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	Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Jessica Stein is a single, straight, sucessful, journalist, part of a bonded Jewish family living in New York City...
		To call "Kissing Jessica Stein" a lesbian or same-sex romance is a little to boxed-in for me. While "KJS" could be viewed as many things, it is most accurately one of those "free spirit helps straight-laced person break out of his/her shell" movie.
		Much to my delightful surprise, Stein's lesbian experience isn't ultimately to get her to reject men and find love, but to free her- from her own neurosis and perfectionism.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0264761 (968 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) is a U.S. independent romantic comedy starring and written by Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen, and directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld.
		Thirtysomething Jessica Stein (Westfeldt), a Jewish heterosexual journalist, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's 'lonely hearts' advert.
		Jessica and Helen move in together, but their relationship, while good in all other ways, suffers from lesbian bed death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kissing_Jessica_Stein (625 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Kissing Jessica Stein
		Kissing Jessica Stein" is a smart romantic comedy with both an original and interesting storyline, and with believable three-dimensional characters.
		Jessica finds it very difficult to go thru with starting a relationship with a woman but slowly she and Helen fall in love and move in together.
		That Jessica wants to keep the relationship a secret and Helen wants to openly express their romance to all their family, friends and co-workers ultimately results in a crisis with their relationship.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/kissingjessicastein.html (407 words)

	A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		KISSING JESSICA STEIN is a modern romantic comedy that breaks all the rules -- it blurs the lines between friendship and romantic love, and finds the funny, surprising and ultimately poignant overlap between the two.
		Jessica, on the other hand, is looking for the one right shade of lipstick, or more precisely, the one right person.
		Jessica is also very secretive -- not only about the relationship -- but also with everything in her life.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /kissing_jessica.htm (1152 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)
		Jennifer Westfeldt (from TV's Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place) is the Jessica Stein of the title, an editor/journalist and closet painter burdened with a mother (Tovah Feldshuh) who constantly kvetches about the solitary status of her only daughter.
		From the pointed editorial asides discussing word misuse ("Nonplussed means speechless," Jessica lectures a co-worker) to a beautiful scene where Jessica's mom lovingly conveys her acceptance of Helen, the writing evinces and displays a desire to go beyond sitcom-level.
		Jessica is so neurotic in the beginning of the affair that one begins to wonder why Helen doesn't return the calls of other respondents to her ad.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=133777&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (570 words)

	AfterEllen.com - Review of Kissing Jessica Stein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Their relationship eventually hits the rocks when Helen realizes that Jessica's not as into the sexual aspect of the relationship as she is. Along the way, however, the viewer is treated to a thoughtful, warm, and funny drama about the line between romance and friendship, and how difficult it is sometimes to draw it.
		Jessica is the kind of woman few heterosexual people want to know about - the woman who is basically straight but has had the occasional dalliance with another woman.
		Jessica is seduced by the best-friend quality she finds in Helen that she has been unable to find with a man, and she mistakes fleeting moments of sexual attraction for the enduring kind.
	www.afterellen.com /Movies/kissingjessicastein.html (490 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Kissing Jessica Stein at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It will become clear to some people that Kissing Jessica Stein, despite the fact that most of the kissing is done by two women, was not created by a militant “gay” filmmaker.
		Jessica shows Helen a handout dealing with lesbian accessories, and the two romance almost like this is a test to see if they are really lesbian, rather than as if they really were lesbians.
		It’s just who she is. Jessica herself is the heart of the movie, and, while it does take a while to get used to her, once you do get used to her, you start to like her.
	www.epinions.com /content_78431620740 (1328 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein
		Kissing Jessica Stein is the light, breezy romantic comedy that all movie makers hope to make but often miss somehow.
		Thankfully, Kissing Jessica Stein does not fall into the typical pitfalls of conventional romantic comedy, and also does not fall into the constant whining of the gay and lesbian movie subgenre.
		Jessica is happy, and everybody around her sees this, especially Josh.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/kissing_jessica_stein.html (428 words)

	KISSING JESSICA STEIN/ **1/2
		Jessica Stein is tired of trying to find the right man. She's done the relationship thing, and found that it ends in bitterness; she's done the singles thing, and found that it pairs her with dorks.
		The way these personalities complement each other is interesting: Jessica (Heather Juergensen) is scatty and nervous, drifting between half-sure defences of her thoughts and embarrassed moments in which she rambles and lets her voice turn all Minnie Mouse.
		But "Kissing Jessica Stein" just never takes off -- remove the homosexual gimmick, and this is a soft little romantic comedy, nothing very special, with all of the standard dilemmas and payoffs.
	www.ukcritic.com /jessicastein.html (434 words)

