Reception
The film "bombed" at the box office, making only $25.2 million domestic and $10.8 million overseas against a $35 million dollar budget and a $15 million dollar marketing campaign.
Critical response was mixed, with some critics panning it as formulaic, though some critics (including Roger Ebert) commended Kevin Smith for trying different things in his film career. Rotten Tomatoes review aggregator yielded a verdict of rotten, with 41% of critics giving positive reviews, summarizing the consensus as, "Full of cloyingly sentimental cliches." Smith was quoted saying his film was "not for critics".
The film was nominated for three Razzie Awards. Worst Actor for Ben Affleck, Worst Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lopez, and according to the press release, "Ben Affleck & EITHER Jennifer Lopez OR Liv Tyler" for Worst On-Screen Couple. Raquel Castro won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actress Age Ten or Younger for her performance and the film was nominated for Best Family Feature Film - Comedy or Musical losing to Christmas with the Kranks
Kevin Smith's reaction to Jersey Girl after its failure was dour. Smith references this film during his cameo appearance in Degrassi: The Next Generation; He jokingly tells Paige Michalchuk, who he cut out of his fictional film Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh!, that he cut Lopez out of half of Jersey Girl and wanted to cut Affleck out too "but then it just would have been that little kid". In an interview from the Clerks II DVD, Smith noted "All these people were just trashing this movie's stars instead of looking at the movie itself. I get that a lot of people didn't like it but dude, I spent two years of my life on that movie."
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