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Box office. $10 million [1] Kissing Jessica Stein is a 2001 American independent romantic comedy film, written and co-produced by the film's stars, Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen. The film also stars Tovah Feldshuh and is directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld. It is one of the earlier film appearances of actors Jon Hamm and Michael ...
Heather Juergensen and Jennifer Westfeldt open up to TODAY Show about the 2002 lesbian rom-com “Kissing Jessica Stein" in tandem with its 20th anniversary.
1997–present. Partner (s) Jon Hamm (1997–2015) Jennifer Westfeldt (born February 2, 1970) [ 1 ][ 2 ] is an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. She is best known for co-writing, co-producing, and starring in the 2002 indie film Kissing Jessica Stein, [ 3 ] for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First ...
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The result was the award-winning film Kissing Jessica Stein. [4] She has written screenplays/teleplays for Miramax, Warner Brothers, ABC, VH-1 and CBS, among others. Her first foray into writing for herself as an actress was her 1996 one-woman show Letters to Ben Stein, an imaginary tale of an epistolary romance with the actor/economist. [2] [5]
‘Kissing Jessica Stein’ (2001) Surrounded by married and engaged couples, a single New Yorker sets out to please her Jewish mother by going on a dating spree to find the right guy.
Feldshuh's feature-film appearances have included Lady in the Water, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, A Walk on the Moon, Happy Accidents, Brewster's Millions, The Idolmaker, The Blue Iguana, A Day in October, The Believer, Love Comes Lately, Just My Luck, and Kissing Jessica Stein. She also appeared as Ruthie in the 2004 film The Tollbooth.
The screenplay, written by Natalie Cooper, is an adaptation of the 1964 lesbian novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule. Set in Reno, Nevada in 1959, it tells the story of a university professor awaiting a divorce who finds her true self through a relationship with another, more self-confident woman.