Film

My First Mister

Name: My First Mister
Director: Christine Lahti
Released: 2001
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Albert Brooks, Leelee Sobieski, John Goodman, Carol Kane, Desmond Harrington

2001 · 109 min · ★ 6.6 · Dir. Christine Lahti

Mismatched. Misguided. Unmistakably friends.

Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Albert Brooks plays a man who is her total opposite, a precise and well-ordered menswear store owner of forty-nine who manages limited expectations and protects lonely secrets with pleasant ritual and quiet, ironic reserve. These two total opposites collide in conflict then come together in a surprising alliance, changing each other's lives forever.