Jennifer Lopez as Gertie Steiney-Trinké, Ollie's first wife who died when she gave birth to baby Gertie.George Carlin as Bart Trinké, Ollie's father, who helps Ollie with Gertie.Raquel Castro as Gertie Trinké, Ollie's daughter who is named after Ollie's late wife and Maya's friend.
Liv Tyler as Maya Harding, a graduate student at college who works at the video store, Ollie's new girlfriend and a mother figure to little Gertie.Ben Affleck as Ollie Trinké, the single father of little Gertie who lost his wife after the birth of his daughter.He then says that he thought he did, but he loves his new life more because being a father to her was the only thing that he was ever really good at. She asks why he did so if he loved it so much. He holds her in his arms and says that they are staying in New Jersey because he decided to not take the job. He and Maya hint at possible feelings for each other before Gertie interrupts them. The film ends with him, Gertie, Bart, Maya, and the rest celebrating at the bar. Ollie rushes to make it to Gertie's Sweeney Todd performance at the last moment. Smith is unaware who Ollie is, but their conversation about work and children persuades Ollie to skip the interview and leave. While waiting to be interviewed, he has a chance encounter with Will Smith. A few days later they finally reconcile, apologizing for their hurtful words, and she accepts that they will be moving to New York City. He immediately tries to apologize, but the damage is done as she angrily pushes him away and tearfully runs to her room. He claims he hates her too, and says she and her mother took his life away and he just wants it back, which shocks everyone. She angrily yells at him for putting himself before her again, saying she hates him and that she wishes he had died instead of her mother.
The prospect of moving back to New York City creates tension among Ollie, Gertie, Bart, and Maya, especially when he says that his interview is on the same day as Gertie's school talent show. He contacts Arthur, his one-time protégé, who sets up a promising interview. His successful and enjoyable interaction with them makes him realize how much he misses public relations work. She soon enters their lives.Īs part of his job in the borough, Ollie speaks to a group of outraged citizens to win over their approval for a major public works project that will temporarily close a street in the neighborhood. At the video store, they meet Maya, a graduate student and one of the clerks, whose uninhibited probing into Ollie's love life almost leads to them having sex. Seven years later, Gertie, now in elementary school, often coaxes him to rent films to watch. He eventually apologizes for ignoring Gertie and attributes his public outburst to his grief.īlacklisted by all of New York City's public relations firms, Ollie has to work as a civil servant in the borough where he now lives. He is consequently fired and moves back in with Bart in New Jersey. Stressed by a botched diaper change and a crying baby, he insults his client, Will Smith, in front of assembled reporters. To avoid his grief, he buries himself in his work and ignores his new daughter, Gertie, while his father, Bart, whose own wife died many years earlier, takes a month off from work to take care of her, later returning to work to force his son to live up to his responsibility as a single parent. Powerful New York City media publicist Ollie Trinké's wife, Gertrude, dies during childbirth due to an aneurysm.
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