Jersey Girl (2004) Ben Affleck Ollie Trinke Liv Tyler Maya George Carlin Bart Trinke Stephen Root Greenie Mike Starr Block Raquel Castro Gertie Trinke Jason Biggs Arthur Brickman Jennifer Lopez Gertrude Steiney Jason Lee PR Exec #1 Matt Damon PR Exec #2 S. Epatha Merkerson Doctor #1 Jennifer Schwalbach-Smith Susan Betty Aberlin Teacher Matt McFarland Boy #1 Sarah Stafford Girl #1 Paulie Litowsky Bryan Directed by: Kevin Smith Produced by: Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Jon Gordon Ollie Trinke is a smooth and successful Manhattan music publicist who seems to have it all. When his perfect life is suddenly tragically upended--leaving him as a single father unqualified for the role-- he snaps. Before long Ollie's big city life is a memory. Out of a job and out of luck, he reluctantly moves in with his father back home to New Jersey where he was raised. It is the lowest point in his life. Just ask him. The years pass and with them Ollie's plans for his future. Stuck in an unexciting, deadend job, he sees no way out and no way back to the life he used to love. But he adores his young daughter Gertie, and she loves their life in the 'burbs. To her, Jersey is paradise. While renting Gertie's favorite movie for the zillionth time one day, Ollie meets Maya, who challenges his priorities and perspective. He begins to realize that sometimes you have to forget about who you thought you were, accept who you are and acknowledge what makes you happy. ========== Ollie Trinkie is a publicist, who has a great girlfriend, Gertrude, whom he marries and they are expecting a baby but while he is looking forward to being a father, he doesn't lighten his workload. Gertrude gives birth but dies in the process. Ollie doesn't live up to his responsibilities as a father. Eventually the strain and pressure of losing his wife and being a father gets to him and he has breakdown, which leads to his termination. So with nothing much to do he tries to be good father to his daughter, Gertie. He also meets a young woman name Maya, who likes him but he is still not over his wife. ========== In New York, the young executive Oliver "Ollie" Trinke is a successful PR of the music industry. He meets and falls in love for Gertrude Steiney, who soon gets pregnant. However, she dies in the childbirth and Ollie decides to return to his father's home in New Jersey. Pressed by the situation of lonely father, the workaholic Ollie blows-up in an important press conference and makes a fatal statement, losing his job and becoming blacklisted in his publicist career. He promises to be the "best father in the world" to the young Gertie, and stays single, grieving his beloved wife, without dating any woman for seven years and trying to retrieve a position of public relation. One day, he meets the rental clerk Maya, they become friends and she helps him to supersede his past life. ========== When a work-a-holic man becomes a father and loses his wife in one fell swoop, he does what any man would do, he pawns the kid off on his father and buries himself in his work. But when his father decides that it's time that he shoulder his responsibilities, he learns what it means to be a dad. ========== Ollie Trinke is expecting a baby with his new wife, Gertrude. When the baby arrives, Gertrude has an aneurysm and passes away after the birth of their new baby daughter Gertrude "Gerti" Trinke. He is forced to live with his father while raising little Gerti. After Gertrude's death, problems occur with Ollie at his job. After getting fired, Ollie's life changes after he meets a video store clerk and Gerti's life is struggling while her father is at a new job. Then later, Ollie learns that your family matters more to you in life. ========== Ollie is a big time publicist in New York, with his wife Gertie, who is expecting a baby. During the birth of her daughter, Gertie dies and Ollie finds himself in a state of anger and depression. Who continues to keep plugging away at his job but after saying some things at a Will Smith appearance he is fired and ends up living with his father Ollie Sr. ========== Ollie is a top of his game N.Y publicist. He has a perfect life with a beautiful wife and a baby on the way. Suddenly things go astray and Ollie finds himself jobless and a single father. He's forced to move in with his father. Things start to look up for him when he meets another great girl and her daughter and learns that life sometimes throws you a few different directions and you can't choose the path you're given.