Dylan Mcdermott fans must see this movie. The characters are not terribly complex or dynamic, but who cares....ITS A CHICK FLICK! Toby and Sal are sweet and romantic and if your a lover of girl movies, this one is a must see. Warm hearted and makes for a great stay at home movie night.

I saw this movie a few years ago and I loved it , and it gave me all these butterflies.I saw it again today and it still has the same effect on me, as a matter of fact I felt it more and more, and yes it still DOES give me butterflies,just watching it. It didn't differ, I thought it would be like everything else in life, you remember it better than it really was, but it was just as good.Basically it's a love story about 2 different people who aren't really as different as they think , a Jersy girl who always dreams of the city and moving up and a city boy who was once from the Bronx and did move up and would do anything to never go back. It's romantic, sweet, funny, and heartfelt. I think it's most girls fairy tale in real life setting. It'll either make you feel good or it'll make you want to cry, but either way it's great Friday night movie.

I can't think or a more trite plot than this film. Nothing but cliches and stereotypes in the oldest poor girl meets arogant boy story. Yet, this was something that was touching, sensitive and if I dare say, transcendent.

Jami Gertz portrayal of Toby was perfection. The rest of the casting was also perfectly on target. Shucks, even the pre-schooler who told Toby that the "boys were being nuts" was terrific.

I suppose direction had much to do with the effectiveness of this film. Each character only existed in the context of their relationships with other characters. They were individuals, but they were never more than who they were in the film.

This was a rare and beautiful piece of work.

I just saw this movie for the first time yesterday and I must say it was SWEET! I absolutely adored it - romantic, funny and with a great ending. PLUS - girls - super Practice hottie Dylan McDermott is the leading man...WHO could ask for more????? Two thumbs up!

Jersey Girl is a great romantic comedy. The tagline calls it a Cinderella Story With Big Hair and that it is, but Jamie Gertz's Tobey gets the man of her dreams without the help of a fairy godmother. Tobey lives in New Jersey and dreams of a better life that doesn't include her dead end job and evenings at the Bendix diner with her girlfriends. She thinks she'll find that better life by picking up a guy at the local Mercedes dealer...see the movie to find out what happens. As the opening credit song states "Jersey Groove, She's got a Jersey Groove"

First I don't see why people are being hard on this film me personally I loved it the first time when I saw it I was only 14 and today am 27 and I still can't get over this film.Dylan McDermott is hot as ever and he plays his character really well and Jami Gertz is perfect in this role and every time I see this film I get a lot of emotion. seriously this movie is great its a love story about two people from different world who meets and falls in love. so please give this movie a chance I recommender to those who are sensitive its a nice love story with a happy ending. so that is why I give it a 10 out of 10 I still get goosebumps when I watch it

The original Jersey Girl is my favorite movie. Dylan McDermott (Sal) is so hot in this movie with his big blue eyes. Jami Gertz (Toby) is just phenomenal in this movie. My favorite part in this movie is the end: when Sal wrecks his Mercedes to prove to Toby that he does truly love her and wants to be with her. If a guy did that to show me he really did care about me, I'd be all over him. I remember first seeing this movie when I was around 10 years old. At that moment, I fell in love with romantic movies. This is a movie that I would watch whenever I could get a chance; that's why I bought the DVD. lol. I'm going to make my boyfriend sit down and watch this movie with me. I think he'd like it. My boyfriend said he'd sit down and watch chick flicks with me. A girl can only hope, right????

On the surface of it, this movie is nothing special. However, there is something about the direction and the perfect casting that sways you to believe it. There are moments when you are wondering where the story will lead (but you're usually wrong) and the whole focus is on something that touches us all, whether we're from New Jersey, New York, London or Namibia: class, upbringing, love and prejudice, friendship, loyalty, and truth. Toby (Jami Gertz) plays a straightforward, if somewhat naive, go-getter with a big heart, and manages to steer clear of our disbelief, perhaps anchored somewhat by her down-to-earth girl buddies. The romance is touching, the bitter conflict of Sal's (Dylan McDermott) 'correct' relationship is deftly portrayed, and, sorry, but I have to say it, Gertz's beauty is dominant (but hey, I'm just a bloke). Lightweight with a Big Message for us all.

