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Who, exactly, did they
think was the target audience for this piece of crap? Of course I
wasted my time watching it, but I'm a sucker for bad movies--plus
I thought Jami "Spare a Square" Gertz might get naked. Actually, I
knew that would never happen in this by-the-numbers, girl-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks
story. This is essentially a direct rip of Pretty Woman, which is
in itself a rip of a million other films. Jamie Gertz plays a nice
Italian girl from Weehawken who is looking to break out of her rut.
She has three very Jersey friends, including Janice Soprano, with
whom she hangs out at the local diner. While her friends are satisfied
with their lives of dating guidos and buying hair products at the
mall, she wants to meet a rich "city" guy and be like one of those
"city" girls. Did we mention that Weehawken is like six miles from
Manhattan? In fact, Gertz's character likes to park her multi-colored
VW Bug across the Hudson and stare at the pretty buildings of the
city. It's very sad. Apparently she's never heard of New Jersey Transit.
Anyway, she gets this brilliant idea that she can meet Mr. Right by
going to a Mercedes dealer in Jersey. And who just happens to be in
Jersey to buy a car? That's right; it's a successful, handsome guy
from Manhattan! As expected, she bumps into him and has to give him
a ride and gets his number and... Anyway, he already has a girlfriend
who, of course, is the woman that Gertz wants to become. As expected,
she is controlling and rich. Throw in the unscrupulous co-worker,
and you have the perfect cast from Pretty Woman--although Gertz is
a daycare worker and not a hooker. So, as it turns out, McDermott's
character is a poor Italian guy from Queens who is only rich now through
hard work and the evilness taught to him by the aforementioned co-worker.
His rich girlfriend is from Scarsdale and mentions that her people
and his people are different. This leads to a big fight, and McDermott
realizes that he is more like the Jersey girl than he thinks. He subsequently
gets embarrassed by her lack of class at a classy event, her friends
think she thinks she's too good for them and on and on. I'll give
you two guesses how this thing ends. [HBO]
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