Offbeat friendship is provocative, dark, but sweet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2015

Terrible script, terrible plot, clichs and plot holes galore...

| Apr 29, 2009

The actors earn the couple of salty drops you may shed at the end -- the script sure doesn't.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 25, 2008

Actress Lahti's feature directorial debut is a disappointingly sappy melodrama about the unlikely bond between a rebebllious high-school grad (Leelee Sobieski) and a dying older man (Albert Brooks).

| Original Score: C | Jan 29, 2007

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A beautiful story about finding camaraderie, and ultimate love in the infrequent of places

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 7, 2003

...while Ghost World is, on the whole, a slightly better movie, My First Mister is nevertheless worth checking out mostly due to two incredible lead performances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Starts out as a deliriously original "odd couple" comedy, and then hangs a quick left turn into shameless tear jerking.

Full Review | Original Score: 68/100 | May 9, 2002

A good small movie featuring a different kind of love story..

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 24, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 5, 2002

The calculated sappiness does succeed in provoking a heightened reaction--but resentment and disgust is surely not what they had in mind.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 3, 2002

A woefully underdeveloped story populated by unbelievable characters.

| Dec 9, 2001

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 27, 2001

There's a terrific movie somewhere inside Christine Lahti's My First Mister, but it's kept hidden by the trite trappings of a Lifetime movie-of- the-week.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 13, 2001

She's not just tattooed and surly and he's not just geeky and stern - their characters are beautifully written and fleshed out gradually and admirably by the actors.

Full Review | Original Score: 5 | Oct 30, 2001

Brooks and Sobieski shine throughout.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2001

A testament to both Sobieski and Brooks -- especially Brooks, who is Oscar-worthy here -- that we buy into their film's manipulative tendencies and its demands of unconditional acceptance.

| Oct 28, 2001

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 28, 2001

It will have you smiling so much, that you may not even notice how close it comes to sliding into mediocrity.

| Oct 26, 2001