	"Kissing Jessica Stein" - Salon
		And like single women everywhere, Jessica is on the verge of being branded with that most damning label: "Just too picky." Jessica has polished honey-blond good looks that allow her to seem at home both uptown and down; she's so just-in-the-middle that she fits into every landscape and none at the same time.
		Jessica, skittish about even the possibility that she might be attracted to a woman, doesn't respond well to Helen's touchy-feely speech about her devotion to yoga.
		Jessica needs to spend lots of time just kissing Helen in order to get used to the idea; Helen is eager to go further, faster.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2002/03/15/kissing/index.html (1362 words)

	Amazon.ca: Kissing Jessica Stein: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) seems to be channeling Woody Allen (in his "Annie Hall" days), as a neurotic, Jewish, single woman who is not having much success dating.
		Jessica is interested in Helen, but has to move very slowly in becoming physical because of her inhibitions and fears.
		Jessica's neurosis is toned down, but we do see that her choices have something to do with how her dating life has turned out.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007CVYC (874 words)

	The very heterosexual Kissing Jessica Stein. By Kate Taylor
		Jessica, like Tracy, has to undergo a kind of rebirth, a re-enactment of her loss of innocence.
		Jessica Stein is concerned about a very different kind of inequality, which seems to be the disproportionate stigma it sees attached to single women.
		Jessica is Hollywood's stereotypical singleton, driven to the edge, and almost over it, by her horrible dates and her mother's constant nagging.
	www.slate.com /?id=2063919 (836 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Quickly approaching 30 without a fiancÃ© in sight, Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) is at the mercy of the New York City dating scene.
		One dinner-party scene is particularly effective: After Jessica relates her tales of dating woe, her co-worker Josh (Scott Cohen) questions her negative attitude and delivers the final blow with a quote from Anais Nin: "We do not see things as they are.
		And when Jessica condemns a group of dancing Hare Krishnas for having no goals, Helen defends their quest for enlightenment, saying, "What do you do to be happy?" Jessica replies, "I don't; I'm not." Adding further texture are phenomenal supporting performances by Cohen, Tovah Feldshuh as Jessica's mother, and Jackie Hoffman as Jessica's co-worker Joan.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=133777 (1543 words)

	Political Film Society - Kissing Jessica Stein
		The film begins to delineate the character of journalistic copyeditor Jessica as she is underwhelmed while meeting men in response to a personals ad, presumably under pressure from her mother Judy (played by Tovah Feldshuh), who has invited countless men over to dinner so that she will find an acceptable husband for her hard-to-please daughter.
		When Jessica arrives at a bar to meet Helen, she almost immediately tries to run out, realizing that she is venturing into an unintended Lesbian encounter, but Helen persists, the two get better acquainted, Helen patiently allows Jessica to come out sexually, and the two move in together as lovers.
		Kissing Jessica Stein may serve to explain what some thirtysomething professional women are now experiencing in the more cosmopolitan corners of America, as well as gay men who experience the same pattern in their lives.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/jessicastein.html (421 words)

	'Kissing Jessica Stein'
		"Kissing Jessica Stein" is easier than outing her -- or handling her once she's been kissed and outed.
		Jessica does so with a studious approach, nervously sharing her discoveries as they materialize, e.g.: "I was surprised to learn that lesbians accessorize." Helen is patient but gradually aware she has fallen in love with a Jewish Sandra Dee.
		Jessica's "Kissing," in the end, takes no political position -- correct or incorrect --on the gay-straight subject, just a firm one on the special intimacy of female friendship.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20020405stein6.asp (495 words)

