating on 'Porno'|website=[[USA Today]]|publisher=[[Gannett Company]]|date=August 5, 2008|agency=Associated Press|access-date=August 21, 2017|archive-date=February 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110205045851/http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-08-05-smithmovie_N.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> due to the dialogue with Ollie and Maya discussing masturbation in the diner, but the decision was overturned. An extended cut was shown at Kevin Smith's private film festival Vulgarthon in 2005 & 2006. The extended version included much more of the Jennifer Lopez section, Ben Affleck's full speech at city hall, a longer ending, and some music changes.{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}} On the film's audio commentary, Smith stated that a longer version would be released within the next year. At a Q&A session in [[Vancouver]] in early 2009, Smith said that a release of the extended cut on DVD and Blu-ray Disc is "very possible”.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsaskew.com/2009/03/29/vancouver-qa-what-we-learned/|title=Vancouver Q&A: What We Learned...|date=April 4, 2009|website=News Askew|first1=Steven|last1=Kirkham|first2=Robert|last2=Jamieson|first3=James|last3=Turner|access-date=August 21, 2017|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404033426/http://www.newsaskew.com/2009/03/29/vancouver-qa-what-we-learned/|archive-date=April 4, 2009}}</ref> In 2023, following [[Paramount Pictures]]’ purchase of Miramax, Smith announced that the extended cut would screen at his theatre ‘Smodcastle Cinemas’ in [[Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey]] as a one-night only event. As of 2025, this cut has not been released publicly.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.joblo.com/kevin-smith-releasing-extended-snyder-cut-of-jersey-girl/|title=Kevin Smith releasing extended "Snyder Cut" of Jersey Girl|date=March 30, 2023|website=[[Joblo.com]]|first=Matthew|last=Plale|access-date=February 24, 2025|archive-date=March 21, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321202444/https://www.joblo.com/kevin-smith-releasing-extended-snyder-cut-of-jersey-girl/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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