Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) on Netflix
Jessica Stein, a copy editor in New York, endures blind dates arranged by her mother and answers a women-seeking-women personal ad. Helen Cooper, an art gallery assistant director, placed it.
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- Rotten Tomatoes83%
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Plot summary
Jessica Stein is twenty-eight and works as a copy editor at a New York newspaper. Her brother Dan has just become engaged, and their mother Judy, afraid that Jessica will be left on her own, keeps arranging blind dates with men that do not go well. In the women-seeking-women column, Jessica spots a personal ad quoting a line by Rilke that she loves, and she writes back. The ad is from Helen Cooper, an art gallery assistant director who has grown tired of sex with men and, at the urging of her gay friends, has decided to try dating women. Jessica meets her, gets nervous and leaves, and Helen follows and talks her into staying for a drink.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Kissing Jessica Stein screened at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival the day before and the day after the 9/11 attacks, and the September 12 audience gasped at the sight of the World Trade Center. Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen then cut the nine or ten scenes featuring the Twin Towers.
- Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen's 1997 six-night Off-Broadway sketch play Lipschtick was optioned by Interscope Communications to become a film, but after two years the option expired in 1999 and the pair made Kissing Jessica Stein independently.
