My First Mister

My First Mister

Mismatched. Misguided. Unmistakably friends.

2001109 min6.5 / 10

A character-driven comedy-drama about two lonely misfits—a rebellious teenage girl and a reserved middle-aged man—who form an unlikely, transformative friendship that heals their respective wounds.

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.

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