Genre: Drama, Comedy, Coming Of Age, Teenage, Suspense, School / Campus, Doctor
Tagline: Mismatched. Misguided. Unmistakably friends.
Plot: Jennifer (Leelee Sobieski) is seventeen, just graduated from high school in a ceremony she made certain not to attend. With her multiple piercings, all-black wardrobe and frequent cemetery visits, Jennifer works hard to keep the world at a distance. She has devised her own individual goth/punk disguise to protect the lonely girl inside. Yet her cynicism is only skin deep, masking a deep sense that she is not worth loving. Fascinated with death because she is afraid of life, Jennifer is more innocent and more in need than she would ever dare let on.With all her rebel street girl pose, Jennifer still lives at home, engaged in constant battle with her chirpy musical-comedy obsessed mother Sylvie (Carol Kane). Scarred by divorce and scared of the changes her daughter is undergoing, Sylvie relies on near-terminal optimism as a defense mechanism. Jennifer's hippie dad Ben (John Goodman) moved out a long time ago and steers clear of any real involvement in his daughter's life. A sense of humor is Jennifer's saving grace, demonstrated in the self-deprecating sharpness of her journals. ("My clothes are not all black. Some of them are blue. Sometimes I wear them together so I look like a bruise.") Randall (Albert Brooks) stands in complete contrast -- a precise, well-ordered
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 | John Goodman
The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Monsters, Inc. |
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 | Carol Kane
The Princess Bride, Annie Hall, Dog Day Afternoon |
 | Michael McKean
This Is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Planes, Trains & Automobiles |
 | Mary Kay Place
Being John Malkovich, Girl, Interrupted, Sweet Home Alabama |
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