I find the movie "Jersey Girl" quite entertaining. I first saw it when I was sad and depressed. After seeing it, I wasn't sad anymore. It uplifted my thoughts and feelings, and I fell in love with the movie. I'd even go one step further and say, I think it is better than Dirty Dancing. Now, Dirty Dancing was my favorite all-time video, but, after seeing Jersey Girl, I switched gears. I recommend this video to any girl who is feeling down in the dumps. I'd also like to add that Dylan McDermott in this movie is H-O-T-T, HOT!!!!!!!!!! Girls, you even get to see a glimpse of his butt. I recommend this movie. As a matter of fact, my boyfriend and I are going to rent this movie tonight. I recommend this movie.

Here's the odd thing about this quirky little film -- its "happy ending" completely undercuts the happy ending the heroine is looking for.

Toby (Gertz) is a Jersey Girl looking for a GQ kind of guy -- a non-Guido with money, nice clothes and good manners who will take her away from it all. Sal (McDermott) is a Queens Guy who's made it big in Manhattan and is dating Social Register material. Toby wants Sal, Sal wants Society, but in the end Toby and Sal get each other. But what happens in order for this to occur? Sal trashes his well-paying career, is humiliated by his girlfriend, intentionally wrecks the Mercedes that first caught Toby's eye,and probably won't long be hanging on to that nice apartment overlooking Central Park. He rejects what it takes to be Manhattan material in order to be with his Jersey Girl -- he re-embraces his Queens roots.

So how does this make him different than the Guidos Toby has been fleeing in the first place? Are we supposed to believe that they're what she really wanted all along, now that she's ended up with one?

The toughest thing about this for me was the endless cliche about what Jersey Girls are like in the first place. I defy anyone to find a 20-something in, say, Short Hills NJ who would dress, act, talk, think like the stereotypes depicted in the film. It's a movie about Jersey Girls with a kind of Philip Roth-like self-hatred about being from Jersey. Toby isn't smarter or more stylish than her friends -- she just wants someone with money. That is supposed to ennoble her? In the end, she doesn't get the guy with the money anyway -- perhaps as fitting punishment for her greediness?

If so, then who's the heroine of this movie, anyway?

OK, so I sort of wondered at the title before the movie started, i mean, what, i never new Jersey was considered something like the country, but, go figure. It's the classic boy meets girl, girl wrecks boy's car, boy hates girl, girl falls in love with boy, boy falls in love with girl, girl hates boy, girl falls back in love with boy, and they all live happily ever after, well, we would assume. Overall, it was quite entertaining, i mean, it's not a totally original master piece or anything, but quite entertaining. I liked the fact that Toby (Gertz character)in th end, did not change her whole existent just to be someone she's not,was her own person, and had her own beliefs and the fact that she's not just some girl who went around and changed her whole life for a guy, no matter how rich, handsome or successful he was. And McDermott's character was...really complex, but I guess in a way, they made a cute couple, though the ending with water sprinkling down at them and the sloppy kiss, yeah, maybe they should have cut that scene. But overall, not too bad, a fairly entertaining film.

I loved this movie. Not only did Sal find his place with Toby but Toby did not have to give up her beliefs and her lifestyle. The way Sal looks at Toby is a credit to Jami Gertz and Dylan McDermott on screen chemistry. You can tell from their first date that Sal loves Toby just by the way he does not expect her to change. Sal finally realizes that he never wanted Toby to change, he wanted to change himself. In the end Sal finally admits to himself that he would not be "lowering" himself to be with Toby.