	Review: Kissing Jessica Stein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Meanwhile, at her office, where Jessica works as a proofreader, she has to deal with her ex-lover (Scott Cohen), whose frequent put-downs and pugnacious nature may hide feelings that he is unwilling to admit.
		Kissing Jessica Stein has been called a "lesbian Annie Hall", and, while such a description is too facile, it's easy to understand its origins.
		Kissing Jessica Stein is a little over one and one-half hours long, but I wouldn't have minded a little longer running length.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/k/kissing_jessica.html (824 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In Jessica’s case, she decides it’s time for something really drastic, so she answers a “women seeking women” personal ad placed by Helen Cooper, an art gallery owner who, after a long string of sexual relationships with men, is ready to explore her lesbian feelings.
		Kissing Jessica Stein is one of the most delightful films to come along in quite awhile.
		That aside, Kissing Jessica Stein is an incredibly funny and touching film, with winning performances by Jennifer Westfeldt as Jessica, and Heather Juergensen as Helen, both of whom find their lives permanently transformed by allowing themselves to explore.
	www.classicsondvd.com /jessica.htm (384 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein
		Helen is everything that the uptight, neurotic Jessica is not--she's aggressive, free-spirited, and very much in touch with her sexual side.
		Jessica decides to give the relationship a whirl, but she soon realizes that she is in over her head with some pretty complex issues.
		"Kissing Jessica Stein" deals with gay issues in a broad and commercially appealing way so that mainstream moviegoers will be able to embrace it.
	www.moviemantz.com /movie_reviews/302/jessica_stein.html (532 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Kissing Jessica Stein [2002]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The subsequent closet relationship progresses from unsure trepidation (on Jessica's part) to a full-scale lesbian affair that generates a "guess who's coming to dinner" tension when Jessica brings Helen, a shikse, to meet her family gathered together for her brother's wedding.
		However, except for one poignant heart-to-heart between Jessica and her mother, the emotional depths and pitfalls of a relationship with a same-sex lover are barely plumbed.
		Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) is a nice, young Jewish girl who cannot find herself a man. Based on the montage of some of the worst (and funniest) first dates in history, a reasonable course of action would be for Jessica to just stop looking.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006681T (1601 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein
		In fact, Jessica Stein herself is the movie's main character, and it is the movie that can't stop bussing her.
		After Jessica finishes grimacing at all the grotesque men in the Big Apple, she answers an ad placed by a trendy, dissatisfied straight woman named Helen who decides to raise her chances of romantic fulfillment by, shall we say, expanding the parameters of her search.
		Jessica is a catastrophe: she is as neurotic, egotistical, ungracious, and cruelly effacing toward her new female partner as she was to all the men previously entertained as possible beaux.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /kissjess.html (715 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein - Movie Review
		In the latest iteration of the gay romantic comedy genre, Kissing Jessica Stein explores the world of bisexuality and centers on the various topics of telling your Jewish mother that you enjoy the taste of women and how to mix three shades of lipstick properly to the land the perfect girl.
		Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) is a middle-class and neurotic twentysomething Jewish girl, a strange mix of Lisa Kudrow’s character Phoebe from Friends and Woody Allen circa the 1970s, stuck with major insecurity issues concerning the opposite sex and her abilities as an artist.
		Stein gives up… until a quote in a women-seeking-women ad in a local rag perks her interest.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/kissingjessicastein (481 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein Movie Review - MovieWeb
		The movie goes on like this, shifting in waves, until it comes to the ultimate conclusion that, even though Jessica Stein went digging for change in Miss Cooper's sugar wallet, she is not a homosexual and should not pretend to be one.
		In dating Jessica, she is simply "testing" the waters that gush about the inner thigh in high tide.
		Kissing Jessica Stein is like a juvenile High School debate where the opposing side doesn't get to stand up and give its final summation.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/film/72/272/review356.php (1293 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Kissing Jessica Stein'
		Jessica Stein is vaguely a painter; her day job is copy-editing a newspaper.
		Jessica is just experimenting with women: the relationship is a good friendship but is not happening in bed.
		Kissing Jessica Stein (R; 94 min.), directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, written by Heather Juergensen and Jennifer Westfeldt, photographed by Lawrence Shur and starring Juergensen and Westfeldt, plays at Camera 3 and Centurty 25 in San Jose and the CinéArts in Palo Alto.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.14.02/kissing-0211.html (561 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein - Rotten Tomatoes
		KISSING JESSICA STEIN: Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) is a lovely young conservative Jewish girl with the perfect loft situated on New York City's Upper West Side, a fun job working for a hip newspaper, and beautiful clothes.
		Kissing Jessica Stein is your standard romantic comedy, only better: Twice the chicks and half the guys.
		More than anything else, Kissing Jessica Stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genre, which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake Sleepless in Seattle again and again.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/kissing_jessica_stein (919 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein
		Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt), the movie’s sexually experimental hero, is a neurotic Jewish copy editor and an in-the-closet artist who’s fed up with dating the illiterate, frugal, and otherwise homosexual men she is constantly being set up with.
		Stein may illustrate some of the finer points of living as a lesbian, initially a factor in developing a homosexual audience, but just as the queers in the back of the theatre begin to weep at the movie’s ‘truth,’ it’s plot takes a turn for the worst.
		Kissing Jessica Stein is a picture that presents every lesbian’s nightmare under the guise of an intellectually stimulating, colorful comedy.
	www.acidemic.com /id23.html (859 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The guys in the newspaper office stare longingly at Jessica Stein’s swinging hips as she sashays across the room.
		Jessica (Westfeldt) is a woman who can’t take it anymore — she hasn’t had a decent date in a year, and even her little Jewish grandmother says, "You could do better.
		Jessica, with her neurotic Jewish humor, is the perfect foil for Helen’s lesbian cool.
	www.citylinkmagazine.com /lester/032002lester1.html (489 words)

	Kissing Jessica Stein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) is a journalist who has a problem with men.
		Stein is a very personal dialogue on the nature of relationships, good and bad, straight and otherwise; on the risks of undertaking a relationship; and on the challenges of explaining to family, friends and co-workers that you've decided to follow a somewhat different course in life.
		Kissing Jessica Stein, for which Wesfeldt shares writing honors, is less about lesbianism than it is about coming out.
	www.rambles.net /kiss_stein01.html (491 words)

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