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''My First Mister'' is a 2001 {{Dramedy}} directed by Creator/ChristineLahti and starring Creator/AlbertBrooks, Creator/LeeleeSobieski, Creator/DesmondHarrington, Creator/CarolKane, Creator/MichaelMCKean and Creator/JohnGoodman.
The plot involves a typical high-school goth named Jennifer "J" Wilson (Sobieski) going to work for a lonely, middle-aged clothing store manager, Randall "R" Harris (Brooks) and the two of them soon striking up a friendship that appears to [[PrecociousCrush develop into something more.]] Eventually, the two learn some secrets about one another, that range from shocking to ultimately tragic.
The plot involves a typical high-school goth named Jennifer "J" Wilson (Sobieski) going to work for a lonely, middle-aged clothing store manager, Randall "R" Harris (Brooks) and the two of them soon striking up a friendship that appears to [[PrecociousCrush develop into something more.]] Eventually, the two learn some secrets about one another, that range from shocking to ultimately tragic.
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''My First Mister'' is a 2001{{Dramedy}} American {{dramedy}} film directed by Creator/ChristineLahti and starring Creator/AlbertBrooks, Creator/LeeleeSobieski, Creator/DesmondHarrington, Creator/CarolKane, Creator/MichaelMCKean Creator/MichaelMcKean, Creator/JohnGoodman, Creator/HenryBrown, and Creator/JohnGoodman.
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The plot involves a typical high-schoolgoth {{goth}} named Jennifer "J" Wilson (Sobieski) going to work for a lonely, middle-aged clothing store manager, Randall "R" Harris (Brooks) and the two of them soon striking up a friendship that appears to [[PrecociousCrush develop into something more.]] Eventually, the two learn some secrets about one another, that range from shocking to ultimately tragic.
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* TheTopicOfCancer: [[spoiler:R has been living with cancer for several years and is terminally ill,]] something that J had no idea of until [[spoiler:he collapses.]]]]
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* OddFriendship: Between angry goth teenager J and stuffy, by-the-book middle-aged manager R. On surface and at the beginning of the film, they have nothing in common, but eventually strike up a kinship.
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* NotSoStoic: J. While the first half of the film has her as a typical, indifferent goth, once she grows closer to R [[spoiler:and namely after his cancer battle makes his health take a turn for the worse,]] she is far more concerned about life and those in it.
* OddFriendship: Between angry goth teenager J and stuffy, by-the-book middle-aged manager R. On surface and at the beginning of the film, they have nothing in common, but but eventually strike up a kinship.
* OddFriendship: Between angry goth teenager J and stuffy, by-the-book middle-aged manager R. On surface and at the beginning of the film, they have nothing in common, but but eventually strike up a kinship.
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* FellAsleepDriving: Defied. When on a road trip with Randall's son Randy to [[spoiler:say goodbye to him before he passes from leukemia,]] both Randy and J eat coffee grounds to stay awake as well as other entertaining hijinks in their travels.
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* OddFriendship: Between angry goth teenager J and stuffy, by-the-book middle-aged manager R. On surface and at the beginning of the film, they have nothing in common, but eventually strike up a kinship.
* TookALevelInIdealism: J, definitely. She was initially an angry goth with little interest in anything, be it life, school or her parents. Upon meeting and befriending R [[spoiler:and learning that he was ill,]] she begins to take life more seriously, mens her broken relationships with her folks and [[spoiler:search for R's son Randy, who also gains idealism by the film's end.]]
* TookALevelInIdealism: J, definitely. She was initially an angry goth with little interest in anything, be it life, school or her parents. Upon meeting and befriending R [[spoiler:and learning that he was ill,]] she begins to take life more seriously, mens her broken relationships with her folks and [[spoiler:search for R's son Randy, who also gains idealism by the film's end.]]
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''My First Mister'' is a 2001 {{Dramedy}} directed by Creator/ChristineLahti and starring Creator/AlbertBrooks, Creator/LeeleeSobieski, Creator/DesmondHarrington, Creator/CarolKane, Creator/MichaelMCKean and Creator/JohnGoodman.
The plot involves a typical high-school goth named Jennifer "J" Wilson (Sobieski) going to work for a lonely, middle-aged clothing store manager, Randall "R" Harris (Brooks) and the two of them soon striking up a friendship that appears to [[PrecociousCrush develop into something more.]] Eventually, the two learn some secrets about one another, that range from shocking to ultimately tragic.
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* TheCynic: R's [[spoiler:son Randy, Jr., and with good reason; his single mother died from cancer six months prior to the film's events and his father, who was told by the mother that had died before he was born, was not dead but would soon die after meeting him.]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Between the teenaged J and her middle-aged boss R.
* LoveRedeems: Of the platonic variety: the friendship between J and R inspires the former to resolve with her parents and the latter to [[spoiler:reach out to his long-lost son.]]
* MaybeEverAfter: The ending implies that J and [[spoiler:Randy will become a couple after R's death.]]
* TheTopicOfCancer: [[spoiler:R has been living with cancer for several years and is terminally ill,]] something that J had no idea of until [[spoiler:he collapses.]]
The plot involves a typical high-school goth named Jennifer "J" Wilson (Sobieski) going to work for a lonely, middle-aged clothing store manager, Randall "R" Harris (Brooks) and the two of them soon striking up a friendship that appears to [[PrecociousCrush develop into something more.]] Eventually, the two learn some secrets about one another, that range from shocking to ultimately tragic.
!!Tropes:
* TheCynic: R's [[spoiler:son Randy, Jr., and with good reason; his single mother died from cancer six months prior to the film's events and his father, who was told by the mother that had died before he was born, was not dead but would soon die after meeting him.]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Between the teenaged J and her middle-aged boss R.
* LoveRedeems: Of the platonic variety: the friendship between J and R inspires the former to resolve with her parents and the latter to [[spoiler:reach out to his long-lost son.]]
* MaybeEverAfter: The ending implies that J and [[spoiler:Randy will become a couple after R's death.]]
* TheTopicOfCancer: [[spoiler:R has been living with cancer for several years and is terminally ill,]] something that J had no idea of until [[spoiler:he collapses.]]