Okay, so Jersey Girl is supposed to be one of those Working Girl/Pretty Woman kind of releases from the burger diners, hoop earings, and thick accents and into a world of high class. Tobey, Jamie Gertz's character is set on changing her lifestyle, preferably by finding herself a man to take her away from it all. Dylan McDermott plays that man. He's the slick corporate guy that Tobey's been looking for. She wrecks his car, gets all obsessive about her alleged destiny man, and boom, you have a love story that ends with a sloppy sewer water kiss. Too bad this love story sucks. I've seen Jamie Gertz in a lot better things, and I hardly think of Dylan McDermott as any kind of a lover, he was just another one of those immature guys who's too superficial to care about anything like Rob Lowe's character in About Last Night... If your looking for a girl who wants to be 'movin' on up' your best bet is Working Girl (moving on up from secretary to boss in the financial district) and Pretty Woman (moving on up from prostitute to the Madame of Rodeo Drive) and those kinds of things. Jersey Girl is just a waste of time. I might've like it if it had some good humor to it, at least, but it wasn't even funny.

The Jersey Girl of 1992 (not to be confused with the Jersey Girl of 2004 — I have seen both) gets kudos for being a warm, funny, and entertaining romantic comedy. As a native New Jerseyan of Italian ancestry who spent the first ten years of his life in Hackensack, however, I had mixed feelings about the film's portrayal of middle class New Jersey culture.

Sometimes they hit the nail on the head and I smiled with nostalgic recognition, as when Toby comes home with a grocery bag with a loaf of Italian bread sticking out of it — that's an everyday Jersey occurrence. Ditto for her apartment above Foschini's bakery and a storefront Italian shop that sold ravioli and Italian sausage. Even the Bendix Diner evoked some nostalgia, but the producers may not have realized it is an anachronism. Most Jersey Diners no longer fit the 1950s stainless steel model — most now have been expanded into Mediterranean-styled restaurants that basically look like Denny's but still have traditional diner food like Taylor Pork Roll sandwiches and home fries.

Most disturbing, though, was the portrayal of working class Jersey females as dumb bimbos who talk like grammar school dropouts and dress like prostitutes. Sure, I saw a few of those types from cities like Newark and Jersey City back in the '60s, but they are a thing of the past. Even urban areas of New Jersey like Hoboken and Jersey City have become too gentrified to reinforce a culture of gum chewing, slutty dressing bimbos. And Hackensack, where the story takes place, has become more affluent in recent years than it was when I grew up there in the 50s. My second grade teacher in Hackensack taught us how to pronounce words correctly, not like the girls in the movie who sound more like they're from Brooklyn.

And where on earth did the writers get the idea that people in New Jersey humbly look to New Yorkers as something to emulate? Most people I grew up with in Bergen County, looked DOWN on New Yorkers, especially the people from "the Boroughs." Maybe the writers should have read the demographics showing New Jersey is perennially tied with Connecticut as number one (or two) in the U.S. in per capita income.

These things didn't affect my enjoyment of the movie. They just made me think that the production staff was composed of typically ignorant and arrogant New Yorkers. You know, those jerks who come over to Jersey and drive below the speed limit in the left lane and refuse to move over as NJ law requires!

The plot for this movie is really awful that I decided to contribute my 2 cents. I think this movie is truly a fantasy movie for the women who grew up in trailers in this country. Which guy in his right mind would actually give up his career that he worked so hard all his life for just for some low-class,broke, uneducated woman that ran into his $70,000 car? Initially, the guy didn't want anything to do with her, but she insisted on calling the guy constantly and following him to the restaurant, which is considered stalking. On top of that, this movie portrayed this woman to be a "sweet, innocent" working class girl from Jersey who is not after his money? Who are they kidding here?

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** Jami Gertz plays Toby Mastallone, a ditzy, unsophistocated young lady From New Jersey, who works at a daycare. She hangs out with her friends, who's names are juvenille and childish, in a funny way, Cookie, Dottie, Star, and Jasper. The funniest parts of the film seem to be at the beggining, where he meets Mr. Wright after wrecking his mercedes! Which cost about 6,000 bucks damage. Sal M. is Mr Wright. Who is the perfect man. He's a sophisticated tradesman. The main reason I watched this film was Joseph Mazzello,I thought it seemed like an interesting role, going against the grain to his trademark. He playes a kid at the nursery, in a yellow shirt and red overalls, but dissapointingly the only screen time he had was in two scences at the very beggining and end of the film, and his only real lines are only at the beggining, where he builds something out of Popsicle sticks, and a girl wrecks it, he gets mad and says something, tries to throw a dinosaur at her, but then he apologizes and becomes friends, when Toby comes to resolve the problem. I can't believe it it was lame that he was billed fourth in the movie. Throughout the first half of the film Sal seems to try to avoid Toby. Later romance gets real serious and there's kissing and nudity, and an emotional situation where her friends finally meet Sal, and they persuade her to quit seeing him, and she feels like an ugly duckling "Jersey Girl" and says the F-Word. There's a happy and hilarious climax result, and Sal seems to give up even his own job for her.

Wow. I was only able to make it through 15 or 20 minutes of this dog before I gave up. Stupid, not funny. Inane is probably the best description for this.

Sooooo....I am a sucker for anything 80s. This movie was sweet and predictable. When the credits rolled, I was a tiny bit disappointed in the time investment. The characters were shallow. The plot was predictable. The wardrobe could have been fab. All in all, a sweet movie. Wouldn't watch again.

This is a film that will make you follow your heart.The acting in this movie was amazing., Jamie Gertz and Dillon McDermott were perfect in this film . I was laughing and crying. which is unusual for me. Even though both Jersey girl movies are good,I never see this one, 1992 on television. There are a few schemes in this that will never forget

This is one of the best romantic dramas. The formula is simple: Man and woman from opposite sides of the track, but the heart displayed by the director and screenwriter, coupled with the great acting, give this movie a compelling and honest vitality that is irresistible. Great performances by Jami Gertz, Joe Bologna, Sheryl Lee and a solid performance by Dylan McDermott are strongly supported by a pacing and dynamic by director David Morris that keeps things unpredictable, yet comprehensible. The acting job done by Toby's three friends was commendable, too. One tactic that helped make this movie so effective was the displays of open-heartedness when we least expect it: a: McDermott's line "I almost forgot to tell you how beautiful you look in that dress", after they had had a big argument and all seemed lost. b: Bologna's dialogue at dinner, with Toby, toward the end of the picture, when he told her how perfect she is and always was, in his eyes. Bologna had me laughing out loud at times. I cheered at the end, when Gertz issued a one-word response to McDermott: "Me." That was perfect. Great soundtrack, too.

Toby (Jami Gertz) is a blue collar class girl in New Jersey with 3 homely loser girlfriends. She wants to change her life. This story gets going when she runs into the car of wealthy New York executive Sal (Dylan McDermott). Before they part she writes her name and number inside a matchbook cover, but he isn't interested for two reasons -- he already has a hot, glamorous girlfriend, and he doesn't find the frumpy Toby at all attractive. But Toby doesn't give up easily. Joseph Bologna is good as Toby's dad, Bennie. There isn't anything particularly new in this plain vanilla romantic comedy, but is a pleasant little movie.

SPOILERS FOLLOW IN REMAINING COMMENTS. Sal has a falling out with his girlfriend and, on a whim, perhaps to get back at her, calls Toby. They have drinks and dinner, talk. Toby has that open, little girl quality about her. They start dating, Sal comes to Toby's house, Bennie "interviews" him, asks things like "How many windows do you have in your office?" "How much do you make a year, is it in the six figures?" The dating gets more serious, they wake up at his place overlooking Central Park, the old girlfriend resurfaces, Toby's three frumpy friends object to her "changes", they confront Sal at his workplace, in the end all reach a compromise, Sal realizes what a genuine girl Toby is.

This movie would have to take the cake for one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I promise that you will become stupider after watching the movie. Unless you have a lot of time on your hands and you can't think of anything else to do, I wouldn't bother seeing this mindless flick.

It might have been nice if this had been a romantic comedy, but it wasn't funny at all, and pretty much just lame - Jamie Gertz/Toby is basically this stalker that goes after Sal/Dylan McDermont. The wholemovie leads you to believe that anyone that lives in Jersey is just anobody that needs a man to make life better while working dead-end jobsand not being able to make anything of themselves. This movie may have been made in 1993, but the girls in it all dress like the 80s with crazy bangles and big hair, and Jamie Gertz's accent made me want to slap someone. The only thing memorable about this movie is that it made me not want to remember it at all - I wish I could take back the amount of time I spent watching it and go watch something else ...